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Duplicate Events in Some Recurring Events Imported from the Meetup GraphQL API #411

Open allella opened 1 month ago

allella commented 1 month ago

It seems like Meetup provides two different URLs, one numeric and one alphanumeric, for the same event and this may be contributing to duplicates in the Events API.

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This issue existed before the events were cancelled due to Helene.

DC 864 Example https://www.meetup.com/defcon864/events/303412652 https://www.meetup.com/defcon864/events/nslwmtygcnbfb

Code With The Carolinas Example https://www.meetup.com/codewiththecarolinas/events/kwghntygcnbvb https://www.meetup.com/codewiththecarolinas/events/303664634

These events are part of a recurring setup, as seen in the recurring date series on the event pages. image

allella commented 1 day ago

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allella commented 1 day ago

I was looking at the Event GraphQL spec and saw a "token" field that says "Calculated identifier for an autoscheduled event".

Since our issue seems to be on auto-scheduled / recurrent events, I wondered if that field is useful to working around the issue.

Matt is looking into it, but it looks promising.