# Kick Streamer & Category Leaderboard Scraper (`jungle_synthesizer/kick-com-streamer-category-scraper`) Actor

Scrape live Kick.com streamer leaderboards by category — viewer counts, stream titles, and channel profiles (bio, follower count, social links). Pick specific categories or let it auto-discover the top trending ones each run.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/jungle\_synthesizer/kick-com-streamer-category-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [BowTiedRaccoon](https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.40 / 1,000 record scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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# README

## Kick Streamer & Category Leaderboard Scraper

Scrape live streamer leaderboards from [Kick.com](https://kick.com) by category. Returns viewer counts, stream titles, and full channel profiles — bio, follower count, social links — for whoever's currently live in Just Chatting, GTA V, IRL, or any of Kick's 12,000+ categories.

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### Kick Streamer & Category Leaderboard Scraper Features

- Returns the top live streamers per category, ranked by current viewer count
- Pulls full channel profiles — bio, follower count, Instagram/Twitter/YouTube/Discord/TikTok links — for every streamer in the leaderboard
- Auto-discovers the top trending categories by live viewer count when you don't name specific ones
- Scrape multiple categories in a single run and dedup overlap automatically
- Lightweight mode available — skip channel enrichment for a faster, cheaper viewer-count-only snapshot
- No account or login required to run

***

### Who Uses Kick Streamer Data?

- **Talent agencies and brand-safety teams** — track which streamers are trending in a category before pitching a sponsorship
- **Market researchers** — measure category-level viewership trends on Kick over time (gambling, IRL, esports)
- **Competitive-intelligence teams** — watch how Kick's live audience compares category to category, or run it daily and diff the leaderboard
- **Growth and influencer-marketing agencies** — build outreach lists of streamers with real follower counts and working social links, not guesses

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### How Kick Streamer & Category Leaderboard Scraper Works

1. Pick categories, or leave it blank — the scraper auto-discovers the top trending ones by current live viewer count.
2. For each category, it pulls the live leaderboard: who's streaming, what they're playing, and how many people are watching right now.
3. For each streamer on that leaderboard, it fetches the full channel profile — bio, follower count, social links — unless you turn that off for a lighter run.
4. Everything lands in your dataset as flat, ready-to-use rows. No further cleanup needed.

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### Input

```json
{
  "categories": ["just-chatting", "grand-theft-auto-v"],
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

Or leave `categories` empty to auto-scrape whatever's trending:

```json
{
  "topCategoriesCount": 10,
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `categories` | array of strings | `[]` | Specific Kick category slugs to scrape (e.g. `"just-chatting"`, `"grand-theft-auto-v"` — find the slug in the category URL `kick.com/category/<slug>`). Leave empty to auto-scrape the top trending categories instead. |
| `topCategoriesCount` | integer | `10` | When `categories` is empty, how many top trending categories (by current live viewer count) to auto-discover and scrape. |
| `maxStreamersPerCategory` | integer | `24` | Cap on live streamers pulled per category. Kick's own category page surfaces up to 24 currently-live streamers ranked by viewer count — lower this to pull only the very top of each leaderboard. |
| `includeChannelDetails` | boolean | `true` | Fetch each streamer's full channel profile (bio, social links, follower count). Turn off for a lighter, viewer-count-only leaderboard snapshot. |
| `maxItems` | integer | `15` | Maximum number of streamer rows to scrape across all selected categories. |

#### Resuming a large crawl

Every run emits a `resumeCursor` in its Output. If a large crawl stops before it finishes — because it hit `maxItems`, your spend cap (`maxTotalChargeUsd`), or was aborted — start a new run with **the same input** plus that `resumeCursor` to continue from where it left off. The crawl resumes from the queued work the previous run didn't reach.

- You are **not re-charged** for records the earlier run already delivered.
- Resume within your account's run-retention window — on the free tier, roughly your 10 most recent runs. Once the source run is pruned, its `resumeCursor` is no longer valid.
- `resumeCursor` is opaque — supply it unmodified.

