Patreon Collection Posts Scraper

Collect posts from a selected Patreon collection and export one post per dataset row. Patreon Collection Posts Scraper preserves collection context and returns titles, dates, available text or teasers, public counters and media references.

Start from a course, season or themed series and collect its public-facing post records in the collection’s order. The output shares a consistent post schema with the creator feed and individual post actors.

At a glance	Details
📥 Input	Enter Patreon /collection/ID URLs or numeric collection IDs. Posts follow the collection order.
📤 Output	One post per success row with the input source retained
📄 Pagination	Result pages per input; page sizes and availability are controlled by Patreon
🔐 Login required	No
⚡ Processing	Up to 5 HTTP requests concurrently; up to 5 attempts for temporary failures
💾 Delivery	One Apify dataset view with individual records and complete nested JSON

What the Patreon collection posts scraper collects 🗂️

The Actor resolves the collection and its creator, then follows the website’s collection-post pagination. Repeated post IDs within the source collection are removed while source context stays attached.

Data can include:

• Post IDs, canonical URLs, titles and publication dates
• Source collection identity and ordering context
• Accessible post content or public teasers with access indicators
• Visible engagement and author information when supplied
• Available media, embeds, tags and poll metadata inside each post record

How to collect collection posts from Patreon 🚀

1. Enter one or more supported inputs.
2. Set the page budget and any collection option you need.
3. Start the Actor.
4. Open the Posts dataset view and review success or failed rows.
5. Export the dataset or retrieve records from your application.

{
  "inputList": [
    "https://www.patreon.com/collection/1986892"
  ],
  "pagesPerCollection": 1
}

The page budget counts post result pages separately for each collection. Collection metadata and creator-resolution requests do not themselves produce extra post rows.

Patreon collection posts output fields 📦

Field	Type	Meaning
input	string	Original submitted input.
status	string	success for a collected entity; failed for an invalid, unavailable or exhausted input.
id	string or null	Id when supplied by Patreon.
type	string or null	Type when supplied by Patreon.
url	string or null	Url when supplied by Patreon.
title	string or null	Title when supplied by Patreon.
post_type	string or null	Post type when supplied by Patreon.
created_at	string or null	Created at when supplied by Patreon.
published_at	string or null	Published at when supplied by Patreon.
edited_at	string or null	Edited at when supplied by Patreon.
is_accessible	boolean or null	Whether the anonymous website response permits viewing the post content.
is_locked	boolean or null	True when the anonymous website response does not permit viewing the full post.
is_paid	boolean or null	Raw Patreon is_paid flag. This does not determine whether a post is accessible.
is_preview_blurred	boolean or null	Is preview blurred when supplied by Patreon.
content_json	string or null	Original public post document as a JSON string; null when unavailable.
content_text	string or null	Readable public post text; null for unavailable full content.
teaser_text	string or null	Publicly visible post teaser, when supplied.
comment_count	integer or null	Comment count when supplied by Patreon.
commenter_count	integer or null	Commenter count when supplied by Patreon.
like_count	integer or null	Like count when supplied by Patreon.
reshare_count	integer or null	Reshare count when supplied by Patreon.
view_count	integer or null	View count when supplied by Patreon.
min_amount_cents	integer or null	Min amount cents when supplied by Patreon.
image_url	string or null	Image url when supplied by Patreon.
thumbnail_url	string or null	Thumbnail url when supplied by Patreon.
image_width	integer or null	Image width when supplied by Patreon.
image_height	integer or null	Image height when supplied by Patreon.
thumbnail_versions	array or null	Thumbnail versions when supplied by Patreon.
file_url	string or null	File url when supplied by Patreon.
duration_seconds	number or null	Duration seconds when supplied by Patreon.
embed	object or null	Embed when supplied by Patreon.
audio	object or null	Audio when supplied by Patreon.
video	object or null	Video when supplied by Patreon.
audio_preview	object or null	Audio preview when supplied by Patreon.
images	array or null	Images when supplied by Patreon.
attachments	array or null	Attachments when supplied by Patreon.
media	array or null	Media when supplied by Patreon.
poll	object or null	Poll when supplied by Patreon.
creator	object or null	Creator when supplied by Patreon.
author	object or null	Author when supplied by Patreon.
authors	array or null	Authors when supplied by Patreon.
tags	array or null	Tags when supplied by Patreon.
access_rules	array or null	Access rules when supplied by Patreon.
collection_id	string or null	Source or linked collection ID, when applicable.
collection_title	string or null	Collection title when supplied by Patreon.
collection_url	string or null	Collection url when supplied by Patreon.
page	integer or null	One-based main result page. Null for an individual detail lookup.

