# Kick Channel Profile Scraper (`romy/kick-channel-profile-scraper`) Actor

Fetch a full Kick channel profile: info, follower/subscriber data, live status, social links, recent categories, gifter leaderboard, and custom emote set, for one or more channel slugs. No Kick account or API key needed — talks directly to Kick's app API. Split from romy/kick-all-in-one-api.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/romy/kick-channel-profile-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Romy](https://apify.com/romy) (community)
- **Categories:** Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.10 / 1,000 channel profile fetcheds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### What does Kick Channel Profile Scraper do?

**Kick Channel Profile Scraper** takes one or more [Kick](https://kick.com/) channel slugs and pushes a merged channel profile — core info (banner, follower count, live status, subscriber badge tiers), social links, recently-streamed categories, gifter leaderboard, and custom emote set — one dataset row per slug.

It talks directly to the same internal APIs the official Kick Android app uses (`kick.com`), reverse-engineered by capturing and analyzing live traffic from the real app. No Kick account, no API key. This is the channel-profile slice of [Kick All-in-One API](https://apify.com/romy/kick-all-in-one-api), split out as its own focused Actor.

### Why use Kick Channel Profile Scraper?

- **Three calls in one row** — channel info, gifter leaderboard, and emotes, fetched in parallel and merged into a single dataset item per slug
- **Returns the channel's numeric id** — needed to chain into other Kick spin-off Actors in this family (videos, clips, chat, playback), which take the numeric id rather than the slug
- **No account needed** — every read request works fully anonymously
- **Use cases:** creator monitoring dashboards, sponsorship/brand research, emote-set enrichment, gifter/leaderboard tracking

### Input

| Field   | Type     | Description                                                                                                  |
| ------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `slugs` | string\[] | **Required.** Kick channel slugs (the name in a channel's URL, e.g. `kaneljoseph` for kick.com/kaneljoseph). |

Example:

```json
{ "slugs": ["kaneljoseph", "trainwreckstv"] }
```

### Output

One dataset row per slug:

```json
{
    "slug": "kaneljoseph",
    "channel": {
        "id": 18750821,
        "slug": "kaneljoseph",
        "chatroomId": 18490228,
        "info": { "verified": true, "followers_count": 89833, "livestream": null },
        "links": [],
        "recentCategories": [{ "name": "IRL", "viewers": 202259 }]
    },
    "leaderboard": { "...": "top gifters" },
    "emotes": { "...": "channel emote set" }
}
```

### Known limitations

- A slug that fails (channel doesn't exist, renamed, banned) is logged and skipped — the run continues with the remaining slugs rather than aborting.
- VODs, clips, playback URLs, and chat are separate spin-off Actors in this family — this one focuses on the channel profile itself.

### Pricing

Pay-per-event, billed on the `channel` event: $0.004 per channel profile successfully fetched (FREE tier). See the Actor's Pricing tab for current rates.

# Actor input Schema

## `slugs` (type: `array`):

Kick channel slugs (the name in a channel's URL, e.g. "kaneljoseph" for kick.com/kaneljoseph).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "slugs": [
    "kaneljoseph"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "slugs": [
        "kaneljoseph"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("romy/kick-channel-profile-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "slugs": ["kaneljoseph"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("romy/kick-channel-profile-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "slugs": [
    "kaneljoseph"
  ]
}' |
apify call romy/kick-channel-profile-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,romy/kick-channel-profile-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Q6niOTxF295MFV8Dz/builds/G6Tk0bwoiLafV59SL/openapi.json