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API driven Meetup widgets

Meetup API Widget Foundry, Source Repository

This is the repository that drives our Widget Foundry.

To test widgets locally, you'll need to create a file called api_key.js in your checked out directory of the repository. In that file, assign your API key to a global variable:

$api_key = "my-api-key-goes-here"

The key is only used for local testing. When a widget is published to the foundry, its request urls will be signed for whichever user is logged in.

With a key file in place you should be able to preview any of the widget HTML sources in a browser, especially the ones with "live" in their filename as they have been tested and are live on our site. (For new widgets, please leave "live" out of the name; we'll add that after it's tested.)

To try out your widget inside the foundry, paste it over the source of any other widget there; just click on its Edit Source link. And when you're finished, send us a pull request!

For any questions about using the foundry or the Meetup API in general, see the the API list.

widgets's Issues

Insecure stylesheet and script

This issue is the same as the one reported here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/meetup-api/4gki83Icrjo

Mixed Content: The page at 'https://api.meetup.com/widget?p_width=680&p_urlname=Bucharest-Java-User-Gro…+Group+Stats&sig_id=139593502&sig=e852710f2ad1e000fe9bcd22411feeef494f59d2' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure stylesheet 'http://static2.meetupstatic.com/style/widget.css'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.

The same happens with jquery.min.js:

Mixed Content: The page at 'https://api.meetup.com/widget?p_width=680&p_urlname=Bucharest-Java-User-Gro…+Group+Stats&sig_id=139593502&sig=e852710f2ad1e000fe9bcd22411feeef494f59d2' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure script 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
widget?p_width=680&p_urlname=Bucharest-Java-User-Group&head=62c4a5d4f8cdc15b3e8064f03129a6e9310eb83…:22

Thanks!

Editable Widget auto-hides Join button and Event title

Is the code for the "Standard" Meetup Group Stats option available somewhere?

I'd love to create a Standard widget that is skinned with different colors, but when I chose the editable option on the Foundry and create a widget, it's behavior is different. It auto-hides elements that the Standard one does not. Not sure if that is intended or not.

Widget foundry is dead, long live widget foundry

Any ideas what has happened to https://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/foundry/ ?

Contribution: simple JS widget

Don't know how to put this in Git and make a pull request, but I spent a few hours putting a new Javascript widget together today and hope it's useful to share with you:

http://jsbin.com/ojevos/4/edit#html

Also as a Gist, which has a Git repo apparently: https://gist.github.com/3040924

The main part of the code is a 'date/time formatting' library which I used in-line because I couldn't find a reliable CDN or hosted version. My actual widget is toward the end and is only a few lines. It's meant as a straightforward way of getting the next N events from a specific meetup and showing compact details encouraging a click-through to the main site for more. It's simple, unstyled and should fit anywhere. I've made it self-contained since I need it to work in a 'paste your HTML/widget code here' in a CMS.

This code could be used as a base for a 'Widget foundry' where you select which of the JSON object attributes you want to display in what format and it generates the code for you. That's what I was looking for and found nothing like it in the current list.

Hopefully someone may find this useful.