Patreon Scraper — Creators, Membership Tiers & Creator Leads

Extract complete Patreon creator data — patron counts, every membership tier with real pricing, funding goals, post output, account age, an estimated minimum monthly revenue, and the full set of cross-platform social links (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, X, Discord, Spotify…). Optionally turn every creator into a ready-to-contact lead by pulling emails from their page and crawling their own website for contact details.

No login, no cookies, no API key, no browser — fast JSON extraction straight from Patreon's own public endpoints.

Why this Patreon scraper?

Most Patreon scrapers stop at the name and patron count. This actor pulls from Patreon's internal JSON API and ships the richest dataset in the category:

Data	Typical scrapers	This actor
Creator name, patron count, post count	✅	✅
Every membership tier (title, price, perks, limits)	❌	✅
Funding goals + completion %	❌	✅
Estimated minimum monthly revenue	❌	✅
Account age (creating since, years active)	❌	✅
Cross-platform socials (IG, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, X, Discord…)	❌	✅
Creator website + emails (lead wedge)	❌	✅ opt-in
Lead score (0–100) per creator	❌	✅
Recent posts (title, date, type, paid/free, engagement)	❌	✅ opt-in
Monitoring mode — only new creators / posts	❌	✅

Use cases

• Creator & influencer discovery — find creators by niche (podcast, fitness, digital art, game dev, TTRPG, newsletter) ranked by audience (patronCount) and monetization (estimatedMinMonthlyUsd).
• Sponsorship & brand-deal prospecting — surface creators with reachable contacts (descriptionEmails, website, socialLinks) and a leadScore, then reach out directly.
• Creator-economy market research — benchmark tier pricing, patron counts, goals and posting cadence across a niche or competitor set.
• Agency & tooling sales — Patreon creators are active buyers of editing, design, merch, memberships, analytics and marketing services — score and contact them.
• Competitor & roster monitoring — schedule recurring runs to watch a niche for new creators, or specific creators for new posts.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify — the free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open the Patreon Scraper, pick a mode, enter search terms (or paste creator URLs), and click Start.
3. Watch results stream into the dataset table.
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS — or pull results programmatically via the Apify API.

Input

{
    "mode": "searchCreators",
    "searchTerms": ["podcast", "digital art"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 60,
    "includePosts": false,
    "enrichCreatorContacts": true,
    "minPatrons": 100,
    "withContactsOnly": false,
    "monitorMode": false,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

• mode — searchCreators (find creators by keyword), creatorDetails (full details for specific creators), or creatorPosts (a creator's posts).
• searchTerms — keywords/niches/creator names, one per row (mode: searchCreators).
• creatorUrls — creator page URLs (https://www.patreon.com/MSsecretpod or /c/<handle>), bare handles (MSsecretpod), or numeric campaign ids (1055672) — for creatorDetails / creatorPosts.
• maxResultsPerQuery (default 60) — cap creators per search term (auto-paginated).
• includePosts (default false) — also output recent post records per creator. maxPostsPerCreator controls how many.
• enrichCreatorContacts (default false) — crawl each creator's own website (home + contact/about, max 3 pages) for emails, phone and extra socials.
• minPatrons / withContactsOnly / includeNsfw — filters to tighten the result set.
• monitorMode (default false) — emit only records not seen in previous runs. monitorStoreName keeps separate histories per target.

Output

One record per creator (type: "creator"), plus optional post records (type: "post"):

