pull meetup and other events into db

[joekr]

It would be awesome if we could poll (daily?) for new meetup events and write them to the DB. This would allow us to later 1) build a simple API to view the events on the BDG's website as well as 2) post them into their relevant slack channels.

Meetup API

There is a https://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/ but not sure how well it works. Most specifically get group events: https://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/docs/:urlname/events/#list. You can try it out here: https://secure.meetup.com/meetup_api/console/?path=/:urlname/events set the urlname param to lex_py

DB scheme

I think the basic DB scheme could be:

• event_id - string - unique
• host - string - unique (example lex_py)
• data - json
• created_at - timestamp