Patreon Scraper & Creator Analytics Extractor 🎯🎨

A high-performance, lightweight, and reliable Apify Actor to extract Patreon creators, subscriber & patron counts, membership tiers, earnings visibility, and recent creator posts (likes, comments, media) directly from Patreon's internal REST APIs.

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🌟 Key Features

• 🔍 Dual-Mode Discovery:
  • Keyword Discovery (search_keywords): Discover creators across niches and categories (e.g. podcast, gaming, art, education).
  • Direct Creator URLs (creator_urls): Resolve targeted creator pages (e.g. https://www.patreon.com/coldones).
• 👥 Audience & Patron Analytics: Active patron counts (patrons_count), active tiers count (tiers_count), NSFW status (is_nsfw), and earnings visibility mode.
• 📝 Post & Engagement Extraction: Recent posts, publish dates, post URLs, like counts, comment counts, and tier lock status.
• ⚡ Zero-Browser Footprint: Direct REST API consumption without headless browser overhead or heavy memory requirements.
• 📦 Apify SDK v2+ & Storage Standards: Full local storage sandbox support (storage/) and standard dataset output.

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📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
search_keywords	Array<String>	["podcast"]	Keywords to discover Patreon creators.
creator_urls	Array<String>	[]	List of direct Patreon creator profile URLs.
max_creators	Integer	10	Maximum number of creators to scrape.
include_posts	Boolean	true	Whether to extract recent posts, likes, and comments for each creator.
max_posts_per_creator	Integer	10	Maximum number of recent posts to scrape per creator.
proxy_configuration	Object	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Optional Apify or custom proxy settings.

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📦 Output Dataset Schema

Each creator record pushed to the default dataset matches the official schema:

{
  "creator_id": "2367908",
  "creator_name": "Cold Ones",
  "slug": "coldones",
  "url": "https://www.patreon.com/coldones",
  "creation_name": "a Podcast",
  "summary": "Everything we can't show you on YouTube...",
  "patrons_count": 28450,
  "avatar_url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/...",
  "tiers_count": 4,
  "is_nsfw": false,
  "earnings_visibility": "private",
  "posts": [
    {
      "post_id": "98127391",
      "title": "Cold Ones Uncut - Episode 142",
      "published_at": "2026-09-12T18:00:00.000Z",
      "url": "https://www.patreon.com/posts/98127391",
      "like_count": 1420,
      "comment_count": 312,
      "is_paid": true
    }
  ],
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-14T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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🧪 Local Testing

Run the Actor locally inside the isolated storage sandbox:

$python test_local.py

Results are stored in storage/datasets/default/.

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🚀 Deployment to Apify Cloud

Deploy and build on Apify platform with a single command:

$python deploy.py --yes