Import Meetup API -Meteor

[rochlaw]

Hi Guys,
Currently new to meteor and working on my first project, creating a simple checkin app, how do I
1.Get a list of attendees for an event from the meetup.com API
2. Import that list into the Meteor application

A list of the steps to approach it would be great.
Thanks much

[robfallows]

This may give you some pointers on talking to REST endpoints if you want to get a good grounding in using HTTP in Meteor:

How to Insert json data from an api into a Collection

A fairly typical, basic pattern for a JSON endpoint is to do something like this on the server: Meteor.startup(() => { function getData() { try { const result = HTTP.get(url, headers); result.data.forEach(doc => { myCollection.insert(doc); }); } catch (err) { throw new Meteor.Error('oops', 'something bad happened'); } Meteor.setTimeout(getData, 60000); } getData(); }); However, this pattern will need work to deal with lots of things, incl…

Alternatively, there are some NPM libraries for meetup, which may be worth looking at.

You will also need to authenticate with the meetup Oauth service. There is a meteor package for this.