Get a Couchsurfing profile

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Retrieve one public member profile by handle: identity, about text, home and travel locations, languages, interests, photos, legacy profile answers, friend count and published prompt answers.

GET/v1/couchsurfing/profilex-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

handlestringrequiredquery

Required member handle as it appears in couchsurfing.com/c/users/<handle>; letters, digits, dot, underscore and hyphen, matched case-insensitively.

max 100 chars

ExampleCouchsurfing

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 to the supported fields of this page. Warnings: answers_unavailable, record_limit or unresolved_reference. Unresolved framework references become null.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

profileobject

Nested public profile. Fields vary by member; absent fields stay absent and source nulls are preserved.

answersobject[]

Published prompt answers with the prompt question joined by ID: id, promptId, question, answer and timestamps. Empty when the member has none; answers_unavailable when the page omits them.

up to 100 items

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/profile?handle=Couchsurfing" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/couchsurfing/profile?handle=Couchsurfing",
  {
    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/profile?handle=Couchsurfing",
  {
    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/profile",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "handle": "Couchsurfing"
    },
    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/profile?handle=Couchsurfing", 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/profile?handle=Couchsurfing"))
            .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/users/example",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_page",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 650000,
    "durationMs": 700
  },
  "profile": {
    "id": "2vuwMZw3sDqIUxPzHBU4FuaaIPO_pf",
    "userId": "2s2YjWnlyvx7ppEpPBMsDZU6LiK_us",
    "handle": "example",
    "displayName": "Example E.",
    "createdTs": "2013-11-01T19:12:13.000Z",
    "deletedTs": null,
    "aboutMe": "Synthetic public bio",
    "education": null,
    "occupation": null,
    "languages": [
      "eng",
      "deu"
    ],
    "friendCount": 6,
    "isPrivate": false,
    "isIdentificationVerified": false,
    "domicileLocationSummary": {
      "id": "2pdzEvThComgSePo9cEq7lqgVux_lc",
      "locationDescription": {
        "description": "San Francisco, California, United States",
        "country2": "US",
        "place": "San Francisco"
      },
      "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
      "point": {
        "longitude": -122.41942,
        "latitude": 37.77493
      }
    }
  },
  "answers": [
    {
      "id": "385oUkFaxBZ7X2ygCmdNW518Y1h_pt_an",
      "promptId": "35fQi15OGzFRcrAZkmccLyehZJx_pt",
      "question": "How I participate in Couchsurfing...",
      "answer": "Synthetic answer",
      "createdTs": "2026-01-11T02:33:30.762Z",
      "updatedTs": "2026-03-27T10:41:07.573Z",
      "deletedTs": null
    }
  ]
}

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."
  }
}