Behance Projects Scraper

Scrape Behance projects, creators and appreciation counts for any search: type what you would search Behance for and get one row per project, with the title and link, appreciations, views and comment count, the creator and their profile, the creative fields and tags, and the cover image. Up to 20 terms can share a run, and a project two terms both find comes back once.

Before a big pull, know that Behance stops any one search at 1,000 projects, however many it claims to have, so a wider net needs more terms rather than a bigger number.

No emails, phone numbers or other contact details are asked for or written. You get the public profile link and it stops there. The form arrives with two real search terms and 100 projects, so pressing Start without editing runs that search and bills what it finds.

Input	Search terms, with an optional sort order, date window and creative field
Output	One row per project: title, link, appreciations, views, comments, creator and profile, creative fields, tags, cover image
Ceiling	1,000 projects per search term, 20 terms and 5,000 rows per run
Speed	500 projects took 36 to 41 seconds in our runs
Account needed	None
Price	$3.70 per 1,000 projects on the Free plan, a little less on paid plans. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 1,300

🔍 What Behance Projects Scraper does

It runs your terms through Behance's own project search, in the order and date window you pick, and writes a row for each project that comes back.

Behance's search is loose. A two-word term matches work that hits either word, and some results carry neither. So every project is checked for at least one of your words in its title, tags, creative fields or creator's name before it's written, and the ones that fail are dropped without charge. A project that carries one of your two words stays in: "coffee shop branding" still returns work tagged only "branding".

Pick a creative field and anything Behance returns outside that field is dropped the same way. The same goes for publishedWithin: under its usual ordering Behance hands back older work for any window, so each project's own publish date is checked and anything outside the window is left out and not charged. With a window and the default order, results come newest first, the one order Behance keeps inside the window.

maxItems is split evenly between your terms. Four terms and 200 rows gives you up to 50 of each, and a project found by two of them is written and charged once.

📋 What data you get from each Behance project

What you get	Field
The project, its link and Behance's id for it	title, url, projectId, slug
Appreciations, views and comment count	appreciations, views, comments
The creator, their public profile and the location they typed	creatorName, creatorUsername, creatorUrl, creatorLocation
The other owners, when there are several	collaborators
Behance's creative fields and the creator's own tags	creativeFields, tags
When it went up, and a link to the cover	publishedAt, coverImage
The term that found it, and when it was read	query, scrapedAt

▶️ How to scrape Behance projects

1. Open Behance Projects Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Type your searches into Search terms, one per line.
3. Set Maximum projects, then pick Sort by and Published within if the defaults aren't what you want.
4. Under Filters, choose a Creative field (optional) to stay inside one field.
5. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the API.

Clear the search terms and start it to see one labelled sample row, which is not charged.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Behance projects?

$3.70 per 1,000 projects on the Free plan. Paid plans pay a little less: $3.65 on Starter, $3.60 on Scale and $3.55 on Business. On the free plan, the $5 Apify gives you each month covers about 1,300 projects.

You pay per project row. The sample row and diagnostic rows are never charged. Neither are off-topic results, results outside your creative field or your publish window, or a project that a second term found again.

📥 What you give it

{
  "searchTerms": ["brand identity", "packaging design"],
  "maxItems": 5,
  "sortBy": "recommended",
  "publishedWithin": "all",
  "creativeField": ""
}

Field	If you leave it empty	What it is
searchTerms	the free sample row	What to search for, up to 20 terms, one per line. The form arrives with brand identity and packaging design.
maxItems	100	Total projects across all terms, 1 to 5,000, shared evenly between them.
sortBy	recommended	recommended (Behance's default ranking), featured_date (curated by Behance), appreciations, views, comments or published_date.
publishedWithin	all	all, today (24 hours), week (7 days) or month (31 days), counted from each project's publish date. Fewer rows can come back than you asked for, since only work inside the window is kept.
creativeField	every field	One of Behance's 110 creative fields, picked from the list on the form.
proxyUrls	empty	Only if you want the requests to go out through servers of your own, as http://user:pass@host:port.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a run on 30 September 2026:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "project",
  "query": "brand identity",
  "title": "Tempo | Run Event Brand",
  "url": "https://www.behance.net/gallery/249464269/Tempo-Run-Event-Brand",
  "appreciations": 3629,
  "views": 72952,
  "comments": 219,
  "creatorName": "Omigunani | Brand Designer",
  "creatorUsername": "omigunani",
  "creatorUrl": "https://www.behance.net/omigunani",
  "creativeFields": "Branding, Graphic Design",
  "tags": "brand identity, Graphic Designer, visual identity, Logo Design, branding, design, photoshop, adobe illustrator, Social media post, Socialmedia",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T15:32:36.000Z",
  "coverImage": "https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/projects/max_808/508d7c249464269.Y3JvcCw1NTIzLDQzMjAsMTA4MCww.png",
  "slug": "Tempo-Run-Event-Brand",
  "projectId": "249464269",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T02:24:19.294Z"
}

