Search Members by name

[Kushal Shah]

Hi

Sorry, I am new to Meetup API and if this question has been covered.

Is there a way to search for a member based on his name? It seems you can get to member only using his Id and I don't know how to get Id of a person using his name currently.

Thanks,

Kushal.

[Doug Tangren]

A general search by member name is not support in the API or the site. There is limited support for member profiles on groups pages. That support is not yet in the API.

 

Thanks,

Kushal.

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[Matthew Weir]

IDs can be retrieved with member names via 2/members API.  You have to grab all the data and create your own filtering, but once you have that data you can search via a name. I'm sure there's ways to do this in many scripting languages.
A Flex example would be putting the results from the API into an ArrayCollection. 

<mx:TextInput id="searchText" change="onSearchTextChange()"/>
private function onSearchTextChange():void
{
      MemberAC.filterFunction = nameFilterFunction;
      MemberAC.refresh();
}

private function nameFilterFunction(item:object):Boolean
{
     if(item.name.toLowerCase() == searchText.text.toLowerCase())
     {  
        return true; 
     }
     return false;

[Joe Lippeatt]

Right. Just keep in mind you can have more than one member with the same name.   Working from member IDs is always safest, especially if the next step is adding/removing them from events or kicking them out. 

Thanks!

Joe

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[Kushal Shah]

Actually, let me clarify the question. I just have the name of the person. Not the groups he is part of. /2/Members API seems to be asking for the GroupId, correct? How do I avoid that?

Thanks,

Kushal.

[Doug Tangren]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Kushal Shah <kusha...@gmail.com> wrote:

Actually, let me clarify the question. I just have the name of the person. Not the groups he is part of. /2/Members API seems to be asking for the GroupId, correct? How do I avoid that?

We don't support searches by member name in the API or on meetup.com. You would have to know at the very least what group they may be in.