Kickstarter Scraper — Projects, Funding, Backers & Rewards

Scrape Kickstarter projects by keyword, category, state, location, goal or funding range, or from any Kickstarter discover URL or project page. Get the pledged amount, goal, currency and USD values, percent funded, backers, launch and deadline dates, creator, location, "Project We Love" flag, image and video for every project, and optionally the reward tiers, FAQ/update/comment counts, risks and the full campaign story.

Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, call it through the API, or schedule it to track live campaigns every day. No login and no Kickstarter account needed. You pay only for the projects you get.

What data does Kickstarter Scraper extract?

Field	Description
id	Kickstarter project id
name, blurb	Project title and short description
url, projectPath, rewardsUrl	Project page, creator/slug path, rewards page
state	live, successful, failed, canceled, suspended, or submitted / started for upcoming (pre-launch) pages
isLaunched, prelaunchActivated, inLatePledgePhase	Launched yet, has a pre-launch page, still taking late pledges after the campaign
category, categoryId, parentCategory	Subcategory (e.g. Tabletop Games) and its parent (Games)
creatorName, creatorId, creatorUrl	Creator name and profile URL as shown on the project
location, locationId, country, countryName	Project location (Kickstarter WOE id) and country
currency, goal, pledged	Goal and pledged amount in the project currency
goalUsd, pledgedUsd, usdExchangeRate	The same in US dollars (Kickstarter's own conversion rate)
percentFunded, backersCount	Funding progress and number of backers
launchedAt, deadline, durationDays, createdAt, stateChangedAt	Campaign dates (ISO 8601, UTC)
staffPick, spotlight	"Project We Love" badge, project spotlight page
imageUrl, videoUrl, videoThumbnailUrl	Main image (1024x576) and campaign video (MP4)
source, scrapedAt	The search or URL the project came from, and when

With Include project details (and always for project URLs):

Field	Description
rewards	Reward tiers: title, description, price, currency, backersCount, limit, remaining, estimatedDelivery, shipping, available, endsAt, items
rewardsCount, addOnsCount	Number of reward tiers and add-ons
faqCount, updatesCount, commentsCount	FAQ entries, project updates, comments
risks	The "Risks and challenges" text
storyText	The campaign story as plain text (paragraphs kept, images and videos left out)

How to scrape Kickstarter projects by keyword or category

1. Type one or more Search terms (e.g. board game, 3d printer), or leave them empty to browse.
2. Optionally pick a Category or type a Subcategory (Tabletop Games, Product Design, Gadgets...), a Project state (live, upcoming, ending soon, successful, failed, canceled, late pledges), a Sort, a Location (London, Berlin, Germany, Japan), goal / pledged ranges in USD, a minimum or maximum percent funded, or Only Projects We Love.
3. Set Max items and click Start.

You can also paste any Kickstarter discover URL with the filters you set in the browser (/discover/advanced?..., /discover/categories/..., /discover/places/..., /discover/tags/...) into Start URLs.

How to scrape a list of Kickstarter campaigns (project URLs)

Paste project pages such as https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elanlee/exploding-kittens into Start URLs. Each one comes back with all the fields above plus the details (rewards, counts, risks, story). Mix them freely with searches in one run.

Input example

{
  "searchTerms": ["board game"],
  "subcategory": "Tabletop Games",
  "state": "live",
  "sort": "end_date",
  "percentFundedMin": 100,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Output example

