# Kick Viewer Counts Scraper (`romy/kick-viewer-counts-scraper`) Actor

Get real-time viewer counts for one or more Kick.com livestreams in a single batched call. Talks directly to Kick's own internal current-viewers API - no account or API key needed. Split out from romy/kick-all-in-one-api as a focused Actor for viewer-count dashboards and stream-popularity tracking.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/romy/kick-viewer-counts-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 $1.60 / 1,000 viewer count 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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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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 Viewer Counts Scraper do?

**Kick Viewer Counts Scraper** takes one or more Kick livestream ids and pushes back their real-time viewer counts in a single batched call, one dataset row per livestream.

It talks directly to the same internal API the official [Kick](https://kick.com/) Android app uses (`kick.com/current-viewers`), reverse-engineered by capturing and analyzing live traffic from the real app. No Kick account, no API key, no scraping setup. This is the viewer-counts 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 Viewer Counts Scraper?

- **One call, many channels** — batch as many livestream ids as you want into a single request instead of hitting the channel page once per id
- **Real-time numbers** — the same counts the app itself shows, not a cached or delayed figure
- **No account needed** — the endpoint works fully anonymously
- **Use cases:** viewer-count dashboards, stream-popularity tracking over time, alerting on viewer spikes/drops, feeding a leaderboard alongside other Kick data

### Input

| Field           | Type     | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| --------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `livestreamIds` | string\[] | **Required.** Numeric livestream ids, e.g. the `id` field from [kick-discovery-scraper](https://apify.com/romy/kick-discovery-scraper)'s `home` mode. See Data notes below — not every id format Kick returns works here. |

Example:

```json
{
    "livestreamIds": ["124912670", "56488514"]
}
```

### Output

One dataset row per livestream id, in the exact shape Kick's own API returns:

```json
{ "livestream_id": 124912670, "viewers": 6495, "show_view_count": true }
```

### Data notes

- **This endpoint strictly validates ids as integers, confirmed live.** A UUID-style livestream id — the format returned by `GET /api/v1/livestreams` (e.g. `01a05572-6ef0-7270-8f8c-042989822a75`) — is rejected with a 422 `"This field must be an integer"` error. The plain integer ids returned by `GET /home` (`kick-discovery-scraper`'s `home` mode) work correctly; a channel's numeric `id` (from `kick-channel-profile-scraper`) was also confirmed live to return a valid result.
- The raw response is a plain JSON array, not wrapped in an object — this Actor pushes it exactly as-is.

### Known limitations

- Only wraps this one guest-accessible, read-only endpoint — no login flow is implemented or planned, by design (same as every actor in this family).
- This is an unofficial, reverse-engineered integration, not affiliated with or endorsed by Kick Streaming, Inc. Behavior may change if Kick changes its API.

### Pricing

Pay-per-event, `viewer-count` — charged once per livestream id's viewer-count row pushed. FREE tier: $0.002 per event. See the Actor's Pricing tab for current rates across all plans.

# Actor input Schema

## `livestreamIds` (type: `array`):

Numeric livestream ids, e.g. from kick-discovery-scraper's home/livestreams modes (the `id` field on each livestream). Note: the newer /api/v1/livestreams endpoint returns UUID-style ids that this endpoint rejects — use the integer ids from GET /home or GET /stream/featured-livestreams instead.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "livestreamIds": [
    "124912670"
  ]
}
```

# 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 = {
    "livestreamIds": [
        "124912670"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("romy/kick-viewer-counts-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 = { "livestreamIds": ["124912670"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("romy/kick-viewer-counts-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 '{
  "livestreamIds": [
    "124912670"
  ]
}' |
apify call romy/kick-viewer-counts-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,romy/kick-viewer-counts-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/g6VONOXRwuMPIiIfm/builds/woNG4S196ubJhP8us/openapi.json