must.js

Pipe community into your browser with the Meetup Streaming API

Install

Using bower

bower install must

This will unpack must.js into your bowers components directory.

Usage

This client provides a interface for both websocket and long-polling protocols. You supply a callback function to respond to the json, and any parameters you want to be included. For example, to alert with the member_id for every RSVP in the event "1234":

Streaming

After loading you can start streaming meetup data

RSVPs

  must.Rsvps(function(json) {
      alert(json.member.member_id);
  }, { event_id: 1234 });

Comments

 must.Comments(function(json) {
    alert(json.comment);
 });

Photos

must.Photos(function(json){
  alert(json.highres_link);
});

Checkins

must.Checkins(function(json) {
  alert(json.member.member_name);
}, {
  event_id: 1234
});

Stopping stream

If you ever wish to stop the cycle of callbacks, call stop() on the object returned by a streams creation.

  stream.stop();

To restart the stream, create a new one with the function above.

Rate limitations

The Meetup stream api allows up to 10 concurrent connections from the same client IP.

This client requires jQuery 1.4 or higher.

Example

An example is provided. Install its depdendencies with

bower install sassquatch jquery

Then open index.html in your browser

Meetup 2013