Find Meetup locations

Try in Playground

Look up places and retrieve location slugs, coordinates, country, region and timezone for Meetup searches.

GET/v1/meetup/locationsx-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

querystringrequiredquery

Location name to look up, 1–200 characters.

min 1 chars · max 200 chars

ExampleLondon

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.

Matching places with coordinates, country, region, timezone, postal code and a search location slug.

up to 100 items

locations.citystringnullable

Always included.

locations.countrystring

Always included.

locations.latnumber

Always included.

-90 – 90

locations.lonnumber

Always included.

-180 – 180

locations.namestring

Always included.

locations.statestringnullable

Always included.

locations.timeZonestringnullable

Always included.

locations.boroughstringnullable

Always included.

locations.localizedCountryNamestringnullable

Always included.

locations.neighborhoodstringnullable

Always included.

locations.zipstringnullable

Always included.

locations.locationstringnullable

Always included.

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/locations?query=London" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/meetup/locations?query=London",
  {
    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/locations?query=London",
  {
    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/locations",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "query": "London"
    },
    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/locations?query=London", 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/locations?query=London"))
            .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/gql2",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_page",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 120000,
    "durationMs": 500
  },
  "locations": [
    {
      "city": "Example",
      "country": "us",
      "lat": 40,
      "lon": -74,
      "name": "Example, NY",
      "state": "NY",
      "timeZone": "America/New_York",
      "borough": null,
      "localizedCountryName": "United States",
      "neighborhood": null,
      "zip": "10001",
      "location": "us--ny--example"
    }
  ]
}

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."
  }
}