List Couchsurfing events by location

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List the upcoming public events of a Couchsurfing location with the location's published summary, statistics and FAQ, filtered by date window and paged with a cursor.

GET/v1/couchsurfing/eventsx-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

locationstringrequiredquery

Required location slug as it appears in couchsurfing.com/c/locations/<slug>, for example berlin-state-of-berlin-germany or tokyo-japan; lowercase letters, digits and single hyphens.

max 160 chars

Exampleberlin-state-of-berlin-germany

dateFilterenumquery

Optional date window: any, happening_now, today, tomorrow, this_weekend, this_week, next_7_days, this_month or next_30_days. Omit for all upcoming events.

one of: any, happening_now, today, tomorrow, this_weekend, this_week, next_7_days, this_month, next_30_days

cursorstringquery

Optional pagination cursor: pass nextCursor from the previous response. Omit for the first page.

max 5 chars

limitstringdefault: "20"query

Optional page size from 1 to 50; default 20.

default: "20" · max 2 chars

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

Upstream HTTP exchanges, 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 for the record.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Complete refers only to supported fields; coverage.source is public_api or public_page. Warnings: first_page_only when the public page served a first page without a cursor, record_limit or unresolved_reference.

coverage.sourceenum

Always included.

one of: public_api, public_page

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

locationobject

Required location slug as it appears in couchsurfing.com/c/locations/<slug>, for example berlin-state-of-berlin-germany or tokyo-japan; lowercase letters, digits and single hyphens.

eventsobject[]

Ordered public event records in source order, with the same fields as the event endpoint. Call event for a specific record.

up to 100 items

totalCountintegernullable

Source total number of upcoming events matching the location and date window, or null when unavailable.

≥ 0

hasNextPagebooleannullable

True when the source reports more records after this page.

nextCursorstringnullable

Cursor for the next page, or null on the last page.

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 source data.
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/events?location=berlin-state-of-berlin-germany" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/couchsurfing/events?location=berlin-state-of-berlin-germany",
  {
    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/events?location=berlin-state-of-berlin-germany",
  {
    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/events",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "location": "berlin-state-of-berlin-germany"
    },
    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/events?location=berlin-state-of-berlin-germany", 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/events?location=berlin-state-of-berlin-germany"))
            .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": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.couchsurfing.com/c/locations/berlin-state-of-berlin-germany",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 2,
    "responseBytes": 150000,
    "durationMs": 420
  },
  "location": {
    "id": "300X7j2MvKHD0NgXEExea8MQPwX_cm_lt",
    "locationId": "2pdz5Gj0txjviZWJNWnsBlpqVHn_lc",
    "slug": "berlin-state-of-berlin-germany",
    "title": {
      "language": "en",
      "text": "Berlin, State of Berlin, Germany"
    },
    "stats": {
      "memberCount": "285,000",
      "communityCount": "53",
      "tripCount": "100,000+",
      "eventCount": "1,635"
    }
  },
  "events": [
    {
      "id": "3IXMFPQ11kXfd53PMsv1hm8O09b_ho",
      "slug": "example",
      "title": "Weekly river meeting",
      "startDateTime": "2026-09-11T19:00:00.000Z",
      "activity": "chill_outside",
      "counters": {
        "total": 12,
        "countAttendees": 8
      }
    }
  ],
  "totalCount": 720,
  "hasNextPage": true,
  "nextCursor": "20"
}

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."
  }
}