Behance Scraper

Pull creative projects, creator profiles, and project comment threads from Behance (Adobe's portfolio platform) at scale — complete with appreciation counts, view counts, creative-field tags, and the dominant color palette as hex per project. Search by keyword, browse a creative-field gallery, or paste a project or profile URL. Built for creative recruiters, design agencies, and trend researchers who need structured Behance portfolio data without browsing the site project by project.

Why This Scraper?

• Three record types in one run — creative projects, creator profiles, and project comment threads, each emitted as its own clean, filterable row in a single dataset. Keyword and gallery runs spread comments evenly across every project they collect; paste a project URL to pull that one thread in full.
• 14 creative-field galleries — browse Photography, Graphic Design, Illustration, UI/UX, 3D Art, Motion, Architecture, Product Design, Fashion, Advertising, Fine Arts, Crafts, Game Design, or Sound feeds directly.
• 5 sort orders — Recommended, Curated, Most Recent, Most Appreciated, and Most Viewed, so you can rank by curation, freshness, or popularity.
• Engagement metrics on every project — appreciations and view counts pulled for each work (plus comment count and the full tools list on project rows fetched by URL), ready for popularity and trend analysis.
• Color palette extracted as hex — each project carries its dominant color as a #rrggbb value for design-trend and palette research.
• Creator profiles with reach signals — username, display name, occupation, location, follower count, following count, and total appreciations per creator.
• Search keyword or paste a URL — keyword-search projects or creators, or drop in a behance.net/gallery/... project link or a behance.net/username profile link; the type is detected automatically.
• Country-level filtering — narrow projects and creators to any of 44 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and MENA.
• Up to ~10,000 results per query — paginates smoothly to Behance's own per-search ceiling, with creative-field tags on every project row.

Use Cases

Creative Recruitment & Talent Sourcing

• Build shortlists of illustrators, UI/UX designers, or 3D artists by creative field and country
• Surface high-engagement creators by follower count and total appreciations
• Pull a candidate's full project list, occupation, and location before reaching out

Design Trend & Market Research

• Track which styles, tools, and color palettes are trending in a creative field
• Rank projects by appreciations or views to find what resonates this season
• Monitor a creative field's gallery feed over time for emerging aesthetics

Agency Competitive Analysis

• Benchmark a competitor's portfolio output, engagement, and featured work
• See which projects earn the most appreciations and comments in your niche
• Audit a studio's published-project count and audience reach

Lead Generation for Creative Services

• Find active creators in a target country and creative field
• Capture profile occupation and reach signals to qualify outreach lists
• Enrich a CRM with structured creator data instead of manual profile copying

Audience & Sentiment Insight

• Collect a project's full comment thread to gauge community reaction
• Analyze commenter language to understand how work is received
• Pair comment sentiment with appreciation and view counts for a fuller picture

Getting Started

Basic Keyword Search

The simplest run — one topic, 50 projects:

{
    "searchQueries": ["logo design"],
    "maxItems": 50
}

Sorted & Country-Filtered Search

Find the most-appreciated branding work from creators in Japan:

{
    "searchQueries": ["brand identity"],
    "searchType": "projects",
    "sortBy": "appreciations",
    "country": "JP",
    "maxItems": 100
}

Browse a Creative-Field Gallery

Pull a full field gallery — leave searchQueries empty and pick a field:

{
    "searchQueries": [],
    "creativeField": "photography",
    "maxItems": 0
}

Profiles, URLs, and Comments

Search for creators, scrape specific links, and collect comment threads:

{
    "searchQueries": ["motion designer"],
    "searchType": "creators",
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.behance.net/gallery/123456789/My-Project",
        "https://www.behance.net/janedoe"
    ],
    "includeComments": true,
    "maxItems": 200
}

Input Reference

What to Scrape

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	string[]	["logo design"]	Keywords to search on Behance, such as logo design or 3d illustration. Each keyword produces its own set of results. Leave empty if you are only using URLs.
startUrls	string[]	[]	Paste Behance project (behance.net/gallery/...) or creator-profile (behance.net/username) URLs directly. The type is detected automatically from the URL.

