💎 Patreon Premium Creator & Posts Scraper

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Welcome to this Premium Patreon Creator Scraper on Apify!

This blazing-fast, feature-rich actor is designed to extract detailed creator and content data from Patreon like a pro — whether you're a creator, market researcher, content analyst, competitive intelligence professional, or media strategist. It effortlessly scrapes public Patreon creator profiles, providing extensive metadata including engagement stats, earnings estimates, membership tiers, all posts, and comprehensive creator insights from Graphtreon.

This scraper is built for large-scale data collection and precision — capable of scraping hundreds of creator profiles with thousands of data points in minutes

Key Features

• ✅ Comprehensive Creator Profile Scraping:

  • Scrapes creators by creator name or profile URL (bulk URLs supported)
  • Extracts key creator details: creator ID, name, creation date, category, rankings,description and SEO data
  • Captures profile images, background posters, and branding elements
  • Retrieves social media links (Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Twitch)

• ✅ Advanced Financial & Performance Analytics:

  • Membership statistics: total members, paid members, patron counts
  • Revenue insights: estimated monthly earnings (min/max ranges), earnings currency
  • Platform performance: category rankings, overall Patreon rankings
  • Growth metrics and engagement tracking

• ✅ Detailed Membership Tier Analysis:

  • Complete tier structure with pricing, features, and post availability
  • Tier-specific benefits and exclusive content access levels
  • Member distribution across different subscription levels

• ✅ Content & Engagement Intelligence:

  • Recent posts data: titles, types (video, podcast, text), publication dates
  • Engagement metrics: likes, comments, commenter counts for each post
  • Post thumbnails and preview URLs
  • Perfect for content categorization and posting frequency analysis

• ✅ Creator Insights & Audience Data:

  • NSFW content flags and content category classification
  • Free trial availability and monetization strategies
  • Creator descriptions and value propositions

• ✅ High-Speed Performance:

  • Scrapes hundreds of creator profiles in minutes with parallel processing
  • Smart rate limiting and request optimization for reliable data collection

• ✅ Flexible Output Formats:

  • Exports results in multiple formats: JSON, CSV, XLSX, JSONL
  • Clean, structured data ready for analytics, business intelligence, or competitive analysis
  • Comprehensive dataset perfect for market research and creator economy insights

Use Cases

• Marketing Teams & Agencies: Analyze creator monetization strategies, identify potential brand partnerships, and benchmark competitor creator programs across industries
• Business Intelligence & Strategy: Extract creator economy insights, revenue modeling data, and membership tier optimization strategies for subscription-based businesses
• Data Scientists & Analysts: Collect comprehensive Patreon datasets to model creator success factors, subscription trends, and content monetization patterns
• Content Creators & Coaches: Research successful creators in your niche, analyze pricing strategies, membership tiers, and content delivery methods
• Investment & Market Research: Study the creator economy landscape, evaluate platform growth trends, and assess creator business sustainability for investment decisions

Usage Limits

This service has different usage limits depending on your subscription status:

User Type	Daily Runs	Max Creators per Run	Reset Period
Free	5 runs	3 per run	24-hours
Paid	Unlimited	Unlimited	N/A

How Limits Work

• Free users: Limited to 5 runs with up to 3 creators per run in a 24-hour period from your first usage
• Paid users: No limits on the number of runs, unlimited creators per run