Nested field structure:

• thumbnail_versions[]: name, url.
• embed: url, provider, title, description, html.
• audio: id, media_type, file_name, mime_type, size_bytes, state, url, download_url, width, height, duration_seconds, thumbnail_url, image_versions.
• audio.image_versions[]: name, url.
• video: id, media_type, file_name, mime_type, size_bytes, state, url, download_url, width, height, duration_seconds, thumbnail_url, image_versions.
• video.image_versions[]: name, url.
• audio_preview: id, media_type, file_name, mime_type, size_bytes, state, url, download_url, width, height, duration_seconds, thumbnail_url, image_versions.
• audio_preview.image_versions[]: name, url.
• images[]: id, media_type, file_name, mime_type, size_bytes, state, url, download_url, width, height, duration_seconds, thumbnail_url, image_versions.
• images[].image_versions[]: name, url.
• attachments[]: id, media_type, file_name, mime_type, size_bytes, state, url, download_url, width, height, duration_seconds, thumbnail_url, image_versions.
• attachments[].image_versions[]: name, url.
• media[]: id, media_type, file_name, mime_type, size_bytes, state, url, download_url, width, height, duration_seconds, thumbnail_url, image_versions.
• media[].image_versions[]: name, url.
• poll: id, question, question_type, created_at, closes_at, response_count, choices.
• poll.choices[]: id, text, type, position, response_count.
• creator: id, name, url, avatar_url, currency.
• author: id, name, url, image_url.
• authors[]: id, name, url, image_url.
• tags[]: id, value, type.
• access_rules[]: id, type, amount_cents, currency, tier_id.

The examples below use normalized public response data. Values are snapshots and may change; every top-level output field is included. Different media variants and nested objects remain inside the same row.

Complete representative success result:

