Japan Crowdfunding Scraper — Makuake, CAMPFIRE

Collect project data from the Japanese reward-crowdfunding platforms CAMPFIRE (camp-fire.jp) and Makuake (makuake.com) in one English-language format: goal, amount raised, percent funded, number of backers, start and end dates, days left, status (live / upcoming / successful / ended), funding model and the price range of the rewards.

Use it to:

• spot fast-growing Japanese projects (gadgets, outdoor, food, beauty…) for import, distribution or retail deals;
• compare how products perform on the two platforms;
• track a list of projects day by day (schedule the run with your project URLs);
• research categories, pricing and funding goals for your own campaign.

One record = one project. Facts only: no descriptions, images, reward texts, backer names or comments.

Quick start — verified input

Live projects from both platforms, 15 in total (split between the two):

{
    "sites": ["campfire", "makuake"],
    "status": "live",
    "maxItems": 15
}

Gadget projects on CAMPFIRE, most funded first:

{
    "sites": ["campfire"],
    "category": "technology",
    "sort": "most_funded",
    "maxItems": 40
}

Specific projects (any status, either platform):

{
    "projectUrls": [
        "https://camp-fire.jp/projects/975280/view",
        "https://www.makuake.com/project/seris/",
        "https://www.makuake.com/project/legsupport/"
    ]
}

Input

Field	What it does
sites	campfire, makuake (any spelling: "CAMPFIRE", "マクアケ"). Empty = both. maxItems is shared evenly.
status	live (default), upcoming, ended (incl. successful), successful (ended with the goal reached), any.
category	Optional: technology, product, fashion, food, beauty, art, music, sports, outdoor, film, publishing, anime, game, social-good, local, business, entertainment, cars, pets, challenge. Japanese labels work too ("ガジェット", "フード").
keyword	Optional search words. Japanese works best ("イヤホン", "キャンプ").
sort	CAMPFIRE result order: popular (default), newest, ending_soon, most_funded.
projectUrls	Project pages to read directly (up to 1,000). When set, every listed page is read and the filters above (and maxItems) are ignored.
maxItems	Maximum number of project records for the run (1–5,000), shared evenly between the platforms.
maxApiRequests	Hard cap on requests to the platforms. 0 = automatic (recommended).
proxyConfiguration	Not needed normally. If a platform refuses Apify's datacenter IPs, use Apify Proxy RESIDENTIAL with country JP.

What each platform supports

	CAMPFIRE	Makuake
How projects are found	the site's own search	the site's sitemap, newest launch first
keyword / category	searched by the site	checked after reading each project page
status live / upcoming / ended	live, upcoming (ended: paste URLs)	live, upcoming, ended
Start and end date	dates	date and time
Creator name	organisations only	organisations only

Makuake's own project lists load from a part of the site that its robots.txt closes to crawlers, so this actor reads Makuake's public sitemap instead: projects come newest launch first, and keyword/category filters are applied after each project page is read. A filtered Makuake search therefore needs more requests and may return fewer projects. For ended Makuake projects the actor starts with projects that launched more than 100 days ago.

Output

{
    "source": "CAMPFIRE (camp-fire.jp) public project pages",
    "sourceUrl": "https://camp-fire.jp/",
    "license": "Publicly available data — unofficial tool; users are responsible for compliance with the source site's terms",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-10-12T20:00:00.000Z",
    "site": "campfire",
    "siteName": "CAMPFIRE",
    "projectId": "975280",
    "projectUrl": "https://camp-fire.jp/projects/975280/view",
    "title": "イヤホン×カメラ×AI次世代3in1ワイヤレスイヤホン「JS-12 PRO」",
    "titleRedacted": false,
    "category": "テクノロジー・ガジェット",
    "categoryEn": "technology",
    "categoriesEn": ["technology"],
    "tags": ["テクノロジー・ガジェット"],
    "creatorName": null,
    "creatorNameWithheld": true,
    "creatorWithheldReason": "not_an_organisation",
    "goalJpy": 200000,
    "raisedJpy": 5763960,
    "percentFunded": 2881,
    "backers": 355,
    "fundingModel": "all_in",
    "status": "live",
    "goalReached": true,
    "startDate": "2026-09-20",
    "endDate": "2026-10-31",
    "daysLeft": 18,
    "rewardCount": 4,
    "rewardMinPriceJpy": 16200,
    "rewardMaxPriceJpy": 33750,
    "detailsWithheld": false,
    "foundVia": "search"
}

