Meetup to WordPress Poster

If you follow our blog a lot, you may have noticed that for the last few months the weekly schedule post has a) been more reliably on time and b) been pretty regularly formatted.

Creating the weekly schedule post used to be a very manual task, requiring someone to go through the meetup listings and write the entire post by hand. This was error-prone, time consuming, and on more than one occasion resulted in late or no schedule being posted. That really sucked for people who were interested in events that occurred early in the week.

There’s no good reason for this. Meetup has a well developed API, and our blog runs on wordpress which has a great API too.

To that end we automated it: for the last couple months the schedule has been posted with mwp, a meetup-to-wordpress crossposter designed to post the coming week’s schedule to a wordpress blog.

We figure there’s a chance other people might have the same use case, so we invite you to give it a try, file issues against it, and contribute code to it. Happy hacking.