Patreon Scraper — Earnings, Tiers & Patron Counts

Scrape public Patreon creators by username or URL and get one clean, structured record per creator: profile, membership tiers and prices, patron and paid‑member counts, an estimated monthly earnings range, social links, and (optionally) recent posts with engagement. Includes keyword creator search for discovery. HTTP‑only, no login required, and built for AI agents (MCP‑ready).

Most Patreon scrapers only pull post content. This one is a creator‑intelligence tool: it surfaces the financial picture — tiers, member counts, and an earnings estimate — that sponsorship scouts and analysts actually need.

What you can do

• Profile a creator → tiers, prices, patron count, paid‑member count, earnings estimate, socials.
• Pull recent posts → title, type, publish date, likes, comments, paywall status.
• Discover creators → search any keyword and get matching creators back.

When to use it

• Sponsorship & influencer scouting — size a creator's paying audience and tier economics before you reach out.
• Creator‑economy research — benchmark tiers, pricing, and membership across a niche.
• Competitor / market tracking — monitor a roster of creators over time.
• AI agents — a single, predictable tool call that returns structured creator data.

Not for: the list of individual patrons (Patreon never exposes the patron roster publicly — this actor returns aggregate counts, not names), and not for private/paid post bodies unless you supply your own logged‑in session_id.

Output — creator record

Field	Description
recordType	creator or post
campaignId / creatorId	Patreon numeric ids
vanity	Creator handle
creatorName / campaignName	Display name and campaign title
url	Canonical Patreon URL
summary	Plain‑text creator description
patronCount	Total patrons (free + paid)
paidMemberCount	Paying members
tiers[]	title, monthlyPriceUsd, amountCents, isFree, description
paidTierCount, minTierUsd, maxTierUsd	Tier economics
estimatedEarningsMinUsd / estimatedEarningsMaxUsd	Estimated monthly earnings range
earningsEstimateBasis	How the estimate was derived
earningsVisibility / reportedMonthlyEarningsUsd	Actual earnings when the creator makes them public
youtubeUrl, twitterUrl, instagramUrl, facebookUrl, twitchUrl, tiktokUrl, discordUrl	Linked socials
isNsfw, isMonthly, currency, publishedAt, avatarUrl	Profile metadata
scrapedAt	ISO 8601 timestamp

Output — post record (when includePosts is on)

postId, title, teaserText, postType, publishedAt, likeCount, commentCount, isPaid, minPledgeUsdToView, url, imageUrl.

Pricing (pay‑per‑event)

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.00005
Creator scraped	$0.01 per creator
Post scraped	$0.002 per post

A typical 100‑creator run costs about $1.00. Posts are billed only when includePosts is enabled. The maxResults input is a hard cap on total billable records so cost stays predictable. Pay‑per‑usage (compute + proxy) is also available for very large jobs.

Input

{
  "creators": ["TopoTraveler", "https://www.patreon.com/EconomicsExplained"],
  "searchQueries": ["true crime podcast"],
  "includePosts": true,
  "maxPostsPerCreator": 20,
  "maxSearchResults": 20,
  "enrichSearchResults": true,
  "maxResults": 1000
}

• creators — usernames, @handles, or full creator URLs (/, /c/, /cw/, and user?u= forms all work).
• searchQueries — keywords for creator discovery.
• includePosts / maxPostsPerCreator — also scrape recent posts (newest first).
• enrichSearchResults — when true (default), each search hit gets a full profile; when false, search returns lighter cards and runs cheaper.
• sessionId (optional) — your Patreon session_id cookie, only if you want metadata for exclusive posts you already have access to. Also reads the PATREON_SESSION_ID environment variable. Never required for public data.

Example output

{
  "recordType": "creator",
  "campaignId": "12104065",
  "vanity": "TopoTraveler",
  "creatorName": "Topo Traveler",
  "campaignName": "The Official Patreon for Topo Traveler",
  "url": "https://www.patreon.com/TopoTraveler",
  "patronCount": 209,
  "paidMemberCount": 104,
  "tiers": [
    { "title": "Casual Hiker", "monthlyPriceUsd": 5, "amountCents": 500, "isFree": false },
    { "title": "Experienced Trekkers", "monthlyPriceUsd": 10, "amountCents": 1000, "isFree": false }
  ],
  "paidTierCount": 2,
  "minTierUsd": 5,
  "maxTierUsd": 10,
  "estimatedEarningsMinUsd": 520,
  "estimatedEarningsMaxUsd": 780,
  "earningsEstimateBasis": "paid_member_count (104) x tier price: low = all at cheapest paid tier ($5), high = all at median paid tier ($7.5); per-tier counts are not public",
  "earningsVisibility": "private",
  "youtubeUrl": "https://youtube.com/channel/UCeagElDDKCx75ZJiICK-VNQ",
  "currency": "USD",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-17T00:00:00.000Z"
}

How the earnings estimate works

Patreon keeps actual earnings private for most creators (earnings_visibility: "private"), and it does not publish how many members are on each tier. This actor builds an honest, first‑party estimate from data Patreon does expose: the public paid‑member count and the published tier prices.

• Low = every paid member on the cheapest paid tier.
• High = every paid member on the median paid tier (using the median, not the most expensive tier, avoids absurd numbers when a creator has a rarely‑bought high‑dollar tier).

The exact formula is recorded per record in earningsEstimateBasis. When a creator hides their patron/member count, the estimate fields are null rather than guessed. When a creator publishes real earnings, reportedMonthlyEarningsUsd carries the actual figure.

How it works

The actor talks to Patreon's own public JSON API over HTTP — no headless browser — so it is fast and cheap. Creator handles are resolved to a campaign id deterministically from the page bootstrap data, then profile, tiers, and posts are fetched from the API. Apify Proxy (automatic datacenter selection) is used by default and works against Patreon out of the box; Residential is optional if your plan includes it. Blocked requests rotate sessions and back off automatically; partial failures degrade gracefully instead of crashing the run.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is exposed through the Apify MCP server as apify--patreon-scraper. Point any MCP‑capable client (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) at it and ask in natural language — e.g. "Get the tiers and estimated earnings for the Patreon creator TopoTraveler." Input is a single handle or query; output is flat, stable JSON sized for agent context windows.

FAQ

Can it get the list of patrons/members? No. Patreon never exposes the patron roster publicly. You get aggregate patronCount and paidMemberCount, not individual names.

Why are earnings sometimes null? The creator hid their patron/member count, so there is nothing reliable to estimate from. Tiers and prices are still returned.

Do I need a Patreon account or cookies? No. Everything here is public data. A session_id cookie is optional and only affects visibility of exclusive post metadata.

Which URL formats work? username, @username, patreon.com/username, /c/username, /cw/username, and patreon.com/user?u=<id>, plus raw numeric campaign ids.

Legal & ethical use

This actor collects only publicly available information from Patreon creator pages and Patreon's public API. It does not bypass paywalls, access private patron data, or scrape the patron roster. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with Patreon's Terms of Service, applicable laws (including GDPR/CCPA where relevant), and for respecting creators' rights. Earnings figures are estimates, not official Patreon data, unless a creator has chosen to publish them.

Related actors

Pairs well with the rest of the creator‑economy toolkit: instagram-profile-scraper, tiktok-profile-scraper, youtube-channel-email-extractor, and x-tweet-scraper.