Kickstarter Scraper: projects with goal, pledged, backers, deadline and reward tiers

Kickstarter Scraper collects projects from kickstarter.com by keyword, category, location, status and funding range, or from links you copy from the site. Each project comes back as one clean row: name and blurb, status, category, goal and amount pledged (in the project currency and in USD), percent funded, backers, average pledge, launch date, deadline, campaign length, days left, country and city, image, video and the creator's public name. Turn on includeDetails to also get every reward tier (price, backers, limit, estimated delivery, shipping), the tags and the comments and updates counts. No account or cookies are needed.

It is used for crowdfunding market research (what gets funded in a niche and at what price), to find hardware and board game launches early, to track live campaigns day by day, to build lead lists of creators and brands, and to study pricing of reward tiers.

At a glance

What	Price
Project delivered	US$ 1.00 per 1,000 projects (US$ 0.001 each)
Run start	US$ 0.005 per run

• 1,000 projects = US$ 1.005, with or without the reward details.
• Error rows, duplicates and projects skipped by onlyNew are never charged. maxItems is a hard cap, and a spending limit set on the run stops it cleanly with everything delivered so far.
• About 300 projects in 20 seconds without details; with details each project page is opened too (about 2 per second).

Quick start

{
  "searchQueries": ["board game"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

The most funded technology projects from London, with reward tiers:

{
  "categories": ["technology"],
  "location": "London",
  "state": "successful",
  "sortBy": "most_funded",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Live campaigns already over 100% funded, ending soon:

{
  "searchQueries": ["3d printer", "camping gear"],
  "state": "live",
  "percentFunded": "over100",
  "sortBy": "end_date"
}

Links from the site work too:

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kokoon/sleep-headphones",
    "https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/games/tabletop%20games?sort=newest"
  ]
}

Input

Field	What it does
searchQueries	Words to search, one per line. Each keyword is one search.
categories	Main categories: Art, Comics, Crafts, Dance, Design, Fashion, Film & Video, Food, Games, Journalism, Music, Photography, Publishing, Technology, Theater. Each one is searched on its own.
categoryId	A numeric subcategory id (34 = Tabletop Games; every row shows its categoryId).
location	City, region or country in English. Only projects from that place.
state	All, live, successful, failed, canceled or upcoming (pre-launch).
sortBy	Popularity, Magic (Kickstarter mix), Newest, Ending soon, Most funded, Most backed.
percentFunded	Under 75%, 75% to 100%, over 100%.
goalRange, pledgedRange	USD ranges from under $1,000 to over $1,000,000.
staffPicksOnly	Only Projects We Love.
startUrls	Project links, or discover links (category, place or advanced search; filters in the link are kept).
includeDetails	Reward tiers, tags, comments and updates counts (opens each project page; same price).
maxItems	Cap for the whole run (default 50; 0 = no cap).
onlyNew	Remembers the projects delivered in earlier runs of the same search and returns only new ones.
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy by default.

searchQuery, keyword, query, maxResults, urls and projectUrls are accepted too, so inputs written for other Kickstarter tools keep working.

Output

One row per project (type: project):

Field	What it is
projectId, url	Kickstarter project id and link
name, blurb	Project name and short pitch
state	live, successful, failed, canceled, submitted (upcoming)
category, parentCategory, categoryId	Subcategory, main category and the subcategory id
goal, pledged, currency	Goal and amount pledged in the project currency
goalUsd, pledgedUsd	The same two values in USD
percentFunded, backersCount, averagePledgeUsd	Funding progress, backers and average pledge in USD
launchedAt, deadline, createdAt, stateChangedAt	Campaign dates (UTC)
campaignDays, daysLeft	Campaign length and days left (live projects only)
isStaffPick, isLatePledgeOpen	Projects We Love, and late pledges open after the campaign
country, countryName, location, locationType	Where the project is from
imageUrl, videoUrl	Main image and campaign video (MP4)
creatorName, creatorId	Creator's public name and account id
sourceQuery	Which keyword, category or link produced this row

With includeDetails: rewards (each tier with title, minimum, description, backersCount, estimatedDelivery, shipping, available, plus limit and remaining for limited tiers), rewardsCount, tags, commentsCount, updatesCount.

One real row (image and video links left out):

{
  "type": "project",
  "projectId": 1587268967,
  "name": "Philips x Kokoon Sleep Headphones",
  "blurb": "The ultimate sleep earbuds are here - start your journey to better sleep.",
  "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kokoon/sleep-headphones",
  "state": "successful",
  "category": "Wearables",
  "parentCategory": "Technology",
  "goal": 10000,
  "pledged": 548514,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "goalUsd": 12533.46,
  "pledgedUsd": 687478.06,
  "percentFunded": 5485.1,
  "backersCount": 3582,
  "averagePledgeUsd": 191.93,
  "launchedAt": "2023-06-14T13:00:45Z",
  "deadline": "2023-07-19T13:00:45Z",
  "campaignDays": 35.0,
  "isStaffPick": true,
  "country": "GB",
  "location": "London, UK",
  "creatorName": "Kokoon Technology"
}

Errors you may see

Every error is a row with errorCode and is never charged:

errorCode	Meaning
INVALID_INPUT	A field has a wrong value (for example an unknown category)
INVALID_URL	The link is not a Kickstarter project or discover link
LOCATION_NOT_FOUND	Kickstarter did not recognize the location
NO_RESULTS	No project for this keyword and filters
NOT_FOUND	A project link that does not exist or was removed
NOT_REACHED	The run timeout, the cost guard or maxItems arrived before this link
BLOCKED	Kickstarter refused every attempt; run it again in a few minutes

Integrations, scheduling and AI agents

• Schedule a search daily with onlyNew on in Apify schedules to get each new launch in your niche once, or run the same live campaigns every day to chart their funding curve.
• Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or read the dataset from the Apify API.
• Connect it to Make, n8n, Zapier, Slack or Google Sheets through Apify integrations.
• AI agents: call it as a tool through the Apify MCP server in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client, for example "list the 50 most funded tabletop games of the last year and the price of their cheapest reward tier".

FAQ

Do I need a Kickstarter account? No. The Actor reads the same public discover pages the site shows to visitors.

How many projects can I get? Kickstarter shows up to 2,400 projects per search (200 pages of 12). For more, split by category, subcategory, location, status or funding range: each combination is its own search.

Why are amounts in different currencies? goal and pledged are in the project's own currency, as on the site. goalUsd and pledgedUsd convert both to USD with Kickstarter's rate, so rows can be compared.

What does includeDetails add, and does it cost more? It opens each project page for the reward tiers, tags and the comments and updates counts. The price per project is the same; the run is slower.

Can I follow a live campaign over time? Yes. Put its project link in startUrls and schedule the run hourly or daily; each row has pledged, backersCount and scrapedAt.

Is it legal? The Actor reads public project pages only. Of the creator it returns only the public name shown on the project and the account id, with no email, avatar or profile data. You are responsible for how you use the data under the laws that apply to you.

Something broke or a field is missing? Open an issue on the Actor page with the input you used; issues are answered quickly.

Limitations

• Up to 2,400 projects per search, a limit of Kickstarter's own discover pages.
• The Magic order is a random mix; the Actor keeps the same mix across the pages of one run.
• Story text, FAQ and comments' content are not collected.

Changelog

• 16 Oct 2026: first version. Keyword, category, subcategory, location, status, funding and goal filters, six sort orders, project and discover links, optional reward tiers and tags, onlyNew, free error rows.