Kickstarter Scraper — Creator Leads, Contacts & Launch Monitor

Most Kickstarter scrapers hand you project stats. This one hands you leads.

For every campaign it also profiles the creator — their own website/store and social profiles — so you get a real B2B contact you can sell to, enrich, or add to a CRM. Search the whole catalog by state, category, and date window, or run it on a schedule to catch new launches the day they go live.

Built for founders, agencies, suppliers, and GTM teams who sell to the people running crowdfunding campaigns — fulfilment, manufacturing, marketing, pre-order/where's-my-order tooling, packaging, financing.

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Why this one

	Typical KS scraper	This actor
Campaign stats (funding, backers, category, dates)	✅	✅
Creator's own website / store	❌	✅
Creator social profiles (IG, FB, X, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn…)	❌	✅
New-launch monitor (schedule it, get only new)	rare	✅
Full-catalog search (beats the 200-page cap)	❌	✅

The website column is the point: pipe it into an email finder (see Turn it into email below) and you've got a complete outbound list — campaign, creator, site, socials, email.

What you get (one row per campaign)

• Campaign — name, blurb, url, state (live / upcoming / successful / failed / canceled), category + parent, staff-pick, tags, rewards count, min pledge
• Funding — goal, pledged, USD pledged, % funded, backers, currency, launched / deadline / created dates
• Creator lead — name, profile url, bio, # of launched projects, last login, location (city / state / country)
• Contact — website + websites_all[], website_source (see below), and socials { instagram, facebook, twitter_x, tiktok, youtube, linkedin, pinterest, discord, threads, bluesky }

Honest coverage (read this)

The creator's own website is published on their Kickstarter profile for live and upcoming campaigns, and that's where we read it — cleanly and reliably. For ended campaigns (successful/failed), Kickstarter no longer exposes that field, so we fall back to a best-effort website pulled from links in the campaign story. Every row tells you which you got:

• website_source: "profile" — the creator's own website, straight from their profile (highest confidence)
• website_source: "story" — best-effort site recovered from the campaign story
• website_source: "none" — no website found (metadata-only lead)

So: live / upcoming campaigns are the richest lead source. Filter on website_source if you only want confirmed sites.

Modes

• Search (default) — one filter: state + optional category + optional date window. Great for "all live tabletop games" or "everything that ended last month."
• Sweep — tile the whole catalog by month automatically, working around Kickstarter's ~200-page-per-query limit. For building a full historical list.
• Monitor — return only campaigns that are new since the last run. Point a daily schedule at it and get a fresh-launch feed. Optional webhook (Slack/Zapier).
• URLs — paste specific project URLs to scrape + enrich.

Turn leads into email

This actor gives you the creator's website; pair it with an email finder to complete the contact. Recipe:

1. Run this actor, export the dataset.
2. Feed the website column into Local Business Contact Enricher (our $0.01/contact email finder).
3. You now have campaign → creator → website → email.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price	When
campaign-scraped	$0.0008	per campaign row returned
creator-enriched	$0.004	per unique creator only when a website or social is found — misses are free
new-campaign-detected	$0.02	per new campaign in monitor mode (replaces campaign-scraped)
monitor-run-completed	$0.05	per scheduled monitor run
alert-delivered	$0.005	only when a webhook alert is delivered

Example — pull 10,000 live campaigns with enrichment, ~7,000 unique creators with a contact found: 10,000 × $0.0008 + 7,000 × $0.004 ≈ $36. Turn enrichment off for a metadata-only pull and it's just $0.0008/row.

Example input

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchState": "live",
  "category": "Tabletop Games",
  "maxItems": 200,
  "enrichCreators": true
}

Daily new-launch monitor:

{
  "mode": "monitor",
  "category": "Technology",
  "enrichCreators": true,
  "webhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/…"
}

FAQ

Is this only public data? Yes — everything comes from public Kickstarter campaign and profile pages. No login, no private data. You are responsible for compliant outreach (CAN-SPAM / GDPR / CCPA).

Do I need proxies? Residential proxy is the default and recommended — Kickstarter rate-limits datacenter IPs. The actor paces itself (one request per session, rotating).

Will it get the whole catalog? Sweep mode tiles by month to cover far more than a single query's ~200-page cap. Very large historical sweeps take time — give the run a high timeout.

What about the creator's legal name? Off by default. Kickstarter sometimes exposes a verified legal name (distinct from display name); enable includeVerifiedName only if you have a lawful basis — it's personal data.

Socials came back empty for some campaigns. Not every creator links socials on-site. Website coverage is strongest on live/upcoming campaigns (see Honest coverage).

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Public campaign data. Not affiliated with Kickstarter, PBC.