Search Kickstarter projects based on your selected criteria and get structured data on matching projects. Download your data as HTML table, JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, and RSS feed. Forked from misceres/kickstarter-search.
Added the Social Practice, Toys, STL, TTRPG, and Audiobooks Kickstarter categories.
[0.0.29] - 2026-09-15
Added
Added excludeTerms to exclude projects containing specified whole words or phrases in their title or description.
Added exclusion matching tests, including protection against substring matches such as STL in Castle.
Fixed
Corrected the README input example so it is valid JSON.
[0.0.28] - 2026-09-15
Fixed
Accepted category IDs supplied as numbers as well as strings.
Corrected the documented status, percent-raised, and sort options.
Added
Added validation tests for category slugs and numeric category IDs.
[0.0.27] - 2026-09-15
Changed
Reduced the maximum request retries from 1000 to 20 based on observed residential proxy success rates.
Added retry count, proxy reuse, and request duration fields to pagination logs.
Removed decorative result-limit log lines.
[0.0.26] - 2026-09-15
Changed
Documented the expected Kickstarter JSON response and actor output shape.
Preserved the existing raw fields and compatibility aliases in project output.
Fixed
Made derived project fields resilient to missing nested data and timestamps.
Added
Added fixture-based tests for normal and incomplete Kickstarter projects.
[0.0.25] - 2026-09-15
Fixed
Restored cheerio as a runtime dependency because the aggregate crawlee entry point loads modules that require it during startup.
[0.0.24] - 2026-09-15
Changed
Renamed the discovery warm-up helper to describe its session-cookie role.
Removed obsolete seed extraction, fallback generation, and related logging.
[0.0.23] - 2026-07-02
Changed
Switched Kickstarter discovery pagination to the current discover/advanced.json endpoint.
Updated discover query serialization to match Kickstarter's current frontend, including bracket-array parameters such as state[] and category_id[].
Defaulted status searches to Kickstarter's current discover states: upcoming, live, and late_pledge.
Reused the last successful pagination proxy for the next page to reduce retry churn while still rotating proxies after failures.
Fixed
Removed the dependency on the removed .js-project-group[data-seed] markup for pagination startup.
Made missing seed extraction non-fatal now that the current JSON endpoint does not require a seed parameter.
Fixed category input matching when the category is provided as a numeric ID.
Preserved cookies from the initial discovery request for pagination requests.
Updated pagination URL construction to increment page on the current JSON URL.
[0.2.1] - 2026-06-08
Changed
Updated the Apify Actor base image from Node.js 20 to Node.js 24 LTS.
Updated runtime dependencies:
apify: ^3.5.0 -> ^3.7.2
crawlee: ^3.15.1 -> ^3.17.0
got-scraping: ^4.1.2 -> ^4.2.1
cheerio: ^1.1.2 -> ^1.2.0
Replaced deprecated Docker npm install flags with --omit=dev --omit=optional to avoid npm 10 build warnings.
Await proxy URL generation during proxy validation for compatibility with current Apify/Crawlee proxy APIs.
Fixed
Resolved production npm audit vulnerabilities in transitive dependencies:
axios: 1.12.2 -> 1.17.0
follow-redirects: 1.15.11 -> 1.16.0
brace-expansion: 2.0.2 -> 2.1.1
minimatch: 9.0.5 -> 9.0.9
ws: 8.18.3 -> 8.21.0
Removed the default woe_id=0 query parameter from Kickstarter discovery URLs. Location searches still add woe_id when a location is provided.
Retire blocked sessions when Kickstarter returns a 403 while fetching the initial search seed, allowing retries to rotate to a new proxy/session.
Improved pagination response handling when Kickstarter returns an unexpected non-projects response, logging useful diagnostics and retrying with a new proxy/session instead of failing with a projects.slice error.
[0.2.0] - 2025-10-03
Changed
BREAKING: Upgraded to Apify SDK v3 (from v2.0.6)
Migrated from Apify to Actor namespace
Updated all API calls: Apify.main() → Actor.main(), Apify.getInput() → Actor.getInput(), etc.
