Get Meetup categories

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Discover category names and identifiers for event and group search filters.

GET/v1/meetup/categoriesx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Response fields

requestIdstring

Always included.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

Always included.

statusenum

Always included.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

Always included.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

Current source category identifiers and names, usable with category_id in search.

up to 100 items

categories.idstring

Always included.

categories.namestring

Always included.

min 1 chars · max 200 chars

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Usable page data with explicit coverage warnings.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid service key.
403	`restricted`	Private group or restricted parent group.
404	`not_found`	Missing resource.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Source throttled retrieval.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Source challenged logged-out access.
502	`unsupported_page`	Missing, malformed or mismatched structured data.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex`	Byte, node or depth limit exceeded.
502	`unsafe_redirect` `request_limit` `upstream_error`	Bounded retrieval failed.
503	`busy`	All slots are occupied.
504	`timeout`	Deadline expired.
404	`member_not_on_page`	Member was not found in the supported public records on this page; account existence is unknown.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/meetup/categories" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/meetup/categories",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/meetup/categories",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Meetup request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/meetup/categories",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={},
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/meetup/categories", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/meetup/categories"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/find/?source=EVENTS&location=us--new-york",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_page",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 120000,
    "durationMs": 500
  },
  "categories": [
    {
      "id": "546",
      "name": "Technology"
    }
  ]
}

Missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}