***

### Kick Streamer & Category Leaderboard Scraper Output Fields

```json
{
  "streamer_name": "exampleStreamer",
  "streamer_url": "https://kick.com/examplestreamer",
  "is_live": true,
  "current_viewers": 34279,
  "title": "Chatting with the chat, come say hi",
  "category": "Just Chatting",
  "category_url": "https://kick.com/category/just-chatting",
  "language": "English",
  "mature_flag": false,
  "followers_count": 205051,
  "profile_image_url": "https://files.kick.com/images/user/.../profile_image.webp",
  "bio": "Streaming daily. Business inquiries only.",
  "social_links": {
    "instagram": "examplestreamer",
    "twitter": "examplestreamer",
    "youtube": "channel/UCexample",
    "discord": null,
    "tiktok": "examplestreamer",
    "facebook": null
  },
  "last_live_at": "2026-08-11T00:48:59.000Z",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-11T03:37:49.749Z"
}
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `streamer_name` | string | Streamer's Kick username |
| `streamer_url` | string | Canonical URL of the streamer's Kick channel |
| `is_live` | boolean | Whether the streamer is currently live at scrape time |
| `current_viewers` | integer | Current live viewer count (null if offline) |
| `title` | string | Current or most recent stream title |
| `category` | string | Category name the streamer was scraped under |
| `category_url` | string | Canonical URL of the category |
| `language` | string | Stream language |
| `mature_flag` | boolean | Whether the stream is flagged mature/18+ |
| `followers_count` | integer | Total channel followers |
| `profile_image_url` | string | Streamer's profile picture URL |
| `bio` | string | Streamer's channel bio text (present only when `includeChannelDetails` is on) |
| `social_links` | object | Streamer's linked social accounts — Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Discord, TikTok, Facebook (present only when `includeChannelDetails` is on) |
| `last_live_at` | string | Start time of the current or most recent live session (ISO-8601), where known |
| `scraped_at` | string | ISO-8601 timestamp when this record was scraped |

Kick doesn't publish subscriber counts anywhere — not on the site, not in any endpoint — so that field isn't in the output. If Kick starts exposing it, we'll add it.

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### FAQ

#### How do I scrape Kick.com streamer data?

Kick Streamer & Category Leaderboard Scraper needs no login and no API key. Give it one or more category slugs — or nothing at all — and it returns the current live leaderboard for each, enriched with channel profiles.

#### How much does Kick Streamer & Category Leaderboard Scraper cost to run?

You're charged per streamer row returned. Turn off `includeChannelDetails` if you only need viewer counts and titles — it cuts the per-row cost roughly in half since it skips the channel-profile fetch.

#### What data can I get from Kick.com with this scraper?

Live viewer counts, stream titles, category assignments, and full channel profiles — bio, follower count, and social links for Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Discord, and TikTok. Subscriber counts aren't available; Kick doesn't publish them anywhere.

#### Can I filter by category?

Yes. Pass one or more category slugs in `categories` (find them in the URL — `kick.com/category/just-chatting` → `just-chatting`). Leave it empty and the scraper auto-picks whatever's trending by live viewer count.

#### Do I need an account or API key for Kick.com?

No. Kick Streamer & Category Leaderboard Scraper runs without any Kick account, login, or API key.

***

### Need More Features?

Need custom fields, filters, or a different target site? [File an issue](https://console.apify.com/actors/issues) or get in touch.

### Why Use Kick Streamer & Category Leaderboard Scraper?

- **No account required** — run it cold, no Kick login or API key to manage
- **Full channel enrichment, not just a viewer count** — bio, follower count, and working social links come back on every row, so you're not stitching together three tools to build an outreach list
- **Category-aware** — name specific categories or let it auto-track whatever's trending; either way, the leaderboard shape stays the same

# Actor input Schema

## `sp_intended_usage` (type: `string`):

What will this data feed? E.g. lead lists, KYB checks, price tracking.

## `sp_improvement_suggestions` (type: `string`):

Provide any feedback or suggestions for improvements.

## `sp_contact` (type: `string`):

We'll personally help with your use case. No spam.

## `resumeCursor` (type: `string`):

Leave empty for a fresh crawl. To CONTINUE a previous run where it stopped — without paying again for records you already received — paste the `resumeCursor` value from that run's Output (the run's OUTPUT key). Resume promptly: the previous run's data expires with your account's retention window (free tier: your ~10 most recent runs).

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Specific Kick category/subcategory slugs to scrape (e.g. "just-chatting", "grand-theft-auto-v" — find the slug in the category URL kick.com/category/<slug>). Kick has 12,000+ constantly-rotating subcategories, so this is free text rather than a dropdown. Leave empty to auto-scrape the top trending categories by current live viewer count.

## `topCategoriesCount` (type: `integer`):

When `categories` is empty, how many top trending Kick categories (ranked by current live viewer count) to auto-discover and scrape.

## `maxStreamersPerCategory` (type: `integer`):

Cap on live streamers pulled per category. Kick's category page surfaces up to 24 currently-live streamers ranked by viewer count; lower this to pull only the very top of each leaderboard.

## `includeChannelDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch each streamer's full channel profile (bio, social links, follower count) — one extra request per streamer row. Disable for a lighter, viewer-count-only leaderboard snapshot.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of streamer rows to scrape across all selected categories.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
  "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
  "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
  "categories": [],
  "topCategoriesCount": 10,
  "maxStreamersPerCategory": 24,
  "includeChannelDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
    "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
    "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
    "categories": [],
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/kick-com-streamer-category-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
    "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
    "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
    "categories": [],
    "maxItems": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/kick-com-streamer-category-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
  "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
  "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
  "categories": [],
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call jungle_synthesizer/kick-com-streamer-category-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,jungle_synthesizer/kick-com-streamer-category-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/zEwmkH8K9oq2PTo9c/builds/BlHNbhVyfJ91fotfm/openapi.json