Field	How to read it
query	The term that found this project.
appreciations, views, comments	Behance's counts when the run read them. The comments themselves aren't returned.
creatorName, creatorUsername, creatorUrl	The first owner and their public profile.
creatorLocation	Whatever the creator typed on their profile. Free text, often blank.
collaborators	The other owners' names, comma separated, when a project has more than one.
creativeFields, tags	Behance's categories for the project and the creator's own tags, each as one comma-separated string.
coverImage	A link to the cover at up to 808 pixels wide. Nothing is downloaded.
projectId	Behance's id for the project, safe as a key between runs.

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in the dataset.

Row	How to spot it	Charged
A project	recordType: "project"	yes
The sample row	_sample: true and recordType: "sample"	no
A diagnostic	_diagnostic: true, with an errorCode and a details sentence	no

The sample row only appears when there are no search terms. Filter on recordType being project to keep just the projects.

errorCode	What it means
NO_RESULTS	Behance had nothing for that term, or everything it had carried none of your words or was published outside your window.
BAD_INPUT	Behance rejected the search itself. details quotes its reason.
RATE_LIMITED, NETWORK	Behance didn't answer properly this time. Worth running again.
NOT_SERVED	This project was not served this run. Re-run it later. Until 12 October 2026 this code was called BLOCKED.
TIME_BUDGET and the rest	Rare. The details sentence says what happened. A TIME_BUDGET row means the run hit its time limit with search terms left; nothing was charged for those, and the run ends as failed only when the time limit stopped it before any project came back.

💡 What people use it for

• Finding the designers behind work you like in a category.
• Watching what's doing well in a field: sort by appreciations, set the past week, run it on a schedule and compare projectId with last time.
• A reference board without two hundred screenshots. Every row has the cover link and the creator's own tags.
• Checking how a style or a term is actually used on Behance before naming your own project that way.

🚧 What it does not do

• More than 1,000 projects per search term. Behance stops there. Use more terms for a wider net.
• Contact details. No emails, phone numbers, social handles, rates or availability.
• Open the projects. You get the cover link and the numbers from the search, not the images inside, the description or the comments.
• Download images. coverImage is a link, and fetching it is up to you.
• A creator's whole portfolio. The input is a search, not a username.
• Custom date ranges. Only all time, today, the past week and the past month.
• Explain "Recommended". That's Behance's own ranking and its rules aren't published. Sort by a number if you need an order you can defend.
• It is not an official Behance tool. Dami's Studio is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Behance or Adobe, or by any other company named on this page.

🧭 Which design scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
Behance projects for a search, with the creator and the numbers	This one
Pins for a keyword, with the image and the link it came from	Pinterest Scraper
Instagram posts under a hashtag	Instagram Hashtag Scraper
Designers selling gigs on Fiverr, with prices and delivery times	Fiverr Scraper
Google Images tiles for a search, with the page each one sits on	Google Images Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Behance account or an API key?

No. It reads the same public search anyone can use.

What happens if a Behance search term matches nothing?

You get one free NO_RESULTS row for it and the run carries on with your other terms.

Why did I get fewer projects than I asked for?

Behance stops each search at 1,000, off-topic results are dropped, the budget is split between terms, and a project found twice counts once.

Can I get one designer's whole Behance portfolio?

Not with this. Searching their name finds their work when the name is on their profile or in their tags, but that's a search, not a portfolio export.

Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant?

Yes. The API tab has ready-made code for Python, JavaScript and the command line. For Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client, connect https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/behance-projects-scraper. Either way the run happens on your Apify account at the same price.

Is it legal to scrape Behance, and can I use the images?

The projects are public, but every cover belongs to the designer who made it, so ask before you republish one. Creator names and locations are personal data under GDPR and similar laws, so have a reason for keeping them. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping covers the collecting side, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page and send your search terms and the run ID. The diagnostic rows in the dataset usually name the reason already.