Meetup Quickstart

Setup Application

Visit the Meetup OAuth Consumer page at https://secure.meetup.com/meetup_api/oauth_consumers/ and create a new consumer. Put in http://localhost:5000/login/meetup/authorized for the redirect URI. Agree to the terms of service, and register your consumer to get an OAuth key and secret.

Code

from flask import Flask, redirect, url_for
from flask_dance.contrib.meetup import make_meetup_blueprint, meetup

app = Flask(__name__)
app.secret_key = "supersekrit"
blueprint = make_meetup_blueprint(
    key="my-key-here",
    secret="my-secret-here",
)
app.register_blueprint(blueprint, url_prefix="/login")

@app.route("/")
def index():
    if not meetup.authorized:
        return redirect(url_for("meetup.login"))
    resp = meetup.get("member/self")
    assert resp.ok
    return "You are {name} on Meetup".format(name=resp.json()["name"])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()

Note

You must replace my-key-here and my-secret-here with the client ID and client secret that you got from your Meetup application.

Note

If you are running this code on Heroku, you’ll need to use the werkzeug.contrib.fixers.ProxyFix middleware. See Proxies and HTTPS.

When you run this code locally, you must set the OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT environment variable for it to work. For example, if you put this code in a file named meetup.py, you could run:

$ export OAUTHLIB_RELAX_TOKEN_SCOPE=1
$ python meetup.py

Visit localhost:5000 in your browser, and you should start the OAuth dance immediately.

Warning

Do NOT set OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT in production. Setting this variable allows you to use insecure http for OAuth communication. However, for security, all OAuth interactions must occur over secure https when running in production.

Explanation

This code makes a blueprint that implements the views necessary to be a consumer in the OAuth dance. The blueprint has two views: /meetup, which is the view that the user visits to begin the OAuth dance, and /meetup/authorized, which is the view that the user is redirected to at the end of the OAuth dance. Because we set the url_prefix to be /login, the end result is that the views are at /login/meetup and /login/meetup/authorized. The second view is the “redirect URI” that you must tell Meetup about when you create the app.

The meetup variable is a requests.Session instance, which will be be preloaded with the user’s access token once the user has gone through the OAuth dance. You can check the meetup.authorized boolean to determine if the access token is loaded. Whether the access token is loaded or not, you can use all the normal requests methods, like get() and post(), to make HTTP requests. If you only specify the path component of the URL, the domain will default to https://api.meetup.com.