• status: live, upcoming, successful (ended with raised ≥ goal), ended (ended below the goal), unknown.
• categoryEn is the project's main category in English; categoriesEn lists every category its category label and tags belong to (a Makuake beauty project tagged スポーツ has both beauty and sports). The category filter matches categoriesEn.
• percentFunded is rounded down, as the platforms show it. All amounts are Japanese yen.
• fundingModel: all_or_nothing or all_in (null when the page does not say).
• detailsWithheld: true — an upcoming Makuake project: its public page shows only the title and the creator, so the goal, dates and rewards are left empty.
• The run's key-value store has a RUN_SUMMARY with per-platform counts and any stop reason.

Creator names

The creator is shown only when the name is clearly an organisation (株式会社, 合同会社, 一般社団法人, Inc., Ltd., a university, a local government…). Individuals, nicknames and brand handles are left out: creatorName is null and creatorNameWithheld is true. If an individual's name also appears in the title, it is replaced with [creator name withheld] (titleRedacted: true).

Common input mistakes

Mistake	Use instead
"sites": ["kickstarter"]	Only campfire and makuake are supported.
"status": "ended" with only CAMPFIRE	CAMPFIRE's search lists live and upcoming projects only — paste ended CAMPFIRE projects into projectUrls.
"category": "outdoor" with only CAMPFIRE	CAMPFIRE has no outdoor category; add makuake (its projects are checked one by one).
A profile or list page in projectUrls	Use project pages: https://camp-fire.jp/projects/<id>/view, https://www.makuake.com/project/<name>/.
A long English keyword	The sites are Japanese: try a Japanese or shorter keyword.

Empty results?

• The keyword or category matched nothing right now (the run succeeds with 0 items and a warning; nothing is charged).
• With a keyword or category, Makuake projects are checked one by one; within the request budget there may be no match. Raise maxApiRequests or drop the filter.
• A pasted project was removed or made private (HTTP 404): it is skipped and listed in RUN_SUMMARY.

How it works

• Only public pages; no login, no cookies, no CAPTCHA or bot-check workarounds.
• Every request is checked against the site's robots.txt first; pages the sites close to crawlers (for example Makuake's /api/ and comment pages) are never requested.
• One request at a time, at least 1.5 seconds apart, with a hard request budget; Retry-After is respected and refusals stop the platform instead of retrying hard.
• If a platform stops early (refusal, time limit, budget), the records already collected are kept and the run ends with complete: false in RUN_SUMMARY.
• Speed: about 1.5–2 seconds per project (one page per project plus list pages). The Quick start takes under a minute; 1,000 projects take roughly 30–40 minutes — raise the run timeout above the default 1 hour for runs of more than about 1,500 projects.

Legal and data notice

• Unofficial tool — not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by the operators of CAMPFIRE or Makuake, or their partners. Platform names are used only to describe the source of the data.
• It reads publicly available project facts only. You are responsible for complying with each platform's terms of use and with the laws that apply to your use of the data (for example copyright, unfair competition and privacy law). Some platforms restrict commercial reuse or re-publication of their content in their terms; check them before you publish or resell the data.
• Personal data / GDPR: the output is designed to contain no personal data — individual creators are withheld, and no backer information is collected. If you combine the data with other sources, you are the controller of any personal data that results.
• Attribution: each record names its source (source, sourceUrl) and the time it was retrieved (retrievedAt). Please keep the source attribution when you share the data.