{
  "input": "https://www.patreon.com/collection/1986892",
  "status": "success",
  "id": "163323681",
  "type": "post",
  "url": "https://www.patreon.com/alexhefner/posts/attack-on-titan-163323681",
  "title": "Attack on Titan | OVA Episode 8 | \"Lost in the Cruel World\" | (UNEDITED)",
  "post_type": "video_external_file",
  "created_at": "2026-07-09T09:29:01.000+00:00",
  "published_at": "2026-07-09T21:34:31.000+00:00",
  "edited_at": "2026-07-09T21:34:31.000+00:00",
  "is_accessible": false,
  "is_locked": true,
  "is_paid": false,
  "is_preview_blurred": false,
  "content_json": null,
  "content_text": null,
  "teaser_text": "",
  "comment_count": 25,
  "commenter_count": 17,
  "like_count": 62,
  "reshare_count": 0,
  "view_count": null,
  "min_amount_cents": null,
  "image_url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJ3Ijo2MjB9/1.jpg?token-hash=9TU39yk8TRc9oUMD3vT4ZAAzWzmRb7z8D2xvmd_tivo%3D&token-time=1790380800",
  "thumbnail_url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJ3Ijo2MjB9/1.jpg?token-hash=9TU39yk8TRc9oUMD3vT4ZAAzWzmRb7z8D2xvmd_tivo%3D&token-time=1790380800",
  "image_width": 1920,
  "image_height": 1080,
  "thumbnail_versions": [
    {
      "name": "original",
      "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJwIjoxfQ%3D%3D/1.jpg?token-hash=hq9um_ejv8OBWpuyfEurn25fBUMsKYGV0d95_nIo-0Q%3D&token-time=1790380800"
    },
    {
      "name": "default",
      "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJ3Ijo2MjB9/1.jpg?token-hash=9TU39yk8TRc9oUMD3vT4ZAAzWzmRb7z8D2xvmd_tivo%3D&token-time=1790380800"
    },
    {
      "name": "default_blurred",
      "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJ3Ijo2MjB9/1.jpg?token-hash=9TU39yk8TRc9oUMD3vT4ZAAzWzmRb7z8D2xvmd_tivo%3D&token-time=1790380800"
    },
    {
      "name": "default_small",
      "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJ3IjozNjB9/1.jpg?token-hash=FqsnOyNeRMDPpYWZLXBFHtoakSKz8NTxkDxIyowyfzg%3D&token-time=1790380800"
    },
    {
      "name": "default_large",
      "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJ3IjoxMDgwfQ%3D%3D/1.jpg?token-hash=VY2LfGPU402BD9Foh2RnY5udfl63hj1O_z497F6LZwM%3D&token-time=1790380800"
    },
    {
      "name": "default_blurred_small",
      "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJ3IjozNjB9/1.jpg?token-hash=FqsnOyNeRMDPpYWZLXBFHtoakSKz8NTxkDxIyowyfzg%3D&token-time=1790380800"
    },
    {
      "name": "thumbnail",
      "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJoIjozNjAsInciOjM2MH0%3D/1.jpg?token-hash=KSs2PZnV7jMPeWZPYNYv8xqTzGBh1M-B1Kod0FORckI%3D&token-time=1790380800"
    },
    {
      "name": "thumbnail_large",
      "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJoIjoxMDgwLCJ3IjoxMDgwfQ%3D%3D/1.jpg?token-hash=X4NCA6frnZOwby1i-cQ8XOFU2QEwgZPpupe2D4Qvn3s%3D&token-time=1790380800"
    },
    {
      "name": "thumbnail_small",
      "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJoIjoxMDAsInciOjEwMH0%3D/1.jpg?token-hash=Uo-mGxtku6pZp8a5lUWg9IMnEtJ8Ek7KElsBGt2Sl6g%3D&token-time=1790380800"
    },
    {
      "name": "url",
      "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJ3Ijo2MjB9/1.jpg?token-hash=9TU39yk8TRc9oUMD3vT4ZAAzWzmRb7z8D2xvmd_tivo%3D&token-time=1790380800"
    }
  ],
  "file_url": null,
  "duration_seconds": null,
  "embed": null,
  "audio": null,
  "video": null,
  "audio_preview": null,
  "images": [
    {
      "id": "695988853",
      "media_type": null,
      "file_name": "lastttt.jpg",
      "mime_type": null,
      "size_bytes": null,
      "state": "ready",
      "url": null,
      "download_url": null,
      "width": 1920,
      "height": 1080,
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "thumbnail_url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJ3Ijo2MjB9/1.jpg?token-hash=9TU39yk8TRc9oUMD3vT4ZAAzWzmRb7z8D2xvmd_tivo%3D&token-time=1790380800",
      "image_versions": [
        {
          "name": "url",
          "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/e30%3D/1.jpg?token-hash=B7tdqmVLHXTXNDJ4lLkkC5K0Cr94LY-ud1Mxd1Z9SU4%3D&token-time=1790380800"
        },
        {
          "name": "thumbnail",
          "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/e30%3D/1.jpg?token-hash=B7tdqmVLHXTXNDJ4lLkkC5K0Cr94LY-ud1Mxd1Z9SU4%3D&token-time=1790380800"
        },
        {
          "name": "default",
          "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJ3Ijo2MjB9/1.jpg?token-hash=9TU39yk8TRc9oUMD3vT4ZAAzWzmRb7z8D2xvmd_tivo%3D&token-time=1790380800"
        },
        {
          "name": "default_small",
          "url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/163323681/b31ff0f422114a64b195d5251e63c2a8/eyJ3IjozNjB9/1.jpg?token-hash=FqsnOyNeRMDPpYWZLXBFHtoakSKz8NTxkDxIyowyfzg%3D&token-time=1790380800"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "attachments": null,
  "media": null,
  "poll": null,
  "creator": {
    "id": "2693197",
    "name": "Alex Hefner",
    "url": "https://www.patreon.com/alexhefner",
    "avatar_url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/campaign/2693197/04054629f14b4352a71c1bd30dcd757e/eyJ3Ijo2MjB9/7.jpg?token-hash=oWVv11rlwo_Vvvd2DFzyDdj9id9UwPOHKINv8nNNJ8Y%3D",
    "currency": "USD"
  },
  "author": {
    "id": "19128420",
    "name": "Alex Hefner",
    "url": "https://www.patreon.com/alexhefner",
    "image_url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/campaign/2693197/04054629f14b4352a71c1bd30dcd757e/eyJ3IjoyMDB9/7.jpg?token-hash=-DSsi06LPmpajH_O5e0etMTnKbvNdCL6YYwGnGBosME%3D"
  },
  "authors": [
    {
      "id": "c2693197-context_cids:2693197-product_surface:collab_post_byline",
      "name": "Alex Hefner",
      "url": "https://www.patreon.com/alexhefner",
      "image_url": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/campaign/2693197/04054629f14b4352a71c1bd30dcd757e/eyJ3IjoxMjB9/7.jpg?token-hash=C08dMlx4Jv6ktA0iJx_PfmoHyV6sF2YjLeliT9knxVE%3D&token-time=1790380800"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [],
  "access_rules": [
    {
      "id": "8489498",
      "type": "patrons",
      "amount_cents": null,
      "currency": "USD",
      "tier_id": null
    }
  ],
  "collection_id": "1986892",
  "collection_title": "Attack on Titan Collection",
  "collection_url": "https://www.patreon.com/collection/1986892",
  "page": 1
}

