Kickstarter Campaign Scraper

Collect validated public Kickstarter campaign records by search term or direct project URL. It is designed for product scouts, market researchers, and crowdfunding analysts who need consistent campaign funding and timeline fields—not private backer or creator-account data.

What it returns

One dataset item represents one public campaign. The actor keeps a stable, flat record shape and uses null when an optional public field is unavailable.

Field group	Examples
Identity	campaignId, campaignUrl, name, blurb
Funding	currency, goal, pledged, usdPledged, backersCount, percentFunded
Context	creatorName, category, parentCategory, location, country
Timing	state, launchedAt, deadline, scrapedAt
Provenance	sourceMode, searchQuery, sourceUrl

When to use it

Use it to identify public crowdfunding campaigns, monitor a niche, compare goals with pledges, or enrich a known list of public Kickstarter campaign URLs.

Do not use it for individual backer data, account access, creator dashboards, pledge exports, or non-Kickstarter pages. It only handles public campaign and Discover pages.

Input

{
    "searchQueries": ["board game"],
    "categories": ["games"],
    "states": ["live"],
    "sort": "newest",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "maxPagesPerSeed": 1,
    "enrichDetails": true
}

Alternatively, scrape specific public campaigns:

{
    "searchQueries": [],
    "projectUrls": ["https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/example/my-campaign"],
    "maxResults": 1
}

Output

{
    "campaignId": "123456789",
    "campaignUrl": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/example/my-campaign",
    "name": "Example Campaign",
    "creatorName": "Example Studio",
    "parentCategory": "Games",
    "goal": 20000,
    "pledged": 30500,
    "backersCount": 712,
    "percentFunded": 152.5,
    "state": "live",
    "sourceMode": "search",
    "searchQuery": "board game",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-14T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Price	When it is charged
Actor start	$0.00005	Once per run, scaled by memory
Validated campaign record	$0.01	Only after a complete, schema-valid campaign record is persisted

For the default 5-record cap, event charges are at most $0.05, plus Apify platform compute and residential-proxy usage. The actor displays this cap when it starts and never charges a campaign record that was not persisted.

Run outcomes

Every run writes OUTPUT and RUN_SUMMARY in the default key-value store.

• COMPLETE — all requested public records were processed.
• PARTIAL — useful records were saved, but some pages failed.
• VALID_EMPTY — the public query completed with no matching campaigns.
• INVALID_INPUT — correct the input; no campaign events are charged.
• UPSTREAM_FAILED — Kickstarter blocked or failed every required route before any result could be saved.

Limits and responsible use

Kickstarter can change its public page structure or challenge automated traffic. This actor uses a conservative browser session, residential proxy defaults, low concurrency, retries, and explicit diagnostics; it does not claim that an upstream challenge was a valid empty result. Use it only for data you are authorized to collect and use, and respect applicable law, platform terms, and privacy obligations.