# Kick Scraper — Fast & Enterprise Grade (`thirdwatch/kick-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Kick.com channel profiles, past streams (VODs), and clips: titles, views, durations, thumbnails, and playback URLs via the public API. Built for research and data pipelines. No login, cookies, or API keys — clean JSON output and pay-per-result pricing.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/thirdwatch/kick-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Thirdwatch](https://apify.com/thirdwatch) (community)
- **Categories:** Videos, Social media
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Kick Scraper — Channels, VODs & Clips

> **Thirdwatch portfolio:** 5K users across 97 public Actors, 2M+ records delivered, and >99% run success. [Explore all Thirdwatch Actors](https://apify.com/thirdwatch).

Scrape Kick.com through its public API — channel profiles with follower counts and live status, plus past streams (VODs) and clips with titles, views, durations, and playback URLs.

Use it for streamer analytics, VOD archiving workflows, clip discovery, and creator-economy research.

### Why this Actor

- **Public API path:** stable JSON responses, no DOM scraping.
- **Three data types:** channel profile, VODs, and clips — toggleable per run.
- **Playback URLs:** VOD rows include stream playback URLs and thumbnails.
- **Live state:** `isLive`, `liveTitle`, and `liveViewers` on channel rows.

### Quick start

```json
{
  "channels": ["xqc"],
  "includeVideos": true,
  "maxVideos": 10
}
```

### Input

| Field | Required | Description |
|---|---:|---|
| `channels` | Yes | Kick channel slugs. |
| `includeVideos` | No | Fetch past-stream VODs per channel. Default: `false`. |
| `includeClips` | No | Fetch clips per channel. Default: `false`. |
| `maxVideos` | No | Cap on VODs/clips per channel. Default: 20. |

### Output

Channel rows: `slug`, `userId`, `followersCount`, `isLive`, `liveTitle`, `liveViewers`, `url`.

Video/clip rows:

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `type` | `video` or `clip`. |
| `id`, `title`, `url`, `videoUrl` | Content identity and links. |
| `slug` | Owning channel. |
| `views`, `durationSeconds` | View count and length. |
| `createdAt`, `thumbnail` | Publish time and thumbnail. |
| `playbackUrl` | Stream playback URL for VODs. |

### Notes & limitations

- Kick's API is undocumented and unauthenticated; field availability can shift.
- Viewer counts are point-in-time at scrape.

# Actor input Schema

## `channels` (type: `array`):

Kick channel slugs or URLs, e.g. xqc or https://kick.com/xqc

## `includeVideos` (type: `boolean`):

Include videos/VODs

## `includeClips` (type: `boolean`):

Include clips

## `maxVideos` (type: `integer`):

Max videos per channel

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channels": [
    "xqc"
  ],
  "includeVideos": true,
  "includeClips": false,
  "maxVideos": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "channels": [
        "xqc"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("thirdwatch/kick-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "channels": ["xqc"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("thirdwatch/kick-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "channels": [
    "xqc"
  ]
}' |
apify call thirdwatch/kick-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,thirdwatch/kick-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/6flWkKYwNWcx9dxjY/builds/m98AP9dMfXJPxwYkb/openapi.json