Complete failed dataset item:

{
  "input": "https://www.patreon.com/collection/1986892",
  "status": "failed",
  "id": null,
  "type": null,
  "url": null,
  "title": null,
  "post_type": null,
  "created_at": null,
  "published_at": null,
  "edited_at": null,
  "is_accessible": null,
  "is_locked": null,
  "is_paid": null,
  "is_preview_blurred": null,
  "content_json": null,
  "content_text": null,
  "teaser_text": null,
  "comment_count": null,
  "commenter_count": null,
  "like_count": null,
  "reshare_count": null,
  "view_count": null,
  "min_amount_cents": null,
  "image_url": null,
  "thumbnail_url": null,
  "image_width": null,
  "image_height": null,
  "thumbnail_versions": null,
  "file_url": null,
  "duration_seconds": null,
  "embed": null,
  "audio": null,
  "video": null,
  "audio_preview": null,
  "images": null,
  "attachments": null,
  "media": null,
  "poll": null,
  "creator": null,
  "author": null,
  "authors": null,
  "tags": null,
  "access_rules": null,
  "collection_id": null,
  "collection_title": null,
  "collection_url": null,
  "page": null
}

A failed row preserves input, sets status to failed, and sets every other top-level field to null. The reason is written to the run log. Optional successful values remain null or empty when Patreon omits them. The single dataset view exposes object fields as useful columns; arrays are kept in their parent row rather than expanded into additional rows or views.

Input and pagination settings ⚙️

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Rules
inputList	array of strings	Yes	None	Enter Patreon /collection/ID URLs or numeric collection IDs. Posts follow the collection order.
pagesPerCollection	integer	No	1	Maximum result pages per input. Preparation requests do not count. A short page can still have a continuation. Minimum 1.

Enter supported Patreon collection URLs or identifiers. Use Creator Posts Scraper when you need an author’s full feed instead of a specific collection.

Use supported Patreon paths on www.patreon.com or patreon.com. HTTPS is required for full URLs; those two hosts can also be entered without the scheme. URLs with credentials, custom ports or unsupported paths are not accepted.

Duplicate normalized inputs are processed once. A returned identifier is deduplicated within the pagination of one source input; the same object found under different source inputs retains each source relationship.

The first result request counts as page 1. Source validation and preparation requests do not consume result pages. A short or filtered page can continue if it supplies a usable cursor. Collection stops at the page budget or the end of pagination; a repeated cursor does not trigger an endless loop.

Patreon collection posts use cases 🎯

Series post inventories

Collect the titles, links and access state of a specific series. Use the records to review its public-facing structure.

