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Re:The Death of Couchsurfing? by Mediterraneo10 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @08:25PM (#23216863)
> 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.

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Re:The Death of Couchsurfing? by MauranKilom on Sunday May 17, 2020 @08:27PM (#23216884)
Sounds like that runs afoul of GDPR.
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Re:The Death of Couchsurfing? by peterburkimsher on Sunday May 17, 2020 @08:38PM (#23216954)
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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