Get a Couchsurfing event

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Retrieve one public community event (hangout) by URL: title, description, schedule, activity, venue with coordinates and map link, cover image, recurrence, organizer summaries, participation counters and the public interested/attending previews.

GET/v1/couchsurfing/eventx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

urlstringrequiredquery

Required HTTPS couchsurfing.com/c/events/<slug>-<id>_ho URL; the trailing _ho identifier alone is also accepted. No query, fragment or credentials.

max 500 chars

Examplehttps://www.couchsurfing.com/c/events/spree-weekly-meeting-or-cs-berlin-3IXMFPQ11kXfd53PMsv1hm8O09b_ho

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

Upstream HTTP attempts, decoded response bytes and duration in milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable public data is returned.

statusenum

success, partial, failed or challenged; HTTP 200 may be partial.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Canonical public Couchsurfing page retrieved.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Complete refers only to supported fields on this page. Warnings: attendee_preview_only when the embedded interested or attending lists are shorter than the counters, record_limit or unresolved_reference.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

eventobject

Nested event record. Fields vary by event; absent fields stay absent and source nulls are preserved.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Usable page data with explicit coverage warnings.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid service key.
403	`restricted`	Private member profile.
404	`not_found`	Missing or deleted profile, event or location.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Source throttled retrieval.
502	`upstream_challenged`	The source challenged the request.
502	`unsupported_page`	Missing, malformed or mismatched structured page state.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex`	Byte, node or depth limit exceeded.
502	`unsafe_redirect` `request_limit` `upstream_error`	Bounded retrieval failed.
503	`busy`	All slots are occupied.
504	`timeout`	Deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/couchsurfing/event?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.couchsurfing.com%2Fc%2Fevents%2Fspree-weekly-meeting-or-cs-berlin-3IXMFPQ11kXfd53PMsv1hm8O09b_ho" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/couchsurfing/event?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.couchsurfing.com%2Fc%2Fevents%2Fspree-weekly-meeting-or-cs-berlin-3IXMFPQ11kXfd53PMsv1hm8O09b_ho",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/couchsurfing/event?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.couchsurfing.com%2Fc%2Fevents%2Fspree-weekly-meeting-or-cs-berlin-3IXMFPQ11kXfd53PMsv1hm8O09b_ho",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Couchsurfing request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/couchsurfing/event",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "url": "https://www.couchsurfing.com/c/events/spree-weekly-meeting-or-cs-berlin-3IXMFPQ11kXfd53PMsv1hm8O09b_ho"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/couchsurfing/event?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.couchsurfing.com%2Fc%2Fevents%2Fspree-weekly-meeting-or-cs-berlin-3IXMFPQ11kXfd53PMsv1hm8O09b_ho", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/couchsurfing/event?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.couchsurfing.com%2Fc%2Fevents%2Fspree-weekly-meeting-or-cs-berlin-3IXMFPQ11kXfd53PMsv1hm8O09b_ho"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "partial",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.couchsurfing.com/c/events/example-3IXMFPQ11kXfd53PMsv1hm8O09b_ho",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_page",
    "complete": false,
    "warnings": [
      "attendee_preview_only"
    ]
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 600000,
    "durationMs": 700
  },
  "event": {
    "id": "3IXMFPQ11kXfd53PMsv1hm8O09b_ho",
    "slug": "example",
    "title": "Weekly river meeting",
    "description": "Synthetic public description",
    "startDateTime": "2026-09-11T19:00:00.000Z",
    "endDateTime": "2026-09-11T23:00:00.000Z",
    "activity": "chill_outside",
    "hasCost": null,
    "attendanceLimit": null,
    "counters": {
      "total": 12,
      "countOrganizers": 1,
      "countAttendees": 8,
      "countInterested": 3
    },
    "organizers": [
      {
        "id": "2vv3ebWmB9ByIGNNO5Je9NQqnfd_pf",
        "handle": "example-organizer",
        "displayName": "Example O."
      }
    ],
    "attendanceUsers": [],
    "interestedUsers": [],
    "place": {
      "name": "May-Ayim-Ufer 8",
      "mapsLink": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=a&query_place_id=example",
      "point": {
        "longitude": 13.4440868,
        "latitude": 52.5016394
      }
    }
  }
}

Missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}