In this recipe, we see how to get data from the console and how R scripts are used.
- Download information about Meetup groups that satisfy certain criteria. http://www.meetup.com allows you to download data from their Console by filling up fields to define your criteria. Alternately, you can also construct a suitable URL to directly get the data. The former approach has some limitations when downloading large volumes of data.
- In this recipe, we first show you how to get data from the console. We then show you how to use R scripts that use URLs for larger data volumes. We will first get a list of groups. Use your browser to visit http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/. Click on Console and then click on the first link under v2 groups ...
