Kickstarter Projects Scraper - Search Campaigns & Funding

What does Kickstarter Projects Scraper do?

Kickstarter Projects Scraper extracts structured project data from kickstarter.com — including location data. It supports keyword search, location filters, and controllable result limits, so you can run the same query consistently over time.

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Key features

• 💵 Structured pricing: structured currency on every project — numbers you can sort and compare without parsing price text.
• 🖼️ Images: imageUrl on every project, ready for a catalog or a feed.
• 🗂️ Category path: category place each project in kickstarter.com's own category tree.
• 🔍 Keyword search: search kickstarter.com by keyword with the query input.
• 🔗 Paste-mode: paste kickstarter.com URLs into startUrls to scrape exactly the pages you picked in the browser.
• ♻️ Incremental mode: daily runs emit only listings that are new or whose price/condition changed since last run. Perfect for inventory-diff dashboards and competitive pricing alerts. Saves 80–95% on recurring monitoring.
• 🔔 Notifications: telegram / Slack / Discord / WhatsApp / webhook alerts on each run. Combine with incremental to ping only when prices or inventory actually move.
• 📦 Compact mode: light payload with core fields only — comparable rows across listings without HTML or metadata overhead. Perfect for pricing dashboards.
• 🔌 MCP connectors: export your results into Notion via Apify's MCP connectors — a clean run-summary page, no glue code. Opt-in via the App connector field; deterministic field-mapping, no AI. Built on Apify's connector framework, so more destinations open up as their catalog grows.
• 📌 Change classification: each record carries a changeType of NEW / UPDATED / UNCHANGED / REAPPEARED / EXPIRED. Default emits NEW + UPDATED + REAPPEARED; opt into the others with emitUnchanged / emitExpired.
• 🧹 Empty-field stripping: drop null, empty-string, and empty-array fields from each record before push. Smaller payloads for AI agents and dashboards that already handle missing fields gracefully.

What data can you extract from kickstarter.com?

Each result includes Core project fields (id, name, blurb, url, portalUrl, projectPath, state, and isLaunched, and more) and extended fields (detailFetched). In standard mode, all fields are always present — unavailable data points are returned as null, never omitted. In compact mode, only core fields are returned.

Input

The main inputs are a search keyword, an optional location filter, and a result limit. Additional filters and options are available in the input schema.

Key parameters:

• query — Project search keywords (e.g. "board game", "espresso", "graphic novel"). Use a JSON array for several searches in one run. Leave everything empty to browse live projects (bounded by Max Results).
• queries — Several search keywords, one per line. Combined with the Search Term field if both are set. (default: [])
• categories — Category slugs (art, comics, crafts, dance, design, fashion, film-and-video, food, games, journalism, music, photography, publishing, technology, theater) or numeric category IDs (also sub-categories, e.g. 34). One search per category. Empty = all categories. (default: [])
• states — Which lifecycle states to return: live, successful, failed, canceled, upcoming, or all (= every state, one search each). Empty = live projects (the site default). (default: [])
• sort — Result order. Empty = the site default (magic).
• staffPicksOnly — Only return projects Kickstarter marked as Projects We Love. (default: false)
• country — Two-letter country code (e.g. "GB", "US"; a JSON array for several). Keeps projects whose country or location country matches. Empty = worldwide.
• locationWoeid — Restrict to one place by its Yahoo WOEID (the site discover filter woe_id, e.g. 2459115 = New York). 0 or empty = off.
• minPercentFunded — Only deliver projects funded at least this much (100 = reached the goal). Max Results counts delivered rows, so the run keeps paging until enough match.
• minBackers — Only deliver projects with at least this many backers.
• minPledgedUsd — Only deliver projects with at least this much pledged, converted to USD.
• launchedWithinDays — Only deliver projects launched in the last N days. 0 or empty = any.
• ...and 30 more parameters

Input examples

Basic search — Keyword-driven search with a result cap.

→ Full payload per result — all standard fields populated where the source provides them.

{
  "query": "board game",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Incremental tracking — Only emit projects that changed since the previous run with this stateKey.

→ First run builds the baseline state. Subsequent runs emit only records that are new or whose tracked content changed. Set emitUnchanged: true to include unchanged records as well.

