Fetch RSVPs from Meetup for further processing

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 06:26:45 +0000

I’m running a couple of demos on how and why to use AWS Athena on a Meetup event tonight here at my hometown of Valencia. Before you start arguing about AWS services being closed source, note that Athena is “just” an hosted version of Apache Hive. Like pretty much every AWS service is a hosted version of a famous FOSS project.
One of the demos is about fetching the RSVP list and process it from a JSON source to a basic \t separated text file to be further read by Athena.
First thing is to get your Meetup API key in order to interact with Meetup’s API. Once done, you can proceed using, for example, curl:

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Fetch RSVPs from Meetup for further processing