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		Mediterraneo10 on May 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Death of Couchsurfing? > create a data import tool so people can easily transfer their C$ profiles. This has been brought up in the past (there have been multiple waves of disgruntled CS members leaving for BW), but it is pretty clear that CS would consider this web scraping that violates their terms of service. CS does not provide any authorized way to export its profiles. EDIT: Sorry, I'm wrong. I left CS and chose to use only community-driven hospitality-exchange platforms pre-GDPR.

MauranKilom on May 18, 2020 [–]

Sounds like that runs afoul of GDPR.

peterburkimsher on May 18, 2020 | [–]

There is a data export tool, as a result of GDPR.

https://www.couchsurfing.com/preferences/privacy

However, there's no data import tool yet, and that's what I'd like to build.

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