Kickstarter Scraper

Find and export structured Kickstarter campaign data for market research, campaign discovery, competitor tracking, trend analysis, and lead generation.

Kickstarter Scraper searches public Kickstarter Discover results and returns clean, deduplicated records that are ready for analysis, spreadsheets, databases, or downstream automations.

Features

• Search by keyword, category, campaign state, and sort order.
• Use exact Kickstarter Discover URLs for advanced filters and subcategories.
• Scan multiple result pages with a configurable project and page limit.
• Combine multiple Discover URLs in one run and automatically remove duplicates.
• Get campaign funding, progress, dates, creator, category, location, media, and public links in a consistent JSON structure.
• Receive one chargeable result per unique campaign returned.

Quick start

{
  "category": "games",
  "state": "live",
  "sort": "most_funded",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPages": 5
}

For a keyword search:

{
  "searchTerm": "board game",
  "state": "live",
  "sort": "newest",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPages": 5
}

For advanced filters or a subcategory, provide the public Discover URL directly:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/crafts?sort=magic&category_id[]=26&state[]=live"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPages": 5
}

maxPages controls how many result pages are scanned for each Discover URL. maxItems controls the maximum number of unique campaign records returned.

Example tasks

Try a preconfigured workflow:

• Find Live Kickstarter Games
• Find New Live Kickstarter Games
• Find Live Kickstarter Crafts Campaigns
• Search Kickstarter with an Advanced Discover URL

Dataset fields

Each campaign is returned as one normalized JSON record.

Field	Included data
projectId, slug, url, rewardsUrl	Campaign identity and public links
title, blurb, description, status	Campaign copy and current state
goal, pledged, usdPledged, currency, percentFunded	Funding and progress metrics
backersCount, daysRemaining, deadline, createdAt, launchedAt	Campaign activity and timeline
creator	Creator name, profile, biography, and avatar data
category	Category, subcategory, parent category, and analytics names
location	Campaign location and country information
imageUrl, imageUrls, videoHighUrl, videoHlsUrl	Public campaign media
sourceUrl, dataSources, scrapedAt	Source and collection metadata

Dates are returned as ISO-8601 timestamps. Funding values retain the campaign currency, with USD values included when supplied by Kickstarter. Records are deduplicated by campaign ID and canonical URL.

Common use cases

• Discover campaigns in a market or niche.
• Monitor new, live, upcoming, and recently completed campaigns.
• Benchmark funding performance across categories.
• Build campaign databases and research datasets.
• Track competitor launches, creators, and product themes.
• Feed campaign data into Airtable, Google Sheets, CRMs, or custom applications.

Pricing

You pay per unique campaign returned, making small searches and larger catalogue runs predictable. Set maxItems and maxPages to match the size of dataset you need.

Proxy settings

The optional proxy configuration lets you use Apify Proxy or provide a private HTTP/HTTPS proxy when required by your workflow.

Local development

npm install
npm test
apify run