Course metadata research

Prepare a source-linked list of lessons or posts from a known collection. Keep access restrictions explicit when analyzing the exported data.

Collection comparisons

Collect selected collections and compare formats, dates or visible counters in your own tools without losing the source collection.

Pricing and saved-result behavior 💰

Check the Actor’s Pricing tab for the active charging model and current rate. Store settings may change, so this README does not state an unverified fixed price or runtime.

Under dataset-item pricing:

• Each unique success result represents one post for its source input.
• An invalid or unavailable input, an input with no accessible results, or a request that exhausts retries can produce a failed row.
• Retry attempts and supporting metadata requests do not create extra dataset rows by themselves.
• Nested media, tiers, poll choices and source fields stay inside their parent result when relevant.
• A normal empty continuation after earlier successes creates no additional result row.
• Saved failed rows are not assumed to be free. Check the active pricing configuration for their treatment.

Larger page budgets and more inputs can produce more saved rows. Start with a small run and check actual usage before increasing the workload.

Patreon collection posts API 🔌

Replace $ACTOR_ID with the identifier shown in this Actor’s API tab and $APIFY_TOKEN with your Apify token.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/$ACTOR_ID/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"inputList":["https://www.patreon.com/collection/1986892"],"pagesPerCollection":1}'

Download JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or other formats available in the Console, or retrieve the dataset through the Apify API. Schedules, webhooks and Apify integrations can connect results to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, cloud storage or your own backend. These are connection options rather than integrations already configured by the Actor.

Reliability, retries, and public-data limits ⚠️

Collection uses pure HTTP with up to five concurrent requests. Invalid syntax and confirmed missing, removed or inaccessible targets stop without unnecessary retries. Temporary network or proxy failures, timeouts, blocking responses, malformed data, throttling and server errors are retried up to five total attempts per request.

Earlier successful pages remain saved when a later request fails. A normal end after previously saved results is not retried. An input that produces no accessible results can receive a failed row; this does not by itself prove the underlying account or collection does not exist. A later exhausted request can append a failed row while keeping earlier output.

Patreon controls public availability, ranking, fields and pagination. Private, deleted, restricted or otherwise unavailable data can be omitted. Counts can change during collection, and media links can expire. Successful HTTP research confirms the supported request paths and pagination on tested sources, rather than future availability or exhaustive coverage.

Collection order is not necessarily chronological. A closed or subscriber-only series can expose public post cards without full content. The declared collection post total and the number of accessible unique rows can differ.

An invalid string within a valid input list does not stop other inputs. A configuration that fails validation, such as a non-string list item or an invalid page-count type, exits before requests start. Infrastructure errors such as startup failure, unavailable dataset storage or an unrecoverable result-save error can stop the whole run. A failed dataset save is not retried as a new scraping request.

Frequently asked questions ❓

Does it preserve the collection’s order?

It requests the website’s collection order and follows its pagination. That order may differ from publication-date order.

Does it unlock a paid course or video series?

No. The Actor collects the public-facing records available to a guest. Protected content and files remain unavailable.

Can I collect more than one collection?

Yes, supported collection inputs are processed separately. The same post can retain a separate source relationship when it appears in different collections.

Does it require Patreon login or personal cookies?

No. The Actor uses HTTP requests from the public website. It does not require a Patreon account, password or personal session cookie, and does not launch a browser.

What happens to invalid or unavailable inputs?

Invalid individual inputs are saved as failed rows without a source request. Confirmed unavailable targets stop without unnecessary retries. Temporary failures allow up to five total attempts; other inputs and previously saved results remain available.

Can I export results or schedule runs?

Yes. Download the default dataset in supported formats or retrieve it through the Apify API. Apify schedules and completion webhooks can connect repeated runs to your own workflow.

Support, responsible use, and related actors 🛟

For a reproducible issue, use the Actor’s Issues tab and provide the run ID, approximate time, safe public input, expected behavior and actual result. Include the selected mode or page count when applicable. Do not share access tokens, cookies or proxy credentials.

Use public data responsibly and follow applicable privacy, copyright, contractual and platform requirements before storing, analyzing or redistributing collected information.