Replication Package for paper Analyzing Offline Social Engagements: An Empirical Study of Meetup Events Related to Software Development

Labelled event Data is present in folder Labelled_data

A set of scripts which can help to download public data from Meetup for a specific topic using their RESTful API. https://www.meetup.com/api/guide/#graphQl-guide is not supported

Used for data collection for above paper

• Get authorization tokens' from Meetup RESTful API
• Store tokens' as json file in the format mentioned in MeetupKeysOAUTH.json

• install python3.6

• run source ./setupvenv.sh

• run below from command line with the flag values based on your machine

  • Format

            python get_data_json.py \
                  -datafol <folderpath where data needs to be stored> \
                  -top <name of of the topic whose data is to be downloaded> \
                  -G <flag to indicate if group data needs to be downloaded> \
                  -E <flag to indicate if event data needs to be downloaded> \
                  -M <flag to indicate if member data needs to be downloaded> \
                  -cfgfol <folder where config file containing meetup api keys is present> \
                  -cfgfile <name of config file which contains meetup api keys> \
                  -cat <Category name of of the topic whose data is to be downloaded> (optional)
    

    • Example (cat mentioned)

       python get_data_as_json.py \
              -datafol $PWD/data/ \
              -cfgfile MeetupKeys3.json \
              -top quantum-algorithms \
              -G True -E True -M True\
              -cat Tech
      

    • Example (cat not mentioned)

       python get_data_as_json.py \
              -datafol $PWD/data/ \
              -cfgfile MeetupKeys3.json \
              -top quantum-algorithms \
              -G True -E True -M True\
      

• copy file name in the format id_None_Groups.csv or id1_id2_Groups.csv that shouldbe present at below path in datafol location specified in earlier step

   -  `$PWD/data/Data/Groups/`
  

• run the below command with flags specified

  • Format

          python get_data_json.py \
                -datafol <folderpath where data needs to be stored> \
                -top <name of of the topic whose data is to be downloaded> \
                -grpfilename <name of  file found in previous step
    

  • Example (cat mentioned)

           python convert_join_data.py \
              -datafol $PWD/data/ \
              -grpfilename 0_34_Groups.csv \
              -top quantum-algorithms\
              -cat Tech\
    

  • Example (cat not mentioned)

          python convert_join_data.py \
              -datafol $PWD/data/ \
              -grpfilename 0_None_Groups.csv \
              -top quantum-algorithms \