Patreon Creator Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

Every public Patreon creator page embeds the campaign's own stats in its page JSON — patron count, paid member count, pledge currency, one-liner, cover art, and more. This Actor pulls that JSON straight off patreon.com/<creator> for one creator or a batch of them at once and normalizes it into a clean row per campaign: subscriber counts, revenue signals, and creator metadata ready for competitor research, market sizing, or creator-monitoring dashboards.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 📦 Batch by design — pass one creator or a hundred in a single run; each is fetched and classified independently.
• 🧭 Clear outcome classification — not-found, no-active-campaign, and unsupported-template pages are distinguished from real failures, so a mixed batch never crashes your run.
• 🔁 We retry with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx and honour Retry-After — up to 5 attempts per page.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 You pay only for results that land. No campaign data, no charge — only the small actor-start warm-up fee.

💡 Use cases

• Competitor research — benchmark patron counts and pledge revenue across creators in the same niche.
• Market sizing — estimate the addressable Patreon audience for a content category before launching a membership.
• Creator monitoring — track subscriber and revenue trend signals for creators you follow or represent.
• Lead generation — surface active, well-funded creators for sponsorship or partnership outreach.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
creators	array	yes	['philosophytube', 'contrapoints']	Patreon creator vanity slugs (e.g. 'philosophytube') or full profile URLs (e.g.…
proxyConfiguration	object	no	RESIDENTIAL (US)	Apify Proxy configuration. Patreon serves a Cloudflare challenge to datacenter IPs, so the RESIDENTIAL group is required and preset.

Example input

{
  "creators": [
    "philosophytube",
    "contrapoints"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
creator_input	string	The raw creators[] entry this row was resolved from (slug or URL, as supplied).
campaign_id	string	Patreon's numeric campaign id (JSON:API data.id), kept as a string.
name	string	Campaign / creator display name.
vanity	string	Creator's vanity URL slug.
url	string	Canonical Patreon profile URL.
one_liner	string	Creator's short tagline.
summary	string	Campaign summary (HTML).
patron_count	integer	Total patron count.
paid_member_count	integer	Paying member count.
pledge_sum_currency	string	Currency code of the pledge total, e.g. 'EUR'.
campaign_currency	string	Campaign's own default currency, e.g. 'USD' — can differ from pledge_sum_currency for legacy campaigns.
is_monthly	boolean	Whether the campaign bills monthly.
pay_per_name	string	Billing cadence label, e.g. 'month'.
creation_count	integer	Number of posts/creations published.
avatar_photo_url	string	Creator avatar image URL.
cover_photo_url	string	Campaign cover image URL.
pledge_url	string	Join / pledge URL for the campaign.
published_at	string	ISO 8601 campaign publish date.
is_nsfw	boolean	Whether the campaign is flagged NSFW.
offers_paid_membership	boolean	Whether the campaign offers a paid membership tier.
offers_free_membership	boolean	Whether the campaign offers a free membership tier.
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 UTC row creation timestamp.

Example output

{
  "creator_input": "philosophytube",
  "campaign_id": "9198",
  "name": "Philosophy Tube",
  "vanity": "philosophytube",
  "url": "https://www.patreon.com/philosophytube",
  "one_liner": "Philosophy videos for the people",
  "summary": "<p>...</p>",
  "patron_count": 12345,
  "paid_member_count": 8901,
  "pledge_sum_currency": "EUR",
  "campaign_currency": "USD",
  "is_monthly": true,
  "pay_per_name": "month",
  "creation_count": 210,
  "avatar_photo_url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/...",
  "cover_photo_url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/...",
  "pledge_url": "https://www.patreon.com/join/philosophytube",
  "published_at": "2015-03-02T00:00:00+00:00",
  "is_nsfw": false,
  "offers_paid_membership": true,
  "offers_free_membership": true,
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-15T12:00:00+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.2	One-off warm-up charge per run
result	$0.006	Per dataset item

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $6.20. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

This Actor returns campaign-level aggregate stats — patron count, paid member count, pledge currency, and related campaign metadata — not per-patron or per-pledge rows, since that detail isn't published on the public creator page. Some vanity slugs resolve to an alternate Patreon page template with no embedded campaign JSON; those are skipped with a status message rather than guessed at.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Patreon account to use this Actor?

No — the Actor reads the public campaign data every creator page already publishes. Enter the creator's vanity slug or profile URL and run.

What happens if a creator slug doesn't exist or has no active campaign?

That entry is skipped with a clear status message and the run still succeeds — a missing creator or an inactive campaign is a normal outcome, not a failure.

Can I pass a full profile URL instead of a slug?

Yes — both 'philosophytube' and 'https://www.patreon.com/philosophytube' resolve to the same creator.

Does this return per-patron or per-pledge data?

No — this Actor returns campaign-level aggregate stats (patron count, paid member count, pledge currency, and similar fields), not individual patron or pledge records.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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