How to get next event date and time

[Mark Wiltshire]

Hi all, 

I am trying to use the meetup api to get the next event date and time?

I have a html (twitter bootstrap) website and want to dynamically pull in the next event details to our website.

Here is our website -> http://www.londonpublicspeakers.co.uk

Here is our meetup group -> http://www.meetup.com/LondonToastmasters/

I cannot see in the API docs how to do this ?

is this even possible ?

My aim is not to have to manually update the date on our website, but use the API to automatically get the NEXT event Date and Time, 

so In future we only ever have to update the Meetup, then the website gets the next event date and time for us :-)

hope that makes sense, any ideas on how I can do this

Many thanks

Mark

[Doug Tangren]

Hi Mark,

You can get some basic information about the next event using the the get group api

http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/docs/:urlname#get

You can replace :urlname with the urlname for your group

Here's an example of that the response would like like with requesting next_event in the fields parameter

https://secure.meetup.com/meetup_api/console/?path=/:urlname&:urlname=LondonToastmasters&fields=next_event

 

There's an open ticket which should add the time of the event in addition to the the event's id and name. That should go live soon. If you want to full event details you, you take the event id from the groups next_event field to fetch it using http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/docs/2/event/#get

It was recently suggested that we support a simpler flow for fetching the next event details for a given group. This would probably help your use case here.

Many thanks

Mark

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