📍 Output

{
  "creator_id": "6742942",
  "created_at": "2021-05-04T03:24:18Z",
  "published_at": "2021-08-11T06:54:22Z",
  "profile_url": "https://www.patreon.com/theyard",
  "profile_image_url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/campaign/6742942/ac9df56840454ad49fccba1f44c2b1fa/eyJ3Ijo2MjB9/4.jpg?token-hash=ZUONJrai6f8X4CSC8I8i9wkvkgyrgb3px8Ouc1pu0VQ%3D",
  "creator_name": "the yard",
  "description": "The Yard is a show hosted by Ludwig, Nick, Slime, and Aiden. These four visionaries were sent back from the future to fill the gaping void of white podcasters in LA. So sit back, relax, and please for the love of god shut up you are being so loud right now.",
  "category": "Podcasts",
  "category_rank": 4, # From Graphtreon
  "patreon_rank": 7, # From Graphtreon
  "total_creations": 815,
  "total_posts": 815,
  "posts_mix": {
    "text": 44,
    "audio": 455,
    "video": 305,
    "poll": 0,
    "image": 11,
    "link": 0,
    "livestream": 0,
    "podcast": 461
  },
  "total_members": 66148, # From Graphtreon if not available on Patreon
  "paid_members": 42157, # From Graphtreon if not available on Patreon
  "monthly_earnings": 281799.23,
  "earnings_currency": "USD",
  "earnings_per_month": 281560.0,
  "earnings_per_patron": 6.68, # From Graphtreon
  "estimated_monthly_earnings_formatted": null, # From Graphtreon
  "min_estimate_monthly_earnings": null,  # From Graphtreon
  "max_estimate_monthly_earnings": null, # From Graphtreon
  "declined_patron_count": 6766,
  "offers_free_membership": true,
  "offers_paid_membership": true,
  "has_visible_shop": false,
  "shows_earnings": true,
  "shows_patron_count": true,
  "shows_free_trial": true,
  "is_nsfw": false,
  "tiers": [
    {
      "id": "10306633",
      "title": "Free",
      "price": null,
      "currency": "USD",
      "declined_patron_count": 63,
      "available_posts": 1,
      "features": []
    },
    {
      "id": "7158347",
      "title": "shill",
      "price": 5.0,
      "currency": "USD",
      "declined_patron_count": 5119,
      "available_posts": 9,
      "features": [
        "Bonus episodes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "7158348",
      "title": "rich king",
      "price": 15.0,
      "currency": "USD",
      "declined_patron_count": 1230,
      "available_posts": 332,
      "features": [
        "Secret Shows",
        "Early access to D&D",
        "Behind-the-scenes content",
        "Bonus episodes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "7158349",
      "title": "shillionaire",
      "price": 25.0,
      "currency": "USD",
      "declined_patron_count": 349,
      "available_posts": 345,
      "features": [
        "Exclusive Yard Goods + D&D items",
        "Discounts + Early Merch Access",
        "Secret Shows",
        "Early access to D&D",
        "Behind-the-scenes content",
        "Bonus episodes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "7557484",
      "title": "fuck you",
      "price": 69.69,
      "currency": "USD",
      "declined_patron_count": 5,
      "available_posts": 344,
      "features": [
        "Exclusive Yard Goods + D&D items",
        "Discounts + Early Merch Access",
        "Secret Shows",
        "Early access to D&D",
        "Behind-the-scenes content",
        "Bonus episodes"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "posts": [
    {
      "id": "138660834",
      "created_at": "2025-09-11T13:00:02Z",
      "published_at": "2025-09-11T18:00:10Z",
