Merge pull request #21 from bcsnipes/v3

Update get_meetup_events() for Meetup v3 api, replace ids with urls

app.py

@@ -34,17 +34,32 @@ def get_group_lists():
 
 # Takes list of groups and makes API call to Meetup.com to get event details. Returns list.
 def get_meetup_events(group_list):
- group_ids = [i['field_events_api_key'] for i in group_list]
- group_ids_str = ','.join(str(group_id) for group_id in group_ids)
+ # Extract https:www.meetup.com/'groupName' from each item in group_list
+ group_urls = [i['field_event_calendar_homepage'] for i in group_list]
+ # Create empty list to be returned by the function
+ all_events = []
+ for url in group_urls:
+ url = url.replace('www', 'api')
+ # Urls are currently written as: https:www.meetup.com/'groupname', but random urls return as https:www.meetup.com/'groupname'/events.
+ # To avoid 404 errors, we need to strip the trailing 'events/', if it exists, before appending the api request url
+ if url.endswith('events/'):
+ url = url.rstrip('/')
+ url += "?&sign=true&photo-host=public&page=20"
+ else:
+ url += "events?&sign=true&photo-host=public&page=20"
+ r = requests.get(url)
+ if r.status_code != 200:
+ raise Exception('Could not connect to Meetup API at {}. Status Code: {}'.format(url, r.status_code))
 
- # find all upcoming OR cancelled, including "limited" visibility events, for all the group IDs for Meetup.com
- url = 'https://api.meetup.com/2/events?status=upcoming,cancelled&limited_events=true&group_id={ids}'.format(ids=group_ids_str)
+  # Returns one JSON object for each Meetup group, with events nested in the single JSON object
+  data = json.loads(r.text)
 
- r = requests.get(url)
- if r.status_code != 200:
- raise Exception('Could not connect to Meetup API at {}. Status Code: {}'.format(url, r.status_code))
- data = json.loads(r.text)
- return data['results']
+ # Extract each event
+ for event in data:
+ # Append individual events to list
+ all_events.append(event)
+
+ return all_events
 
 
 # Takes list of events from Meetup and returns formatted list of events