MeetupPS

PowerShell module to interact with the Meetup.com API

Contribute

Contributions are welcome by using pull request and issues.

Table of Contents

• Install the module
• Configure connection
• Authentication
• Get Meetup Group Information
• Get Meetup Group's events Information
  • Get upcoming events
  • Get past events
• Create Meetup Event
• API Permission scopes
• Resources

Install

Install the module from the PowerShell Gallery.

Install-Module -Name MeetupPS

Configure connection

Follow the following steps to request a Oauth Key/Secret. Fortunately you only need to do this once.

Register a new Oauth Consumer on the Meetup API Oauth Consumer portal

• Consumer Name Provide a name for your Oauth Consumer
• Application Website Here I used https://github.com/lazywinadmin/MeetupPS
• Redirect URI Here I used https://github.com/lazywinadmin/MeetupPS
• Agree with terms

Once the Oauth Consumer is created, copy the Key and the Secret. This will be used to authenticate against the API

Connecting to the Meetup.com API

# Connect against Meetup.com API
$Key = '<Your Oauth Consumer Key>'
$Secret = '<Your Oauth Consumer Secret>'
Set-MeetupConfiguration -ClientID $Key -Secret $Secret

Note: This will leverage two private functions of the module:

• Get-OauthCode
• Get-OauthAccessToken

This will then prompt you to connect to Meetup.

Get Group information

Retrieve a Meetup group information

Get-MeetupGroup -Groupname FrenchPSUG

Get Events information

Upcoming events

Retrieve upcoming event(s) for a Meetup group

Get-MeetupEvent -Groupname FrenchPSUG -status upcoming

Past events

Retrieve past event(s) for a Meetup group

Get-MeetupEvent -GroupName FrenchPSUG -status past -page 2

Get-MeetupEvent -GroupName FrenchPSUG -status past |
Format-List -property Name,local_date,link, yes_rsvp_count

Create Event

New-MeetupEvent `
    -GroupName FrenchPSUG `
    -Title 'New Event from MeetupPS' `
    -Time '2018/06/01 3:00pm' `
    -Description "PowerShell WorkShop<br><br>In this session we'll talk about ..." `
    -PublishStatus draft

Here is the event created in Meetup

API permission scopes

The API permission scopes are set when the authentication occur in Get-OAuthAccessToken.

Currently it is requesting the following permission scopes: basic,reporting, event_management

More permission scopes are available here: https://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/auth/#oauth2-scopes

You can take a look a the header passed to the API here:

$Headers = @{
    'X-OAuth-Scopes'          = "basic", "reporting", "event_management"
    'X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes' = "basic", "reporting", "event_management"
}

See this line: Header of Get-OauthAccessToken

Resources

• Meetup API Documentation