      "post_type": "video_external_file",
      "is_paid": true,
      "title": "Ep. 216 Premium - get ready to learn chinese, buddy [VIDEO]",
      "comments": 2,
      "commenter_count": 2,
      "likes": 10,
      "description": null,
      "duration": 3712.816667,
      "duration_formatted": "01:01:52",
      "post_url": "https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-216-premium-138660834",
      "pledge_url": "https://www.patreon.com/checkout/theyard",
      "thumbnail_url": "https://image.mux.com/k02eOtwZas8MGVTBzU00kfwB35dwbd5K6wWuinOQh5Ym4/thumbnail.jpg?token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6Ik5CY3o3Sk5RcUNmdDdWcmo5MWhra2lEY3Vyc2xtRGNmSU1oSFUzallZMDI0IiwidHlwIjoiSldUIn0.eyJzdWIiOiJrMDJlT3R3WmFzOE1HVlRCelUwMGtmd0IzNWR3YmQ1SzZ3V3Vpbk9RaDVZbTQiLCJleHAiOjE3NjAyMjcyMDAsImF1ZCI6InQiLCJ3aWR0aCI6MTA4MCwiZml0X21vZGUiOiJwcmVzZXJ2ZSIsInRpbWUiOjIuMH0.ONeEX1uDR9gaa7lQkJ7ufdK1OtB4yO3gvN2MnVvRcZyRqQoII60vALokfLVhJvSEKoxXgIoEGPY3DPkZ8fxbGaQcS7J27WTkfZSXwRPoufopV-PkE4w8DDmSt_qmFcYiO2apny5NDO3DVU3yIgaxVePj9U8upWXlpeKj835RbFaIbx5YH_6SSuCtOFCXTP5QJccu6Sdrm8HLubhF9xrKGQsSMzUR_FQfwsndjfut3ODZ27u7fpAfowbrS1xBfszuRl4B2nSLWmZKyIXxfidkgEdss9VDp8B8EQB9yvDL12LDuzBe14vFq0BC8nR125QSBt6-4idSpWSLhzpJUG4eEA",
      "thumbnail_square_url": "https://image.mux.com/k02eOtwZas8MGVTBzU00kfwB35dwbd5K6wWuinOQh5Ym4/thumbnail.jpg?token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6Ik5CY3o3Sk5RcUNmdDdWcmo5MWhra2lEY3Vyc2xtRGNmSU1oSFUzallZMDI0IiwidHlwIjoiSldUIn0.eyJzdWIiOiJrMDJlT3R3WmFzOE1HVlRCelUwMGtmd0IzNWR3YmQ1SzZ3V3Vpbk9RaDVZbTQiLCJleHAiOjE3NjAyMjcyMDAsImF1ZCI6InQiLCJ3aWR0aCI6MTA4MCwiaGVpZ2h0IjoxMDgwLCJmaXRfbW9kZSI6InNtYXJ0Y3JvcCIsInRpbWUiOjIuMH0.I6fuTliaWbe3lgku0d7MMWFqCskoMOt65nFKSO0H8E6Xtp0CM2Locv4TseRIV8h2G7T1FBxEVLGB5fGAo7Md5gjtN9kXSolyJQxbQQn26iEhs8rutMgIEGKR_D5UdXhMQjHzkQyUBF882jwSdGIqOyVa7pkegBFlzgbA4p0lMCydzAUBtDmoqWKH2Q4UVDZm3z2H3zVwR9lZRNczr7xk_VGT34pB41k2a-zQfuCMxLfNhaUzmU7l7SnyGGjATWplJw-5xYEq2R6OKhA4-PXuI6gVM1-feBbgOY7B927n7MxjAxhXeBu1iIpOQ1I7LWA0N27mSjnBs7-ChGp5-dHqaQ",
      "preview_url": "https://stream.mux.com/ma8zwvzDcUzV6v8rusHRPnoVYTEWJE101tPlQxyYGZIo.m3u8?token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6Ik5CY3o3Sk5RcUNmdDdWcmo5MWhra2lEY3Vyc2xtRGNmSU1oSFUzallZMDI0IiwidHlwIjoiSldUIn0.eyJzdWIiOiJtYTh6d3Z6RGNVelY2djhydXNIUlBub1ZZVEVXSkUxMDF0UGxReHlZR1pJbyIsImV4cCI6MTc1NzcwMzYwMCwiYXVkIjoidiJ9.XzKHeIbtWTAVzSbI_SSN_VffaTGuh8BN6gg_hGXl7xb7obW76nDiZgV65xPR3NmdvtQzTGWQoW-WP3GGf6RJV0Cy0-xhTDkpnzMDiyEPDDqWA9IFDh62P0i6CL1AD5tpIquRGB0D8iO2nyty-x7V4SCI34Nt_zmEugMpUjzjcIpnjwmzhOxa0YVmAkW-dyiOfSg5wFwNOUQLQdNDhVFnwIbFE09eMkSQCR0y-0rY9L73Ed5brK2DkyH5s3cOiaMlnP9HD5fcj9gpFuYI424wTH3LnbICvuXC24Eu8S4NdMtDdDkIBYo4rfKew2sJxs67rRu84eEhV7JXU3ZOYqQF_g",
      "preview_duration": 30.0,
    },
    ...
  ],
  "thumbnail_url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/campaign/6742942/ac9df56840454ad49fccba1f44c2b1fa/eyJoIjozNjAsInciOjM2MH0%3D/4.jpg?token-hash=ePXKm7vC-2BcF97MTIkOkkztnr-SI01oKqtSNb921_I%3D&token-time=1758844800",
  "background_poster_url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/campaign/6742942/73bbdcb083274e32b7e945777c5fb4bc/eyJ3IjoxOTIwLCJ3ZSI6MX0%3D/1.jpg?token-hash=f5BtKGTYRmQaNHkaBho6Wl17i5-txc5d99vf41nme78%3D&token-time=1759536000",
  "primary_theme_color": "#040404",
  "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2NU6pWN0vmQFg6GtUme4pC",
  "youtube": null,
  "instagram": null,
  "twitter": null,
  "facebook": null,
  "twitch": null,
  "tiktok": null
}

