node-red-contrib-coworkingview 0.1.1
Node-RED node for the CoworkingView catalogue API: search coworking spaces and private offices, fetch market rates and best-value rankings by city. No API key.
node-red-contrib-coworkingview
A Node-RED node for the CoworkingView catalogue of coworking spaces, private offices and flexible workspace. Search a city, fetch one space, read a or read a city's market rates, all from a flow.
Reads need no API key and no sign-up. The node calls the public
CoworkingView API (https://api.coworkingview.com/v1), which is rate-limited.
Install
From the Node-RED editor: Menu → Manage palette → Install, search for coworkingview.
Or from your Node-RED user directory (usually ~/.node-red):
npm install node-red-contrib-coworkingview
Then restart Node-RED. The node appears in the network category as coworkingview.
Operations
| Operation | Needs | Returns in msg.payload |
|---|---|---|
| Search spaces in a city | city |
An array of spaces (title, slug, city, entry price…) |
| Get one space | slug |
The full record for one space: pricing options, amenities, address |
| Market rates for a city | city |
Median prices per workspace type, with sample sizes |
| List cities | — | Every city slug you can query |
Every field can be set on the node or sent on the message, and the message wins, so one node can serve many cities:
| Message property | Used by | Example |
|---|---|---|
msg.payload (string) |
all but cities | "berlin" fills an empty city, or an empty slug for space |
msg.operation |
all | search, space, rates, cities |
msg.city |
search, rates | berlin, madrid, barcelona, london, munich |
msg.slug |
space | a slug from a search result |
msg.pricingOptionType |
search | private_office, flex_desk, fix_desk, day_pass, meeting_room, virtual_office, event_space, membership, exclusive_bereich |
msg.limit |
search (1–50) | 5 |
msg.page |
search | 2 |
msg.currency |
rates | USD |
msg.locale |
all | en, de, es |
The node also sets msg.statusCode and msg.coworkingview (operation, request url, response
meta). Errors (unknown city, bad input, network) go to a Catch node with the original message.
Example
Import Menu → Import → Examples → node-red-contrib-coworkingview → search-berlin. It injects
"berlin" into two nodes: one lists five private offices, the other reads Berlin's market rates.
[{"id":"c1","type":"inject","payload":"berlin","payloadType":"str","props":[{"p":"payload"}],"wires":[["c2"]]},
{"id":"c2","type":"coworkingview","operation":"search","pricingOptionType":"private_office","limit":"5","locale":"en","wires":[["c3"]]},
{"id":"c3","type":"debug","complete":"payload","wires":[]}]
Ideas: post new private offices in your city to Slack every Monday, alert when a city's median flex-desk price moves, or feed a dashboard with the price index.
Reading the numbers
- Market rates are medians over the priced spaces in a city. Check
sampleSizebefore calling a figure "the market rate": a small sample is a small sample. - Prices are what operators publish; the space's page on coworkingview.com has the current offer.
More ways in
- Website: coworkingview.com: coworking in Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona and more
- Go:
coworkingview-go - CLI:
@coworkingview/cli - MCP server for AI assistants: coworkingview.com/en/mcp
- OpenAPI: coworkingview.com/openapi.json
Configuration
COWORKINGVIEW_API in Node-RED's environment overrides the API origin (default
https://api.coworkingview.com). Requests time out after 15 seconds.
Requires Node-RED 3.0 or newer and Node.js 18 or newer.
License
MIT © CoworkingView