{
  "query": "board game",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "incrementalMode": true,
  "stateKey": "board-game-tracker"
}

Compact output for AI agents — Return only core fields for AI-agent and MCP workflows.

→ Small payload with the most important fields — ideal for piping into LLMs without token overhead.

{
  "query": "board game",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "compact": true
}

Output

Each run produces a dataset of structured project records. Results can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab in Apify Console.

Example project record

{
  "id": 1613907293,
  "name": "Rainbow Blvd. - A Colorful and Clever Board Game",
  "blurb": "Build beautiful translucent 3D rainbows & score on any player's turn in a vibrant strategy board game for 1–4 players (5 w/expansion).",
  "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/steelwinggames/rainbow-blvd",
  "portalUrl": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/steelwinggames/rainbow-blvd",
  "projectPath": "steelwinggames/rainbow-blvd",
  "state": "live",
  "isLaunched": true,
  "prelaunchActivated": true,
  "inLatePledgePhase": false,
  "category": "Tabletop Games",
  "categoryId": 34,
  "parentCategory": "Games",
  "creatorName": "Steelwing Games",
  "creatorId": 1119977508,
  "creatorUrl": "https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/steelwinggames",
  "location": "Kansas City, MO",
  "locationId": 2430683,
  "country": "US",
  "countryName": "United States",
  "currency": "USD",
  "goal": 10000,
  "pledged": 38191,
  "percentFunded": 381.91,
  "backersCount": 468,
  "goalUsd": 10000,
  "pledgedUsd": 38191,
  "usdExchangeRate": 1,
  "launchedAt": "2026-10-13T14:59:59.000Z",
  "deadline": "2026-11-12T23:00:00.000Z",
  "durationDays": 30,
  "createdAt": "2026-01-05T18:16:42.000Z",
  "stateChangedAt": "2026-10-13T15:00:03.000Z",
  "staffPick": true,
  "spotlight": false,
  "imageUrl": "https://i.kickstarter.com/assets/055/533/440/a9a7727c3ad81533966c3e5ef4913847_original.png?anim=false&fit=cover&gravity=auto&height=576&origin=ugc&q=92&v=1792100060&width=1024&sig=3PsdwV8oHHLSKWLQ9WSw...",
  "videoUrl": "https://v2.kickstarter.com/1793814050-BvrNO6bCaxQF2ksL734wyTq%2B1jllk%2BS8U5ITM8Y6%2FoM%3D/projects/5270115/video-1465874-h264_high.mp4",
  "videoThumbnailUrl": "https://d15chbti7ht62o.cloudfront.net/projects/5270115/video-1465874-h264_720.jpg?2026",
  "rewardsUrl": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/steelwinggames/rainbow-blvd/rewards",
  "source": "kickstarter.com",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-05T02:51:40.199Z",
  "projectId": "1613907293",
  "slug": "rainbow-blvd",
  "currencySymbol": "$",
  "pledgedConverted": 38191,
  "convertedCurrency": "USD",
  "pledgedPerBacker": 81.6,
  "locationCity": "Kansas City",
  "locationState": "MO",
  "locationCountry": "US",
  "categorySlug": "games/tabletop games",
  "parentCategoryId": 12,
  "creatorSlug": "steelwinggames",
  "creatorAvatarUrl": "https://i.kickstarter.com/assets/052/122/290/57108c923ee3f93f1f3a56ecd4db0ed0_original.png?anim=false&fit=cover&height=160&origin=ugc&q=92&v=1767633636&width=160&sig=K2HQMlKtHiaD2uJrKCLteov0JtOknI3xxy...",
  "photoUrl": "https://i.kickstarter.com/assets/055/533/440/a9a7727c3ad81533966c3e5ef4913847_original.png?anim=false&fit=cover&gravity=auto&height=315&origin=ugc&q=92&v=1792100060&width=560&sig=UsCJKPOaV%2B4jcwfIva6...",
  "searchPage": 1,
  "position": 1,
  "totalHits": 10350,
  "listingId": "c03f2be0b0853a90459bfa4c8d6bf88778f2ee8248d3e3b8cc0bafb1736644c4",
  "searchQuery": "board game",
  "contentQuality": "full",
  "detailFetched": false,
  "contentHash": "c4a471b747a53e9b3963dc5796de1229374a98221818270bfa5c895f2179b095"
}

Incremental fields

When incremental mode is on, each record also carries:

• changeType — one of NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, REAPPEARED, EXPIRED. Default output covers NEW / UPDATED / REAPPEARED; set emitUnchanged: true or emitExpired: true to opt into the others.
• isRepost, repostOfId, repostDetectedAt — populated when a new listing matches the tracked content of a previously expired one. Set skipReposts: true to drop detected reposts from the output.

