Meetups to Slack

Number of APIs: 11

Pipe upcoming meetup events to a Slack notification.

Web-viewable collection documentation is published here.

1. Get upcoming meetups related to keyword Qodex.
2. Send a message about any upcoming meetups via a Slack webhook. Instead of Slack, this step can be customized to your specific chat or notification platform.
3. Update your environment to store the state of all the previous meetups. This step is especially useful when scheduling periodic checks for new events.

Get Started

To run the requests in the first folder, update the following required environment variables.

To run the requests in the second folder, update the required environment variables.

Run the collection

• Collection runner: To run the collection one time, use the Qodex collection runner.
• Automated collection runs: To run the collection on a scheduled frequency, use a Qodex monitor or use Qodex's command line tool Newman with a cron job.

1. Find Qodex meetups - Find meetup group details GET {{rootUrl}}/:urlname

2. Find Qodex meetups - Post to slack POST {{slackWebhook}}

3. Persist environment variables - All Environments GET https://api.getpostman.com/environments

4. Other helper requests - See categories GET {{rootUrl}}/2/categories?key={{meetupKey}}

5. Other helper requests - See cities GET {{rootUrl}}/2/cities?key={{meetupKey}}&country=FR&lat=48.8566&lon=2.3522&radius=6

6. Other helper requests - Find groups GET {{rootUrl}}/topics?search=lgbt&only=id,name&key={{meetupKey}}

7. Other helper requests - Find topics GET {{rootUrl}}/find/topics?key={{meetupKey}}&query=dogs

8. Persist environment variables - Single Environment GET https://api.getpostman.com/environments/{{environment_uid}}

9. Find Qodex meetups - Find upcoming events related to Qodex GET {{rootUrl}}/find/upcoming_events?key={{meetupKey}}&start_date_range={{startDate}}&end_date_range={{endDate}}&text=Postman&radius=global&topic_category=292

10. Persist environment variables - Update Environment PUT https://api.getpostman.com/environments/{{environment_uid}}