Patreon Scraper

Scrape Patreon creators (campaigns) — name, summary, patron count, paid-member count, total post count, currency, tier pricing (with USD conversion), and recent public posts. No login required, pure HTTP using Patreon's __NEXT_DATA__ payload + public posts API.

Built for creator-economy analytics, brand-deal teams, and competitive research on Patreon-monetised creators.

What you get

Creator records (recordType=creator)

Field	Description
id	Patreon campaign ID
vanity	Vanity slug (PhilosophyTube)
url	Public Patreon URL
name	Campaign name
summary	Plain-text campaign description
oneLiner	Short tagline
creationName	What the creator makes (e.g. "Creating Philosophy Videos")
currency	Currency code (USD / EUR / GBP / …)
patronCount	Total patron count (free + paid)
paidMemberCount	Paid-member count
creationCount	Total post count
payPerName	"month" / "video" / "creation"
isMonthly	true if billing is monthly
isNsfw	true for adult content
offersFreeMembership	Whether a free tier exists
offersPaidMembership	Whether paid tiers exist
publishedAt	ISO 8601 launch date
avatarPhotoUrl	Avatar image URL
coverPhotoUrl	Banner image URL
pledgeUrl	Direct checkout URL
creator	{fullName, vanity, url} for the underlying user
tiers	Array of paid tiers (sorted by price ascending)
scrapedAt	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp

Each tier in tiers:

Field	Description
id	Tier (reward) ID
title	Tier title
description	Tier description (plain text)
amountCents	Price in cents
amountUsd	Price as a decimal USD/local-currency value
currency	Currency code
patronCount	Patrons on this tier
requiresShipping	true if physical fulfilment required
imageUrl	Tier illustration URL

Post records (recordType=post)

Field	Description
id	Post ID
vanity	Creator vanity (added by us)
title	Post title
publishedAt	ISO 8601 publish timestamp
url	Public post URL
postType	video_external_file, image_file, text_only, audio_file, link, …
isPaid	true if patron-only
isPublic	true if visible to anonymous users
patronCount	Number of patrons who can see the post
commentCount	Comment count
likeCount	Like count
teaserText	Plain-text teaser (when paid post has a public teaser)
content	Plain-text body (when public)
thumbnailUrl	Thumbnail image URL

Empty fields are dropped from every record at every depth.

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	Enum	creator	creator (campaign + tiers + posts) / posts (posts only) / search (creators by keyword) / explore (browse by category) / postByUrl (single post by URL)
creators	Array	["PhilosophyTube"]	Vanity slugs or full URLs (mode=creator/posts)
searchQuery	String	—	Keyword for mode=search
category	Enum	—	Patreon Explore category — podcasts, video-film, music, visual-arts, comedy, games, writing, drawing-painting, comics-graphic-novels, tabletop-games, science, education, crafts-diy, lifestyle
postUrls	Array	—	Patreon post URLs (https://www.patreon.com/posts/<id>) for mode=postByUrl
includePosts	Boolean	true	When mode=creator, also fetch posts
maxPostsPerCreator	Integer	20	Hard cap per-creator post emission (1-200)
minPatronCount	Integer	—	Drop creators with fewer patrons
excludeNsfw	Boolean	false	Drop NSFW creators
maxItems	Integer	50	Hard cap on total emitted records (1-5000)

Example input — single creator + posts

{
  "mode": "creator",
  "creators": ["PhilosophyTube"],
  "includePosts": true,
  "maxPostsPerCreator": 20
}

Example input — batch creators

{
  "mode": "creator",
  "creators": ["jordanbpeterson", "PhilosophyTube"],
  "includePosts": false,
  "minPatronCount": 1000
}

Example input — posts only

{
  "mode": "posts",
  "creators": ["PhilosophyTube"],
  "maxPostsPerCreator": 100
}

Example input — search creators

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "philosophy",
  "minPatronCount": 500,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example input — explore by category

{
  "mode": "explore",
  "category": "podcasts",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example input — fetch post by URL

{
  "mode": "postByUrl",
  "postUrls": [
    "https://www.patreon.com/posts/85614999",
    "https://www.patreon.com/posts/welcome-to-the-12345"
  ]
}

Example output

{
  "recordType": "creator",
  "id": "114875",
  "vanity": "PhilosophyTube",
  "url": "https://www.patreon.com/PhilosophyTube",
  "name": "Philosophy Tube",
  "creationName": "Creating Philosophy Videos",
  "oneLiner": "Giving away a philosophy degree one video at a time.",
  "summary": "When the British government tripled university tuition in 2010 …",
  "currency": "USD",
  "patronCount": 15382,
  "paidMemberCount": 5233,
  "creationCount": 756,
  "payPerName": "month",
  "offersFreeMembership": true,
  "offersPaidMembership": true,
  "publishedAt": "2014-09-21T17:34:46.000+00:00",
  "creator": {
    "fullName": "Philosophy Tube",
    "vanity": "PhilosophyTube",
    "url": "https://www.patreon.com/PhilosophyTube"
  },
  "tiers": [
    { "id": "...", "title": "Patron", "amountCents": 200, "amountUsd": 2.00, "currency": "USD" },
    { "id": "...", "title": "Producer", "amountCents": 500, "amountUsd": 5.00 }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-06T05:42:18Z"
}

Use cases

• Creator-economy analytics — Track patron growth and tier pricing across a portfolio of creators.
• Brand-deal targeting — Identify creators with N+ patrons in a niche for sponsorship outreach.
• Competitive research — Compare your creator's pricing/post-cadence with peers.
• Investor due-diligence — Patron counts are a public approximation of MRR; compare across creators.
• Content audits — Pull every public post from a Patreon creator for analysis or archival.

FAQ

Do I need a Patreon account? No. Every endpoint this actor uses is part of Patreon's public-facing site (the campaign page that any visitor can see) and the public posts JSON API.

Why does paidMemberCount differ from patronCount? patronCount includes free-tier members. paidMemberCount is paying patrons only — usually a much smaller number for creators that offer a free tier.

Are full post bodies included? Only for posts marked is_public=true. Patron-only posts return a public teaser (when set) but the full body is locked. Each post's isPaid / isPublic flags tell you which type you have.

How many posts can I scrape per creator? Up to 200 per run via maxPostsPerCreator. The Patreon posts API paginates 20 at a time — large pulls take ~1 second per page.

How current is the data? Live — every run hits Patreon at request time. Schedule the actor for hourly / daily refreshes to track patron-growth curves.

Do I need a proxy? No. Patreon's public site is happy to serve datacenter IPs.

What if Patreon does block me? The actor has built-in auto-escalation: on the first HTTP 403 / anti-bot block it lazily engages Apify Proxy (datacenter group first, residential as a second-stage fallback) and retries the failed URL transparently. All subsequent fetches in the same run continue through the proxied session. To disable, set autoEscalateOnBlock=false. To force a specific group set, populate proxyGroups.

Limitations

• Patron-only post bodies are not accessible without a logged-in account.
• Some creators hide patronCount (set member_count_preference to TIER_BREAKDOWN); those records will still emit but with the count omitted.
• Earnings are not exposed unless the creator explicitly publishes them (show_earnings); we don't surface this field by default.
• Comments are not included in this version (each post would need a follow-up fetch); we surface commentCount for sentiment-trend approximation.