{
    "type": "creator",
    "campaignId": "1055672",
    "creatorName": "Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast",
    "creationName": "Hot Casts",
    "vanity": "MSsecretpod",
    "url": "https://www.patreon.com/MSsecretpod",
    "summary": "The home of the MSSP — twice-weekly bonus episodes…",
    "patronCount": 250433,
    "postCount": 976,
    "payPerName": "month",
    "isMonthly": true,
    "currency": "USD",
    "earningsVisibility": "private",
    "tierCount": 5,
    "paidTierCount": 4,
    "lowestPaidTierUsd": 1,
    "highestTierUsd": 50,
    "estimatedMinMonthlyUsd": 250433,
    "tiers": [
        { "title": "Grandfathered Poors", "amountUsd": 1, "currency": "USD", "description": "Got in early…", "published": true },
        { "title": "The Professional Class", "amountUsd": 5, "currency": "USD", "description": "The true backbone…", "published": true }
    ],
    "goals": [],
    "publishedAt": "2019-09-21T17:12:46.000+00:00",
    "yearsActive": 6.74,
    "avatarUrl": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/…/1.png",
    "creatorFullName": "Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast",
    "website": "https://mssecretpod.com",
    "socialLinks": { "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/…", "youtube": "https://youtube.com/…" },
    "socialCount": 2,
    "descriptionEmails": ["booking@mssecretpod.com"],
    "contactEmails": [],
    "leadScore": 78,
    "searchQuery": "podcast",
    "source": "searchCreators",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-16T12:00:00.000Z"
}

estimatedMinMonthlyUsd is a conservative floor (paying patrons × the cheapest paid monthly tier), computed only for monthly USD campaigns. Patreon hides exact earnings for most creators — this is a transparent estimate, not an official figure.

Automate & schedule

Run this actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API — start runs, fetch datasets, and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python — official SDKs.
• Schedules — run it hourly/daily/weekly to monitor a niche for new creators or specific creators for new posts; perfect for newsletters and lead pipelines.
• Webhooks — trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/patreon-scraper').call({
    mode: 'searchCreators',
    searchTerms: ['fitness', 'meal prep'],
    maxResultsPerQuery: 100,
    enrichCreatorContacts: true,
    minPatrons: 50,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} Patreon creators & leads`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to 5,000+ apps — no code required:

• Make — multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier — push new creator leads straight into your CRM.
• Slack — get notified when a monitored niche finds new creators.
• Google Drive / Sheets — auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte — pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub — trigger runs from commits or releases.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. You can call this actor from Claude, ChatGPT, or any agent framework through the Apify MCP server — ask your assistant to "find the top fitness creators on Patreon and list their tiers and contacts" and let it run this scraper for you.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready — AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server — no account, no API key.
• Skyfire — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

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Tips

• Niche depth: Patreon search returns thousands of creators per broad term. Raise maxResultsPerQuery for a full niche sweep, or use specific terms (true crime podcast, procreate brushes) to stay targeted.
• Recurring monitoring: combine Schedules with monitorMode to capture only newly listed creators or newly published posts.
• Proxies: keep the default residential proxy group — Patreon is fronted by Cloudflare and challenges datacenter IPs.
• Cost control: creator detail is one request each; turn off includePosts and enrichCreatorContacts for the cheapest runs, and use minPatrons / withContactsOnly to skip records you don't need.

FAQ

How do I scrape Patreon creators for a specific niche? Use searchCreators mode and put the niche in searchTerms (e.g. podcast, digital art, game dev). Combine with minPatrons to keep only creators above an audience threshold.

Does it need a Patreon login or API key? No. The actor reads the same public endpoints Patreon's own creator pages use — no login, OAuth or key.

Can I get a creator's exact earnings? Patreon hides exact earnings for most creators. The actor returns the real patronCount and full tier pricing, plus a clearly labeled estimatedMinMonthlyUsd floor for monthly USD campaigns. When a creator makes earnings public, earningsVisibility reflects that.

Where do the emails come from? From the creator's own public summary/about text, and — with enrichCreatorContacts on — from their own linked website (the same pages a human visitor would see). Patreon itself does not publish private emails.

Can I export to Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel? Yes — one click in the dataset view, or automatically on every run via the Google Drive integration.

How do I monitor new creators or posts automatically? Turn on monitorMode and create a Schedule; each run emits only what's new since the last one. Add a webhook or Zapier zap to push new leads into your CRM.

Is scraping Patreon legal? This actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws (GDPR/CCPA for personal data) and Patreon's terms.

A field is null — why? Some creators don't publish a website, socials, goals or a summary. Fields are null only when the data doesn't exist, not because the scraper skipped them.

Need help?

Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome — this actor is actively maintained.