PR to rubyconferences.org

[Adarsh Pandit]

Hi friends:

Here's Marco's PR to rubyconferences.org to add upcoming meetup data. It's a nice first step, I welcome input from this group!

https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github.io/pull/602

Best,

Adarsh

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[Eric A]

Looks like a great first pass.

Long term having to maintain the data of individual meetups would seem to not be sustainable. Since a lot of these sorts of things are organized on common platforms (Meetup, Eventbrite, etc) seems like it could just feed from those instead of being maintained in a repo. We have a local collective called HackGreenville that does this to aggregate info from all the different tech groups on our calendar and events page as an example. Our code, although PHP, is open to crib from if you want to take a look at our Meetup.com and Eventbrite data pulls.

Eric

[Peter Cai (Boston Ruby Group)]

Thanks Eric, that's really helpful to see especially since meetup unpublished their rest API docs. Are you on meetup pro? It looks like API access is gated to the higher paying meetup tier, at least from their docs

[Eric A]

I'm not directly involved in the code but my understanding is that the old (now undocumented) REST API does not require a pro account but if you want to use the newer GraphQL feed then you do have to have a pro account. How long will the REST API last? Who knows. But feel free to crib from our code on how to pull from it for as long as it does keep working.

Eric