GoFundMe Campaign Scraper

Scrape GoFundMe fundraising campaigns — search by keyword, category, country, and funding metrics, or look up campaigns directly by URL. Get titles, descriptions, funding progress, donation counts, organizer info, images, and more. HTTP-only via GoFundMe's public search index. No auth, no proxy.

What this actor does

• Two modes: search (keyword + filters) and byUrls (exact lookup)
• Global coverage: campaigns across 20 countries (US, UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, and more)
• Rich filters: category, country, organizer language, goal amount, amount raised, donation count, heart/like count, created-date range, has-donations flag, charity name, registered-charity-only, popular/trending-only, crisis-response-only
• Flexible URL input: accepts full GoFundMe URLs, gofund.me short links, bare slugs, or numeric campaign IDs
• Sortable: relevance, newest, most funded, most donations, most hearts, highest goal
• Empty fields are always omitted — no null/sentinel values

Output per campaign

• campaignId, title, description
• organizerName, beneficiaryName (if the funds' recipient differs from the organizer), charityName (if a registered charity)
• category
• city, state, country, location, zip, latitude, longitude
• goalAmount, currentAmount, amountToGoal, goalProgressPercent, currency
• donationCount, recentDonationCount, heartCount, commentCount, socialShareCount
• createdAt, updatedAt, lastDonationAt — UTC ISO timestamps
• hasDonations, isPopular, isRecentlyCreated, hasRecentDonations, donationsClosed, isRegisteredCharity, isCrisisResponse
• campaignTags[]
• language, languageLocale
• imageUrl, thumbnailUrl, youtubeUrl (if a video was added)
• campaignUrl, shortUrl (gofund.me/... link, if set)
• recordType: "campaign", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search / byUrls
searchQuery	string	medical	Free-text keyword (mode=search)
campaignUrls	array	–	GoFundMe URLs / short links / slugs / IDs (mode=byUrls)
categories	array	–	One or more of the 21 GoFundMe categories
countries	array	–	One or more of 20 supported countries
languageLocale	string	Any	Organizer's language/locale
minGoalAmount / maxGoalAmount	int	–	Funding goal bounds
minCurrentAmount / maxCurrentAmount	int	–	Amount-raised bounds
minDonationCount	int	–	Minimum number of donations
minHeartCount	int	–	Minimum hearts/likes
createdAfter / createdBefore	string	–	YYYY-MM-DD date bounds
hasDonationsOnly	bool	false	Exclude campaigns with zero donations
charityName	string	–	Exact registered-charity name (mode=search)
registeredCharityOnly	bool	false	Only campaigns tied to a verified registered charity
popularOnly	bool	false	Only campaigns GoFundMe currently flags as popular/trending
crisisResponseOnly	bool	false	Only campaigns linked to an active crisis-response leaderboard
sortBy	string	relevance	relevance / newest / mostFunded / mostDonations / mostHearts / highestGoal
sortDirection	string	desc	desc / asc
maxItems	int	50	Hard cap (1–1000)

Example: recent, well-funded medical campaigns in the US

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "surgery",
  "categories": ["Medical, Illness & Healing"],
  "countries": ["US"],
  "minCurrentAmount": 10000,
  "sortBy": "mostFunded",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: lookup by URL

{
  "mode": "byUrls",
  "campaignUrls": [
    "https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-brandon-buckinghams-medical-recovery",
    "https://gofund.me/brandon-kite-22nov"
  ]
}

Use cases

• Fundraising research — analyze successful campaign patterns by category or country
• Crisis response monitoring — track disaster-relief and emergency campaigns as they emerge
• Nonprofit/charity research — identify registered-charity campaigns and community trends
• Due diligence — pull campaign details, organizer names, and funding progress by URL
• Market research — study fundraising goal sizes and donation patterns by category/region

Data source & limitations

Data comes from GoFundMe's public campaign search index, the same source gofundme.com/s queries from every visitor's browser. Coverage spans the 20 countries GoFundMe currently supports; campaigns set to private or removed by GoFundMe will not appear. sortBy values other than relevance reorder each fetched page of results rather than re-sorting GoFundMe's entire multi-million-campaign index, since GoFundMe does not expose a public globally-sorted index for those fields — for exhaustive "true top-N by amount raised" analysis, fetch with a higher maxItems and re-sort the output yourself.

FAQ

Can I search by donor name or donation amount? No — individual donation/donor-level data is not part of the public campaign index this actor uses.

Why do some campaigns show no charityName? Most GoFundMe campaigns are personal fundraisers, not registered nonprofits; charityName only appears for verified charity campaigns.

Does this include private or unlisted campaigns? No — only campaigns indexed in GoFundMe's public search are returned.

How current is the data? Each run queries GoFundMe's live search index directly, so results (funding totals, donation counts) reflect the current state at run time.