Re: [meetup-api] retrieve emails address with "GET /2/members"

[mike castleman]

hi Simone,

Meetup usually does not expose our members' email addresses, either on
the site or through the API. The only exception, as documented on the
/2/members documentation at
http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/docs/2/members/ is if you are the
founder of a Meetup Everywhere community and the member has explicitly
chosen to share their email address.

Hope this helps,
mlc

On 04/21/2013 07:54 PM, Simone Falsini wrote:
> I'm trying to get Member's email address with a url like that:
>
> https://api.meetup.com/2/members?key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&sign=true&group_id=206824&fields=email&page=1
>
> i'm using the key of the meetup Organizzer but I can't retrieve the
> email field of any users.
>
> what is wrong?
>
> Best Regards
> Simone

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mike castleman
android developer, meetup
mailto:m...@meetup.com

[Dimitri Fischler]

First question: are there any plans to change that policy soon? IMHO, it would make sense to allow the founder/organizer of any meetup to retrieve participants' email addresses.

Second question: do members of a Meetup Everywhere community share their email address by default, or the opposite? I'm guessing it's the latter. Just want to make sure.

[Doug Tangren]

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Dimitri Fischler <dimf...@gmail.com> wrote:

First question: are there any plans to change that policy soon? IMHO, it would make sense to allow the founder/organizer of any meetup to retrieve participants' email addresses.

We would rather you use organizer feature the on the site to send members emails than expose our members email addresses which you could keep and do anything with. Having the ability to collection email addresses may seem like a nice feature for organizers but not all organizers are good Meetup citizens. Some organizers may use this feature to collect email addresses for spam use. We want to avoid that situation as it would impact our member's trust when signing up for our service.

Ultimately it's up to your member's to determine if they want to give out their email addresses.

 

Second question: do members of a Meetup Everywhere community share their email address by default, or the opposite? I'm guessing it's the latter. Just want to make sure.

Members must opt in.

 

 

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 1:18:58 AM UTC+3, Mike Castleman wrote:

hi Simone,

Meetup usually does not expose our members' email addresses, either on
the site or through the API. The only exception, as documented on the
/2/members documentation at
http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/docs/2/members/ is if you are the
founder of a Meetup Everywhere community and the member has explicitly
chosen to share their email address.

Hope this helps,
mlc

On 04/21/2013 07:54 PM, Simone Falsini wrote:
> I'm trying to get Member's email address with a url like that:
>
> https://api.meetup.com/2/members?key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&sign=true&group_id=206824&fields=email&page=1
>
> i'm using the key of the meetup Organizzer but I can't retrieve the
> email field of any users.
>
> what is wrong?
>
> Best Regards
> Simone

--
mike castleman
android developer, meetup

mailto:m...@meetup.com

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