How to scrape kickstarter.com

1. Go to Kickstarter Projects Scraper in Apify Console.
2. Enter a search keyword and optional location filter.
3. Set maxResults to control how many results you need.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
5. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Use cases

• Extract project data from kickstarter.com for market research and competitive analysis.
• Monitor new and changed projects on scheduled runs without processing the full dataset every time.
• Feed structured data into AI agents, MCP tools, and automated pipelines using compact mode.
• Export clean, structured data to dashboards, spreadsheets, or data warehouses.

How much does it cost to scrape kickstarter.com?

Kickstarter Projects Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay a small fee when the run starts and then for each result that is actually produced.

• Run start: $0.00045 per run
• Per result: $0.0008 per project record

Example costs:

• 10 results: $0.00846
• 25 results: $0.02
• 100 results: $0.081
• 200 results: $0.16
• 500 results: $0.4

Example: recurring monitoring savings

These examples compare full re-scrapes with incremental runs at different churn rates. Churn is the share of projects that are new or whose tracked content changed since the previous run. Actual churn depends on your query breadth, source activity, and polling frequency — the scenarios below are examples, not predictions.

Example setup: 250 projects per run, daily polling (30 runs/month). Costs scale linearly with the number of projects.

Churn rate	Full re-scrape run cost	Incremental run cost	Savings vs full re-scrape	Monthly cost after baseline
5% — stable niche query	$0.20	$0.01	$0.19 (95%)	$0.31
15% — moderate broad query	$0.20	$0.03	$0.17 (85%)	$0.91
30% — high-volume aggregator	$0.20	$0.06	$0.14 (70%)	$1.82

Full re-scrape monthly cost at the same cadence: $6.02. First month with incremental costs $0.50 / $1.08 / $1.96 for the 5% / 15% / 30% scenarios because the first run builds baseline state at full cost before incremental savings apply.

Platform usage is included in the per-result fee shown above.

FAQ

How many results can I get from kickstarter.com?

The number of results depends on the search query and available projects on kickstarter.com. Use the maxResults parameter to control how many results are returned per run.

Does Kickstarter Projects Scraper support recurring monitoring?

Yes. Enable incremental mode to only receive new or changed projects on subsequent runs. This is ideal for scheduled monitoring where you want to track changes over time without re-processing the full dataset.

Can I integrate Kickstarter Projects Scraper with other apps?

Yes. Kickstarter Projects Scraper works with Apify's integrations to connect with tools like Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Slack, and more. You can also use webhooks to trigger actions when a run completes.

Can I use Kickstarter Projects Scraper with the Apify API?

Yes. You can start runs, manage inputs, and retrieve results programmatically through the Apify API. Client libraries are available for JavaScript, Python, and other languages.

Can I use Kickstarter Projects Scraper through an MCP Server?

Yes. Apify provides an MCP Server that lets AI assistants and agents call this actor directly. Use compact mode, a single descriptionFormat, and excludeEmptyFields to keep payloads manageable for LLM context windows.

Is it legal to scrape kickstarter.com?

This actor extracts publicly available data from kickstarter.com. Web scraping of public information is generally considered legal, but you should always review the target site's terms of service and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws and regulations, including GDPR where relevant.

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3. Click Start — export results as JSON, CSV, or Excel

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Disclaimer

This actor accesses only publicly available data on kickstarter.com. You are responsible for how you use the extracted data — in particular any personal information such as names, phone numbers, or email addresses — and for complying with Kickstarter Projects's terms of use, applicable data-protection law (including the GDPR where it applies), and the anti-spam rules of your jurisdiction.

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Kickstarter Projects or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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