Buy Me a Coffee Creator Scraper — Profiles, Memberships, Shop & Earnings Signals

Scrape Buy Me a Coffee creator profiles (buymeacoffee.com/{handle}) and discover creators by keyword in one run. Extract the full creator record: name, bio, avatar, work, social/website links, public emails, membership tiers & prices, supporter counts, earnings signals, shop products/prices and featured post links — ready for influencer outreach, creator-economy marketing and lead generation.

Built on the Apify platform — get results as clean JSON/CSV/Excel via API, schedule recurring runs, and integrate with any workflow.

Why use this actor?

• Creator discovery built in — search the public Buy Me a Coffee sitemap by keyword (e.g. design, podcast, artist, writer) or pull the newest creators from the explore page, then scrape them all in one run. No need to know handles upfront.
• Outreach-ready data — every record includes social links, website, public emails (when the creator shares them), a bio and a work tagline — exactly what influencer outreach agencies and lead-gen teams need to qualify and contact creators.
• Earnings intelligence — membership tiers with monthly/yearly prices and active member counts, public supporter counts, shop product counts and sales, goal progress and payout status give a solid picture of a creator's monetization.
• Fast and cheap — Buy Me a Coffee is a Laravel + Inertia.js app that server-renders everything into an embedded JSON block, so the actor scrapes over plain HTTP (CheerioCrawler, no browser per page): ~10–50x faster and a fraction of the compute cost of browser scrapers.
• Safe by default — hard caps on items and requests; free users get a 10-profile preview.

How to use

1. Open the actor on Apify, switch to the Input tab.
2. Enter creator handles (e.g. janlosert), or set a search keyword, or tick scrape newest creators.
3. Set Max creators and Max requests per crawl.
4. Click Start.
5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
handles	array	—	Direct Buy Me a Coffee usernames, e.g. ["janlosert","TheNewAtlas"]
startUrls	array	—	Direct profile URLs (equivalent to handles)
searchKeyword	string	—	Keyword to discover creators by username in the public sitemap
scrapeExplore	boolean	false	Scrape the newest creators from the explore-creators page
maxItems	integer	50	Max creator profiles per run (hard cap 500)
maxRequestsPerCrawl	integer	150	Max total HTTP requests (hard cap 1000)
proxy	object	Apify proxy ON	Route requests through the Apify proxy

Output

One dataset record per creator. Simplified example:

{
  "handle": "thenewatlas",
  "name": "TheNewAtlas",
  "work": "Videos on geopolitics, technology, and building up communities",
  "bio": "I am Brian Berletic, a geopolitical analyst based in Bangkok...",
  "avatarUrl": "https://cdn.buymeacoffee.com/uploads/profile_pictures/...",
  "profileUrl": "https://buymeacoffee.com/thenewatlas",
  "twitterHandle": "brian_berletic",
  "websiteLinks": ["https://newatlas.report/"],
  "socialLinks": [],
  "publicEmails": [],
  "coffeePrice": 5,
  "currency": "USD",
  "publicSupporterCount": 3308,
  "membershipEnabled": true,
  "membershipTiers": [
    {
      "title": "The Troops",
      "priceMonthly": 5,
      "priceYearly": 50,
      "activeMembers": 244,
      "benefits": ["Support me on a monthly basis", "Unlock exclusive posts and messages"]
    }
  ],
  "posts": [{ "title": "Merry Christmas...", "url": "https://buymeacoffee.com/thenewatlas/...", "viewCount": 2924 }],
  "shop": { "productCount": 0, "salesCount": 0, "reviewCount": 0 },
  "shopProducts": [],
  "goal": null,
  "earningsSignals": ["payout_connected", "membership_enabled", "public_supporters:3308"]
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field	Description
handle / name / work	Creator identity
bio / bioHtml	Creator bio (plain text + raw HTML)
avatarUrl / coverImageUrl	Profile avatar and cover image
twitterHandle / websiteLinks / socialLinks	Social & website links (classified by platform)
publicEmails	Emails found in the bio/links (creators who publish them)
coffeePrice / currency	Price of one "coffee" donation and currency
publicSupporterCount / supporterCountHidden	Public supporter count and whether the creator hides it
membershipTiers	Tier name, monthly/yearly/lifetime price, benefits, active members, member limit, trial days
subscriptionCount / monthlyIncome	Subscription count and monthly income (when the creator makes them public)
goal	Fundraising goal: target, current, percentage, type
posts	Featured posts: title, URL, view/like/comment counts, dates
shop / shopProducts	Shop stats and products: title, price, member price, sales, images
earningsSignals	Flags: payout connected, membership enabled, supporter count, monthly income, goal, shop sales

How much does it cost to scrape Buy Me a Coffee?

The actor uses plain HTTP (no browser), so compute costs are low — roughly one request per creator (~1 second each with Apify proxy). A 50-creator run typically finishes in well under a minute. Free Apify users get a 10-profile preview; paid users can run up to 500 profiles per run.

Tips & advanced options

• Search is slug-based — searchKeyword matches usernames, so pick broad keywords (e.g. design, coffee, art) to get more hits.
• Combine modes — you can pass handles AND a keyword AND explore in one run; results are deduplicated per creator handle.
• Proxy — the residential Apify proxy group is recommended if you scale to thousands of profiles; the default group is fine for most runs.
• Watch the caps — keep maxItems realistic for your use case to control compute spend.

FAQ, disclaimers & support

• Is scraping Buy Me a Coffee legal? Scraping public profile data for research and outreach is generally acceptable, but always respect Buy Me a Coffee's Terms of Service, robots.txt, copyright and privacy. Don't use the data for spam.
• Why are publicEmails usually empty? Buy Me a Coffee doesn't expose creator emails publicly. The actor only picks up emails creators share in their bio or links.
• Why is monthlyIncome often null? Most creators keep earnings private; the field is only populated when the creator enables public earnings visibility.
• Known limitation: the on-site keyword search page is client-side rendered, so discovery uses the official public sitemap + explore page instead.
• Found a bug or need a custom version? Open an issue or contact us for a tailored solution.