Meetup's legacy REST endpoints are retired — /find/upcoming_events returns 404 — and the current GraphQL API is gated behind a Meetup Pro subscription, which Meetup lists from $55 per group per month and states does not guarantee approval. Their $29.99/month Standard organizer plan does not include API access at all. If you want programmatic access to local community events and you are not running Meetup groups yourself, that is an awkward door to walk through.
Meetup owns first-party supply that exists nowhere else and that no aggregator can replicate: recurring tech, hobby and social groups that never touch a ticketing feed, with live RSVP counts, organizer identity and the group-membership graph. That is originated data — any aggregator can only mirror it, always later and always more thinly. Their API also writes: you can create and announce events into Meetup and reach that audience directly. Nothing here competes with that.
For read access to local community events at a published, self-serve price. $29.99/month flat, not per group; a key you mint yourself in the dashboard rather than an approval queue; and coverage drawn from thousands of sources — farmers markets, library programmes, brewery gigs, civic meetings — rather than one platform's groups.
Community events near a city, excluding the ticketing platforms
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer vn_live_..." \
"https://venunite.com/v1/events?city=Austin&exclude_aggregators=true&limit=50"No. This is a separate dataset with its own $29.99/month subscription, billed once rather than per group, and the key is self-serve.
No. Meetup's group data is first-party to Meetup and available through their GraphQL API under their terms. This feed covers publicly listed events from other sources, which is a different and largely non-overlapping set.
For Meetup's own data, their GraphQL API at /gql-ext, which needs Meetup Pro. For local community events generally, this feed — but be clear about which you actually need, because they are not substitutes for one another.
60 requests/minute, up to 100 events per page, keyset pagination, OpenAPI 3.1 spec. Your key also works as an MCP connector.