Pydata London Meetup Ballot

Used to select members for the next meetup.

Installation

• Create a virtualenv
• Install Requirements

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

• Following environment variables needs to be set:

• MEETUP_KEY (Meetup.com API Access Token)
• MEETUP_URLNAME (e.g.: PyData-London-Meetup)
• MAX_RSVPS (e.g. 200)
• RSVP_BEFORE_DAYS (Number of days before which RSVP should start)
• TRAVIS_EVENT_TYPE (If the script is running on travis)
• MANUAL_BALLOT_TRIGGER (If the script is manually triggered)

Getting the Access Token

• Login to https://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/, and create an OAuth Consumer, with redirect_uri as let say https://www.google.com.
• Go to the site: https://secure.meetup.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=CONSUMER_KEY&response_type=token&redirect_uri=https://www.google.com in your browser (replacing CONSUMER_KEY with your own consumer key).
• Grant it access to your meetup.com account.
• It will redirect you to https://www.google.com, with an access token embedded within the URL. It's not using google.com for anything, it's just needs a site to redirect to.
• Look at the new URL in the search bar, and grab the access_token property.

An access token will usually expire after an hour.

Thanks to https://github.com/simonbrownsb/meetupdata for figuring out the above method.

Usage Example

PYTHONPATH='.' python meetup_ballot/ballot.py

Ballot Runner Cron

The ballot runs via Travis' cron which is scheduled for everyday, which checks if the next event is within environment variable RSVP_BEFORE_DAYS days. If that evaluates to True then it runs the ballot.

NOTE: The ballot will run if it runs via Travis cron or build is manually triggered and the MANUAL_BALLOT_TRIGGER environment variable is set to True.

Testing

• Running Tests

$ pytest

Contributing

• Feel free to suggest changes via Pull requests.