Search Options

These refine keyword searches only — pasted URLs carry their own context.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchType	string	"projects"	Whether keyword searches return Creative Projects or Creators / Profiles.
sortBy	string	"recommended"	Result order: Recommended, Curated, Most Recent, Most Appreciated, or Most Viewed. Applies when searching projects.

Browse & Filter

Browse a whole creative field's gallery instead of searching, and narrow results to one country.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
creativeField	string	"" (Any field)	Browse one creative field's gallery (Photography, UI/UX, Illustration, and 11 more). A creative field cannot be combined with a search keyword — if both are set, the keyword search runs and the field is ignored. To browse a field, leave searchQueries empty.
country	string	"" (Any country)	Limit creators and projects to one of 44 countries. Leave as Any country for worldwide results.

Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	50	Maximum results for the whole run, counted across every keyword, gallery and URL together — two keywords with a limit of 100 return 100 results, not 200. The limit is split evenly between them, and whatever one doesn't use passes to the others. Comments count towards it too. Set to 0 for no limit — Behance returns up to about 10,000 results per search, a platform ceiling we don't impose.
includeComments	boolean	false	Also collect the comments on each project as separate rows. Each comment counts towards maxItems, and every project gets an equal share of it — up to 3 comments each, slightly more where a project has none to give — so you get reactions across the whole set rather than one long thread. Paste a project URL under startUrls for that project's thread in full.

Output

Every row carries a recordType field — project, profile, or comment — so you can filter cleanly downstream. Empty fields are omitted from each row.

Project (recordType: "project")

Note: description, tools, and commentCount are available only on project rows fetched by a direct project URL (a behance.net/gallery/... link in startUrls). Behance's keyword-search and creative-field gallery cards don't carry these three fields, so they're omitted from search/gallery rows. Every other field below is present on all project rows.

{
    "recordType": "project",
    "id": 123456789,
    "url": "https://www.behance.net/gallery/123456789/Brand-Identity",
    "name": "Brand Identity — Aurora Coffee",
    "description": "A warm, minimal identity system for a specialty roaster.",
    "coverImage": "https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/projects/808/abc123.jpg",
    "createdOn": "2025-03-14T09:22:00+00:00",
    "modifiedOn": "2025-03-16T11:05:00+00:00",
    "appreciations": 1840,
    "views": 27310,
    "commentCount": 64,
    "featured": false,
    "fields": ["Branding", "Graphic Design", "Logo Design"],
    "featuredIn": ["Branding", "Best of Behance"],
    "tools": ["Illustrator", "Photoshop"],
    "colors": ["#c4452a"],
    "ownerId": 555111,
    "ownerUsername": "janedoe",
    "ownerName": "Jane Doe",
    "ownerUrl": "https://www.behance.net/janedoe",
    "searchQuery": "brand identity"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "project"
id	number	Behance project ID
url	string	Canonical project URL
name	string	Project title
description	string	Project description. Project-URL rows only (not search/gallery cards).
coverImage	string	Best-available cover image URL
createdOn	string	Publish date (ISO-8601 UTC)
modifiedOn	string	Last-modified date (ISO-8601 UTC)
appreciations	number	Appreciation (like) count
views	number	View count
commentCount	number	Number of comments on the project. Project-URL rows only (not search/gallery cards).
featured	boolean	true when the project is flagged as Behance premium (paid/gated) content; false for standard public projects
fields	string[]	The project's creative fields, as shown on the project page (Branding, Graphic Design, Illustration)
featuredIn	string[]	Behance galleries the project was featured in, when it was picked up by any. Curation signal, not a creative field.
tools	string[]	Tools used, when listed. Project-URL rows only (not search/gallery cards).
colors	string[]	Dominant color as a #rrggbb hex value
ownerId	number	Creator user ID
ownerUsername	string	Creator username
ownerName	string	Creator display name
ownerUrl	string	Creator profile URL
searchQuery	string	The keyword, gallery, or URL that produced this row

Profile (recordType: "profile")

Note: website is available only on profile rows fetched by a direct profile URL (a behance.net/username link in startUrls). Creator keyword-search cards don't carry it, so it's omitted from search rows.

