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POUsing Meetup Stream in PHP to import new events
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The meetup API allows you to get pushed data updates. A <code>CURL</code> request that looks as followed: <pre><code>http://stream.meetup.com/2/open_events </code></pre> Will return a constant stream of updated events. This imported stream just keeps updating as new data is pushed to it. I am trying to think up the best way to work with this stream, and I am not sure what is standard. I was thinking to just run a <code>CURL</code> request within a while loop but that would just run forever and running that from a controller function in my codeigniter project seems impractical. What is the proper way to interface with a seemingly infinite stream of events like this? Is there a better way than running a process from a controller function? Would it be more sensible to run a chron-job that woke up every so often to continue processing from where it left off before? UPDATE: Further investigation has shown me that importing data from this stream uses chunked-transfer encoding. What is confusing to me is that this stream seems to be infinite. It just keeps outputting data non-stop. I still do not understand how to import data from a stream of data like this. A cron job also does not seem to be the answer for importing a stream like this into my mysql database. This is a link to the resource that documents the Meetup Stream: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/docs/stream/2/open_events/" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/docs/stream/2/open_events/</a> Thank you for the help.
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