📌 Input

- creator: (Required) (String) Enter the Patreon creator's username to scrape their profile data. This will be used to search for the creator's page if no direct URLs are provided in the bulk URL section.

- include_posts: (Optional) (Boolean) (Default: true) Enable to include detailed posts data from the creator's Patreon page when available. This includes post titles, engagement metrics, content types, and publication dates.

- include_graphtreon: (Optional) (Boolean) (Default: true) Enable to enhance results with additional analytics data from Graphtreon.com when available. This provides supplementary insights and historical data on earnings and members for deeper creator analysis.

- max_posts: (Optional) (Integer) (Default: 20) Set the maximum number of recent posts to scrape per creator. Range: 1-10,000 posts. Set to higher values for comprehensive content analysis or lower values for faster processing.

- creator_urls: (Optional) (Array) (Default: empty) Enter Patreon creators by their handle or by creator page url to scrape in bulk. You can specify multiple items by clicking on the Add button or in bulk by clicking on the Bulk edit button. If provided, this will override the single creator parameter above.

- stream_output: (Optional) (Array) (Default: empty) If checked, the actor will stream the data while processing the query.. This is useful for real-time monitoring of the scraping process. If unchecked, the actor will only save the output to the dataset at the end of the scraping process.

Supported Creator Slug & URL Formats

Format	Supported
theyard	✅
https://www.patreon.com/theyard	✅
https://www.patreon.com/cw/theyard	✅

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✏️ JSON Input

Sample JSON input if you use the apify api via CURL, Python, JS etc.

{
  "creator": "theyard",
  "include_graphtreon": true,
  "include_posts": true,
  "max_posts": 20
}

📎 Detailed Output Information

Creator Profile Data

Includes comprehensive metadata for each Patreon creator, such as:

• creator_id - Unique Patreon creator identifier
• creator_name - Display name of the creator
• created_at - Account creation timestamp
• profile_url - Direct link to the creator's Patreon page
• profile_image_url - Creator's profile picture URL
• description - Creator's bio and value proposition text
• category - Content category (e.g., "Podcasts", "Art", "Gaming") (via Graphetreon)
• is_nsfw - Boolean flag indicating adult content

Performance & Analytics

Provides detailed performance metrics and rankings:

• total_members - Total number of patrons/subscribers
• paid_members - Number of paying subscribers
• category_rank - Ranking within their content category (via Graphetreon)
• patreon_rank - Overall platform ranking (via Graphetreon)
• monthly_earnings - Monthly earnings (via Patreon if visible)
• estimated_avg_monthly_earnings - Average estimated monthly revenue (via Graphtreon)
• min_estimate_monthly_earnings - Minimum estimated earnings range (via Graphtreon)
• max_estimate_monthly_earnings - Maximum estimated earnings range (via Graphtreon)
• earnings_currency - Currency for earnings (typically USD)

Membership Tier Structure

Comprehensive breakdown of subscription offerings:

• tiers - Array of all membership tiers with detailed information
• id - Unique tier identifier
• title - Tier name/title
• price - Monthly subscription cost
• currency - Pricing currency
• available_posts - Number of posts accessible at this tier
• features - Array of tier-specific benefits and perks

Content & Engagement Data

Recent posts and engagement metrics:

• total_posts - Total number of posts published
• posts - Array of recent posts with detailed metadata
• post_type - Content type (video_embed, podcast, text, etc.)
• title - Post title
• comments - Number of comments on the post
• commenter_count - Unique number of commenters
• likes - Post like count
• published_at - Post publication timestamp
• post_url - Direct link to the post

Social Media & Branding

Creator's external presence and visual branding:

• spotify - Spotify podcast URL
• youtube - YouTube channel URL
• instagram - Instagram profile URL
• twitter - Twitter/X profile URL
• tiktok - TikTok profile URL
• facebook - Facebook page URL
• twitch - Twitch channel URL
• thumbnail_url - Main profile thumbnail image
• background_poster_url - Background/banner image URL
• primary_theme_color - Brand color in hex format

Platform Features

Patreon-specific functionality indicators:

• shows_earnings - Whether earnings are publicly displayed
• shows_patron_count - Whether patron count is visible
• shows_free_trial - Whether free trials are offered
• seo_description - SEO meta description
• seo_keywords - SEO keywords for discoverability

Export Formats

• Data can be exported in CSV, XLSX, JSON, JSONL, XML, and RSS formats for seamless integration into your data pipeline or analytics workflow.

⚙️ While the scraper is running

During the run, the actor will output log messages letting you know what is going on at any point. Each message always contains specific information about the process including which url / page the actor is working on.

If you provide invalid inputs to the actor, it will immediately stop with a failure state and output log messages explaining what is wrong. If you are unsure what went wrong feel free to open up an issue in the issue tab.

🔗 Legality of web scraping and scraping of job listings

The Patreon Premium Creator & Posts Scraper is designed to ethically extract only publicly available data, and it does not scrape private user data such as personal email addresses or personal identifiers.

Our scrapers are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. We therefore believe that our scrapers, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe. However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers. You can also read our blog post on the legality of web scraping

💬 Feedback and Support

Your satisfaction is important to us! Therefore we are constantly striving to enhance the performance of our Actors.

If you have any technical feedback or encounter any bugs with the Patreon Premium Creator & Posts Scraper, please create an issue in the Actor’s Issues tab on the Apify Console.

You can also contact us directly for custom integrations or project use cases at business@radeance.com.