Change your profile photo for all meetup groups

README.md

I haven't found a way to set your main profile photo on meetup.com such that it overrides any old photos you have set in individual groups. This script will do just that — set your group specific profile photo to your main photo for every group you're in.

Here's what to do:

1. Go to your main profile page: http://www.meetup.com/profile/
2. Ensure you've set your main profile photo to the photo you want to use in all your groups.
3. Open your browser's developer tools (often F12 on Windows, cmd+opt+i on macOS), copy the following code, paste it in the Console tab, and press enter:

(async function() {
  var imageSrc = document.querySelector('#member-profile-photo img').getAttribute('src')
  var match = /member_(\d+)\./.exec(imageSrc)
  if (!match) {
    console.error(`Couldn't find your photo ID! Are you on https://www.meetup.com/profile ?`)
    return
  }
  var imageId = match[1]

  var groups = new Set()
  Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[data-chapterid]'))
    .map(el => el.getAttribute('data-chapterid'))
    .forEach(groups.add.bind(groups))

  for (var groupId of [...groups]) {
    console.log(`Changing profile photo for ${groupId}`)
    try {
      await $.post('https://www.meetup.com/api/', {
        method: 'makeGroupProfilePhoto',
        arg_member: '56746842',
        arg_chapter: groupId,
        arg_memberPhotoId: imageId,
      })
    } catch (err) {
      console.error(`Failed to change profile photo for ${groupId}`)
    }
  }

  console.log(`Done!`)
})()

This is super helpful, thank you!
It looks like arg_member: '56746842' is your member number. When I replaced it with my member number it seems to have worked for my user.
Could you retrieve that as a variable from the profile page?

Seems like the data-chapterid attribute is no longer present in the modern main profile page.

However, if you open the to the old style profile page it will still work. You can get to this from any group by going to More > Message Boards > My Profile

Seems like the data-chapterid attribute is no longer present in the modern main profile page.

However, if you open the to the old style profile page it will still work. You can get to this from any group by going to More > Message Boards > My Profile

Just make sure the photo on the group profile page you navigate to is set to what you want the rest to change to.

I was able to update more than 200 meetup groups in just a few seconds.
Thank you

@jrhalasz or anyone else How to get meetup member id? ( I think I found out by going to group profile page)
@CDeLeon94 or anyone else - where do you access "more > Message Boards > My Profile ? I do not see "More" in the menu
@BinaryMuse

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    at <anonymous>:2:69
    at <anonymous>:30:3

Member id can by found by click your profile picture in the top right corner and going to view profile. In the address bar, the number after members/ is your member id

for the more you need to navigate to any one of your groups, just under the header you'll see about events ... more

Member id can by found by click your profile picture in the top right corner and going to view profile. In the address bar, the number after members/ is your member id

for the more you need to navigate to any one of your groups, just under the header you'll see about events ... more

Thank you CDeLeon94! It was the profile page specifically for the group but it worked!

^ Can confirm working as of July 6th 2023 also (following instructions from CDeLeon94)

I didn't try this script, but I noticed that I couldn't even find a way to manually change my profile picture for a specific group anymore. But when I deleted my old profile photo, my new one started showing on all groups. Delete via View profile > Change profile photo > Choose from library > Manage photos.