Behance Creator History & Analytics Scraper 🎨📈

Most Behance scrapers hand you a flat list of projects. This one reconstructs a creator's entire career. Give it a username and get the full chronological portfolio, per-project engagement (views, appreciations, comments), a year-by-year timeline, and ready-made analytics — growth trend, top projects, and the tools, fields and colors that define their work.

Built for talent research, creator scouting, competitive analysis, trend studies and portfolio benchmarking. No login, no setup — enter a username and press Start.

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✨ What makes this different

Other scrapers give you what a creator posted. This one tells you how their career evolved:

• 🕰️ Full chronological history — every project from the first to the latest, with exact publish dates.
• 📊 Per-project engagement — views, appreciations and comments for each piece.
• 📈 Career timeline — projects and engagement aggregated by year, so you can see rise, peak and pace.
• 🧠 Derived analytics — total & average engagement, most-viewed & most-appreciated projects, an engagement trend (rising / stable / declining), publishing frequency and active-years.
• 🎨 Creative breakdown — the fields, tools and dominant colors that characterize the creator's body of work.
• 👤 Profile snapshot — followers, location, company, occupation, website and Creator-Pro status.

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📦 Output per creator (one record)

{
  "username": "pixelbuddha",
  "url": "https://www.behance.net/pixelbuddha",
  "profile": {
    "displayName": "Pixelbuddha",
    "location": "…", "country": "…", "company": "…", "occupation": "…",
    "website": "…", "avatar": "…", "isCreatorPro": true,
    "followers": 120000, "following": 42,
    "profileAppreciations": 350000, "profileViews": 5200000,
    "fields": ["Graphic Design", "UI/UX"]
  },
  "career": {
    "totalProjects": 87,
    "firstProjectDate": "2013-04-11T…", "lastProjectDate": "2026-07-30T…",
    "activeYears": 13, "avgProjectsPerYear": 6.7, "featuredProjects": 24
  },
  "engagement": {
    "totalViews": 2400000, "totalAppreciations": 180000, "totalComments": 5400,
    "avgViewsPerProject": 27586, "avgAppreciationsPerProject": 2069,
    "mostViewedProject": { "name": "…", "url": "…", "views": 210000, "appreciations": 9800, "year": 2019 },
    "mostAppreciatedProject": { "name": "…", "url": "…", "appreciations": 12400, "year": 2018 },
    "engagementTrend": "rising"
  },
  "timeline": [
    { "year": 2013, "projects": 4, "views": 82000, "appreciations": 3100, "comments": 90 },
    { "year": 2014, "projects": 9, "views": 210000, "appreciations": 9800, "comments": 240 }
  ],
  "topProjects": [ { "name": "…", "url": "…", "views": 210000, "appreciations": 12400, "year": 2018 } ],
  "breakdown": {
    "topFields": [ { "name": "Graphic Design", "count": 61 }, { "name": "UI/UX", "count": 22 } ],
    "topTools":  [ { "name": "Photoshop", "count": 40 } ],
    "topColors": ["#1c1963", "#f4f4f4"]
  },
  "projects": [
    {
      "id": 54614713, "name": "…", "url": "…",
      "publishedOn": "2017-07-24T…", "year": 2017,
      "views": 14598, "appreciations": 682, "comments": 0,
      "fields": ["Branding"], "tools": ["Illustrator"], "colors": ["#1c1963"],
      "isFeatured": true, "coverImage": "…"
    }
  ]
}

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🚀 Quick start

1. Enter one or more Behance usernames (or paste profile URLs).
2. Optionally turn off Include full project list if you only want the analytics.
3. Click Start and export to JSON, CSV, Excel — or fetch via API.

Example input

{
  "usernames": ["pixelbuddha", "adobe"],
  "includeProjectList": true,
  "maxProjectsPerCreator": 0
}

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💡 Use cases

• Talent scouting & recruiting — evaluate a designer's real output, consistency and momentum, not just a follower count.
• Creator/influencer vetting — verify engagement quality and career trajectory before a collaboration.
• Competitive & market analysis — benchmark studios and creators by output, engagement and focus areas.
• Trend research — see which fields, tools and styles a cohort of creators leans on over time.
• Portfolio analytics — build dashboards of a creator's growth and best-performing work.

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🔌 Run via API

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("YOUR_ACTOR_ID").call(run_input={
    "usernames": ["pixelbuddha"],
    "includeProjectList": True,
})
for creator in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(creator["username"], creator["career"]["totalProjects"],
          creator["engagement"]["engagementTrend"])

JavaScript / Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('YOUR_ACTOR_ID').call({ usernames: ['adobe'] });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items[0].timeline);

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❓ FAQ

What do I provide? Just Behance usernames (or profile URLs). Each creator becomes one rich record.

How far back does the history go? The entire public portfolio — from the first published project to the most recent.

How is the engagement trend calculated? By comparing average appreciations across the newer half of the career versus the older half (rising / stable / declining). It needs at least four projects to be meaningful.

Can I get only the analytics without every project? Yes — turn off Include full project list to keep just the profile, career, engagement, timeline and breakdown.

Does it need a login or API key? No.

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⚖️ Legal & responsible use

This actor collects publicly available portfolio information for legitimate purposes such as talent research, analytics and market research. It does not access private or personal data beyond what creators publish publicly. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Behance or Adobe — all product and company names are trademarks of their respective owners.

You are responsible for how you use the collected data. Use it in compliance with applicable laws (including the GDPR), the target website's Terms of Service, and relevant data-protection rules. Respect rate limits and use the data ethically.

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💬 Support & feedback

Want extra metrics, a different aggregation, or another creative platform covered? Open an issue or send a message — feature requests are welcome and the actor is actively maintained.