{
  "id": 848455089,
  "name": "Sous Coffee: Hot Coffee in Every Sip",
  "blurb": "Sous Coffee fits on your favorite coffee mug and keeps your coffee hot, no matter how slow you sip",
  "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/souscoffee/sous-coffee-hot-coffee-in-every-sip",
  "projectPath": "souscoffee/sous-coffee-hot-coffee-in-every-sip",
  "state": "live",
  "isLaunched": true,
  "prelaunchActivated": true,
  "inLatePledgePhase": false,
  "category": "Product Design",
  "categoryId": 28,
  "parentCategory": "Design",
  "creatorName": "Sean Grandfield",
  "creatorId": 44671201,
  "creatorUrl": "https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/souscoffee",
  "location": "Minneapolis, MN",
  "locationId": 2452078,
  "country": "US",
  "countryName": "United States",
  "currency": "USD",
  "goal": 5000,
  "pledged": 14212,
  "percentFunded": 284.24,
  "backersCount": 221,
  "goalUsd": 5000,
  "pledgedUsd": 14212,
  "usdExchangeRate": 1,
  "launchedAt": "2026-09-15T16:00:13Z",
  "deadline": "2026-10-30T16:00:13Z",
  "durationDays": 45,
  "createdAt": "2025-08-28T17:03:59Z",
  "stateChangedAt": "2026-09-15T16:00:17Z",
  "staffPick": false,
  "spotlight": false,
  "imageUrl": "https://i.kickstarter.com/assets/052/051/296/b5d4f23588c262ab09443b829dfae57a_original.jpg?...",
  "videoUrl": "https://v2.kickstarter.com/.../projects/5206485/video-1459836-h264_high.mp4",
  "videoThumbnailUrl": "https://d15chbti7ht62o.cloudfront.net/projects/5206485/video-1459836-h264_720.jpg?2026",
  "rewardsUrl": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/souscoffee/sous-coffee-hot-coffee-in-every-sip/rewards",
  "source": "search:coffee",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-10T06:46:25Z",
  "rewards": [
    {
      "title": "VIP",
      "description": "Secure Sous Coffee at our lowest VIP price and save 49% off the expected $99 retail price. Limited to the first 100 backers. ...",
      "price": 49,
      "currency": "USD",
      "backersCount": 100,
      "limit": 100,
      "remaining": 0,
      "estimatedDelivery": "2027-03-01",
      "shipping": "unrestricted",
      "available": false,
      "endsAt": null,
      "items": ["Sous Coffee"]
    }
  ],
  "rewardsCount": 7,
  "addOnsCount": 0,
  "faqCount": 10,
  "updatesCount": 1,
  "commentsCount": 4,
  "risks": "Bringing a new hardware product into production involves several moving parts. ...",
  "storyText": "Meet Sous Coffee\n\nWe've all been there. You pour a fresh cup of coffee, get caught up in work or life, and when you finally reach for your mug again, it's gone cold. ..."
}

Monitor changes on a schedule

Turn on Only new or changed items and save the input as a task with a Schedule (for example daily). The Actor remembers what earlier runs of the same search or project list returned and outputs only new projects and projects whose pledged amount, backer count or state changed (a campaign that ends shows up as live -> successful or failed). Unchanged projects are not output and not charged; for project URLs the Actor first checks a tiny stats file, so an unchanged campaign costs almost nothing. Each output item has changeType (new or changed) and, for changes, previousValues with the old pledged, backersCount or state. Max items is the number of projects checked per run (e.g. the 100 newest live Tabletop Games campaigns), and Monitoring key keeps several watches on the same search apart.

How many results can I get per search?

Kickstarter shows at most 200 pages of 48 projects (9,600) per search. When you ask for more, the Actor splits the search automatically into narrower searches (by category, then goal range, then percent funded) and removes duplicates, so you can collect far beyond that window (for example tens of thousands of successful projects in one run). The combined output is then grouped by those slices rather than in one global sort order.

Does it work without login or cookies?

Yes. Everything comes from pages and data Kickstarter shows to any visitor. No account, cookie or API key is needed.

Pricing

• $0.0007 per project (the result event): $0.70 per 1,000 projects from searches and discover URLs.
• $0.003 per project with details (the detail event, on top of the project): rewards, counts, risks and story when Include project details is on, and for every project URL.
• Apify platform usage (residential proxy traffic, storage and compute) is billed by Apify on top. Measured: about $0.02 per 1,000 projects from searches and about $0.12 per 1,000 projects with details (see the proxy note). Unchanged projects in monitoring mode are free.

Proxy note

Kickstarter is protected by Cloudflare, which blocks datacenter IPs. The default proxy is Apify RESIDENTIAL, which Apify bills per GB: searches load 48 projects per request (about 60-80 KB, roughly $0.015 per 1,000 projects); details add about 10 KB per project (8 projects per request) plus one project page per run; a project URL loads the full project page (about 150 KB). The Actor rotates IPs and browser fingerprints and retries Cloudflare challenges automatically; the run's SUMMARY record lists requests, retries and challenges.

Integrations and API

Use the results in Zapier, Make, n8n or Google Sheets, or call the Actor from Python or Node.js with the Apify client. The API tab has ready-made snippets.

Is it legal to scrape Kickstarter?

The Actor collects only data that Kickstarter shows publicly to any visitor without logging in: project pages, funding numbers, reward tiers and the creator name and profile link shown on each project. It never logs in and does not collect backer identities, messages or contact data. You are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with Kickstarter's terms and the law that applies to you (for example GDPR when you store creator names).

Support

Found a bug or need a field or filter added? Open an issue in the Issues tab; it is usually answered within a day.