Tumblbug Crowdfunding Scraper 🚀

Scrape ranked, categorized, and searched crowdfunding projects from Tumblbug (텀블벅) — Korea's #1 creative crowdfunding platform — as clean, structured JSON. Get project titles, the maker/team name, category, amount raised (KRW), funding rate, backer counts, live/succeeded status, and cover images in one call.

Built for pre-retail Korean product-trend research, market discovery, and crowdfunding analytics. Tumblbug is where Korean products, games, books, and goods launch before they hit retail — pair this with fashion/e-commerce scrapers for an early-signal trend bundle.

Try it free. Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly platform credit — roughly 2,000 results from this actor, no credit card required. Set your input, click Start, and export JSON/CSV/Excel.

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What it does

Tumblbug is a client-rendered SPA, so the raw HTML has no project list. This actor calls the same public JSON API the Tumblbug web app uses to render its "Discover" feed and search results — so results are fast and complete, with no fragile HTML scraping. Two modes:

• Ranking — the "Discover" feed of ongoing projects, sorted by popular, newest, or ending soon, optionally filtered by category. Each item includes its rank.
• Search — every project matching a keyword (e.g. 타로카드, board game, keycap).

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Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	string	"ranking" or "search".
query	string	Search mode only: a keyword. Required for search mode.
category	string	Ranking mode only, optional: a category slug (see below). Blank = all categories.
sort	string	Ranking mode only: "popular", "publishedAt" (newest), or "endedAt" (ending soon). Default popular.
maxItems	integer	Max projects to collect. Default 100.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. RESIDENTIAL recommended for large runs. Runs direct if omitted.

Common category slugs (ranking mode)

Slug	Category
publication	Books / e-books
board-games-and-trpg	Board games & TRPG
digital-games	Video / mobile games
character-and-goods	Characters & goods
perfumes-and-beauty	Beauty & perfume
food	Food
technology-and-household-appliance	Tech & appliances
assorted-goods	Accessories
webtoon-resources	Webtoon / comic resources

Input example

{
  "mode": "ranking",
  "sort": "popular",
  "category": "board-games-and-trpg",
  "maxItems": 100
}

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "타로카드",
  "maxItems": 200
}

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Output

Each project is one dataset record. amount_raised_krw is in Korean won; funding_rate is the funded percentage of the goal (e.g. 2152 = 2,152% funded). rank reflects the order in the requested feed.

{
  "source": "tumblbug",
  "project_id": "68ffc8ac-5526-4357-86fb-8eee2a462779",
  "title": "설정문서까지 연결되는 창작자용 세계지도",
  "maker": "월드모멘트",
  "category": "앱 · 웹 서비스",
  "amount_raised_krw": 10762000,
  "funding_rate": 2152,
  "backer_count": 304,
  "status": "live",
  "rank": 1,
  "url": "https://tumblbug.com/worldnote",
  "image_url": "https://img.tumblbug.com/...",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-09T13:38:08+09:00"
}

A full 40-item sample from a real run is in samples/sample-output.json.

Field	Meaning
source	Always "tumblbug".
project_id	Tumblbug project UUID.
title	Project title.
maker	Public project/team/brand display name (like a shop name).
category	Category display name.
amount_raised_krw	Total amount pledged so far (KRW).
funding_rate	Percent of the funding goal reached.
backer_count	Number of backers/pledges.
status	live, succeeded, or ended.
rank	Position in the requested feed.
url	Project page URL.
image_url	Cover image URL.
scraped_at	ISO-8601 timestamp (KST, UTC+9).

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Use cases

• Pre-retail trend research — spot which Korean products, games, and goods are over-funding before they reach retail, then bundle with e-commerce scrapers (Musinsa, 29CM) for a full trend pipeline.
• Market discovery & sourcing — build a catalog of trending, validated-demand Korean products with images, makers, and funding traction.
• Crowdfunding analytics — track funding_rate, amount_raised_krw, and backer_count across categories over time.
• AI agents & datasets — feed structured crowdfunding data into recommendation models, dashboards, or LLM agents.

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❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape this data? This actor collects only public, non-personal catalog data — the same project listings any visitor sees on Tumblbug without logging in. No personal data is collected (maker is a public project/brand name, and backer identities are never touched). You are responsible for how you use the data; see the legality note below.

What does it cost in practice? $2.50 per 1,000 results (launch pricing), plus a few cents of platform usage. Example: a 500-result daily pull costs about $1.25/day. Apify's free $5 monthly credit covers ~2,000 results.

Do I need to configure proxies? No — the default settings work out of the box. For large runs at high maxItems, enabling Apify Proxy with the RESIDENTIAL group is optional scaling advice that makes runs more reliable (see the proxy recommendation below).

How fresh is the data? Every run calls Tumblbug's live API at run time. Schedule the actor for recurring snapshots.

What is NOT included? No personal data of any kind — no backer identities, no private names or contacts. Only the public feed/search fields listed above are returned; per-project detail-page content (e.g. full descriptions, reward tiers) is not collected.

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🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

Call this Actor as a tool from Claude or any MCP-compatible AI agent — no glue code. Point your MCP client at Apify's server, scoped to this Actor:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=kdatafactory/tumblbug-scraper",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

Your agent can then pull Tumblbug crowdfunding projects & trends on demand — no scraping code in your app. Grab a free token from Apify → Integrations.

🇰🇷 More Korean data actors

This actor is part of a suite of Korean-platform scrapers by the same maintainer:

• wadiz-scraper — Wadiz crowdfunding projects, Korea's other major funding platform.
• musinsa-scraper — Musinsa fashion e-commerce product and ranking data.
• 29cm-scraper — 29CM curated lifestyle & fashion product listings.

Browse all: apify.com/kdatafactory

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Rate limiting & legality

• The actor collects only public, non-authenticated data from Tumblbug's own web API. It never logs in and never touches private endpoints.
• No personal data is collected. maker is the public project/team/brand display name (like a shop name) shown on the project page — never a private person's real name, contact, or profile. No backer identities are ever collected.
• Requests are rate-limited: one page at a time with a ≥ 500 ms delay between requests, to stay gentle on Tumblbug's servers.
• You are responsible for using the data in line with Tumblbug's terms of service and applicable law.

⚠️ Proxy recommendation

Tumblbug may throttle datacenter IPs or high request volumes. For reliable runs — especially at higher maxItems — enable Apify Proxy with the RESIDENTIAL group. The actor automatically uses the proxy configuration you provide and falls back to a direct connection when none is set (or when a proxy tunnel fails). If you see repeated API HTTP 403/429 errors in the log, switch on residential proxy.

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