ANNOUNCING: Member Edit API

[Doug Tangren]

If you've ever wanted to do more with your member profile on Meetup using the API  than  just changing your profile photo, today you can do much more. We are making available a new API for editing most of the properties of your own profile, http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/docs/2/member/#edit. 

Why is this useful?

You can make recommendations on the site more accurate by supplying a city and a more specific lat, lon. With these, we can plot you closer to events you may want to attend than we could with just the city's general lat and lon.

If you've ever gotten a curious gender-specific recommendation that doesn't quite suit you, you can remedy the situation by assigning your gender using the API. 

You can change all of these and more, right from curl. Check it out.

Just a quick reminder about the "self" alias in the api, http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/docs/#self, you can substitute the path element for the member id with "self" in this api: i.e. 

curl -X POST http://api.meetup.com/2/member/self

Doug Tangren
Meetup
API Team