{
    "recordType": "profile",
    "id": 555111,
    "username": "janedoe",
    "url": "https://www.behance.net/janedoe",
    "displayName": "Jane Doe",
    "firstName": "Jane",
    "lastName": "Doe",
    "occupation": "Brand & Motion Designer",
    "avatarImage": "https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/user/138/jane.jpg",
    "city": "Tokyo",
    "state": "Tokyo",
    "country": "Japan",
    "fields": ["Branding", "Motion"],
    "followers": 12400,
    "following": 310,
    "appreciations": 98200,
    "projectViews": 1450000,
    "website": "https://janedoe.design",
    "createdOn": "2014-07-01T00:00:00+00:00",
    "searchQuery": "motion designer"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "profile"
id	number	Creator user ID
username	string	Behance username
url	string	Profile URL
displayName	string	Display name
firstName	string	First name, when present
lastName	string	Last name, when present
occupation	string	Stated occupation / headline
avatarImage	string	Avatar image URL
city	string	City
state	string	State / region
country	string	Country
fields	string[]	Creative fields the creator works in
followers	number	Follower count
following	number	Following count
appreciations	number	Total appreciations received
projectViews	number	Total project views
website	string	Personal website, when public. Profile-URL rows only (not creator-search cards).
createdOn	string	Account creation date (ISO-8601 UTC)
searchQuery	string	The keyword or URL that produced this row

Comment (recordType: "comment")

Emitted only when includeComments: true — one row per comment.

{
    "recordType": "comment",
    "projectId": 123456789,
    "projectUrl": "https://www.behance.net/gallery/123456789/Brand-Identity",
    "commentId": 99887766,
    "text": "The color system here is gorgeous — love the warm palette.",
    "createdOn": "2025-03-15T18:40:00+00:00",
    "authorId": 777222,
    "authorUsername": "marco_v",
    "authorName": "Marco Vidal"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "comment"
projectId	number	Parent project ID
projectUrl	string	Parent project URL
commentId	number	Unique comment ID
text	string	Comment body
createdOn	string	Comment timestamp (ISO-8601 UTC)
authorId	number	Commenter user ID
authorUsername	string	Commenter username
authorName	string	Commenter display name

Tips for Best Results

• Leave maxItems at 0 to pull a full creative-field gallery. With a field set and searchQueries empty, a maxItems of 0 sweeps the entire gallery feed up to Behance's ~10,000 ceiling.
• Don't combine a keyword with a creative field. They're mutually exclusive — if you set both, the keyword wins and the field is ignored. To browse a field, leave searchQueries empty.
• Pick the right sort order. Use Most Appreciated or Most Viewed to find proven, popular work; use Most Recent to catch what creators just published.
• Raise maxItems when you turn comments on. Comments are billed as results and share the same limit, and every project gets an equal slice of it — so a run capped at 300 returns about 75 projects with 3 comments each rather than 300 projects. Give it room, or keep includeComments off unless you're doing audience analysis. For one project's complete thread, paste its URL under startUrls instead.
• Start small to test, then scale. Run with maxItems of 10–50 first to confirm your filters are right, then raise the cap for the full pull.
• Batch many keywords in one run. Several keywords can share one run and one result limit, and anything a second keyword returns that you already have is skipped rather than billed twice.
• Use the country filter for talent sourcing. Country filtering is exact for creator searches, making it ideal for building region-specific recruitment shortlists.

Pricing

From $4.00 per 1,000 results — you pay per result, well below the subscription rentals common for Behance data. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows total cost at each discount tier.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.48	$0.45	$0.43	$0.40
1,000	$4.80	$4.50	$4.25	$4.00
10,000	$48.00	$45.00	$42.50	$40.00
100,000	$480.00	$450.00	$425.00	$400.00

A "result" is any row in the output dataset — a project, a profile, or a comment. With includeComments on, each comment is billed as its own result. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor collects publicly available data from Behance for legitimate research, recruitment, market analysis, and lead-generation purposes. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and with Behance's and Adobe's terms of service, including respecting rate limits, intellectual-property rights, and the privacy of any personal data. Do not use extracted data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose.