99designs Designer Portfolio & Stats Finder

Find designers on 99designs and pull their public track record into a clean dataset. Search the designer directory by keyword, design category, experience level, language, industry or certification — or open exact profiles by URL, slug or numeric ID.

Every designer record carries their identity, tier, portfolio and contest statistics, client reviews, availability, languages, certifications, responsiveness score and a slice of their portfolio. No 99designs account, API key or proxy setup is needed.

What you can do

• Search the directory by keyword and up to five filter families: 80 design categories, 3 experience levels, 11 languages, 43 industries and 12 certifications. Filters combine.
• Open exact profiles from profile URLs, slugs (/profiles/ludibes), numeric IDs (2157566) or subpage URLs — duplicates are removed and unreadable profiles are skipped.
• Compare designers on contests won, runner-up placements, 1-to-1 projects, repeat clients, total designs, total likes and review rating.
• See who is available for work, who is online in search results, and how responsive each designer is.
• Collect portfolios — up to 100 designs per designer with image, likes, date, industry and link.
• Choose depth — turn off full-profile details for a fast, lightweight search dataset, and set the portfolio size from 0 to 100.

Output per designer

Field	Meaning
profileId	Numeric 99designs profile ID
username	Profile slug, when the profile has one
name	Display name
level	Top Level, Mid Level or Entry Level
country	Country the designer lists (omitted when not filled in)
bio	Public about text
memberSince	Join date as shown on the profile
totalDesigns	Portfolio size
totalLikes	Likes across the portfolio
reviewRating	Average client rating (omitted when there are no reviews)
reviewCount	Number of client reviews
contestsWon, runnerUp	Contest record
projectsCompleted, repeatClients	1-to-1 project history
expertiseCategories	Design category slugs
languages	Languages the designer lists
certifications	99designs certifications held
responsivenessScore	0–100 response score, when published
avatarUrl, coverImageUrl	Profile and cover images
isAvailable	Available for work
isOnline	Online in search results (search mode only)
portfolioDesigns	Designs with designId, title, imageUrl, likes, createdAt, category, industry, url
url	Direct profile link
recordType, scrapedAt	Record marker and ISO 8601 UTC timestamp

Empty fields are omitted rather than written as null.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	browse	browse searches the directory; profiles opens exact designers
searchQuery	string	–	Keyword for skills and portfolio work (mode=browse)
categories	array	[]	One or more of 80 design categories
designerLevels	array	[]	TOP, MID, ENTRY
languages	array	[]	zh, nl, en, fr, de, id, it, ja, ko, pt, es
industries	array	[]	One or more of 43 industries
certifications	array	[]	One or more of 12 certifications
profileUrls	array	[]	Profile URLs, slugs, numeric IDs or subpage URLs (mode=profiles)
maxItems	integer	20	1–1000 designers to return
includeProfileDetails	boolean	true	Open each search result for bio, stats and portfolio. Off = fast search-only records
maxDesignsPerProfile	integer	12	0–100 portfolio designs per designer; above 12 adds requests

Examples

Search logo designers

{
  "mode": "browse",
  "searchQuery": "logo",
  "categories": ["logo-design", "logo"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Top-level Japanese-speaking t-shirt designers

{
  "mode": "browse",
  "categories": ["t-shirt-design"],
  "designerLevels": ["TOP"],
  "languages": ["ja"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Fast search-only records

{
  "mode": "browse",
  "searchQuery": "packaging",
  "includeProfileDetails": false,
  "maxDesignsPerProfile": 3,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Exact designers by URL, slug and ID

{
  "mode": "profiles",
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://99designs.com/profiles/2157566",
    "ludibes",
    "1022535",
    "https://99designs.com/profiles/gotza/designs/2400998"
  ],
  "maxDesignsPerProfile": 24
}

Use cases

• Designer sourcing — shortlist designers by category, level and language, then compare contest records and repeat-client counts.
• Vendor vetting — open a known profile and check its rating, availability and portfolio before inviting it to a project.
• Market research — measure how many designers work in a category, industry or certification, and compare portfolio depth.
• Portfolio tracking — re-scrape a saved list of designers to follow new designs, likes and review growth over time.

FAQ

Do I need a 99designs account, login or API key? No. The actor reads public designer pages and directory results only. There is nothing to configure and no proxy setup.

How many designers can one search return? This actor returns up to 1,000 designers per run. 99designs itself caps a single search at 10,000 results. If you need more, split the work by category, level, language, industry or certification and combine the datasets. Broad keyword searches can also repeat some results; the actor removes duplicates.

Why is country missing for many designers? Country is optional on 99designs. Only designers who filled it in have it, so it is omitted for the rest instead of guessed.

Why do some designers have no rating or review count? New or low-review designers may not show a public rating yet. Those fields are omitted; all other available fields are still returned.

Why is isOnline missing in profiles mode? Online status is only exposed in directory search results. Search mode fills it; opening an exact profile does not.

How many portfolio designs do I get? 12 by default, configurable from 0 to 100. A designer with fewer designs returns what exists.

What does responsivenessScore mean? It is 99designs' public 0–100 responsiveness indicator for the designer. It is omitted when the site does not publish one.

Are contests included? This actor focuses on designers and their profile data. Contest listings are a separate entity and are not part of this dataset.

Can I use an old saved task? Yes. Existing mode, searchQuery, profileUrls and maxItems inputs keep working, and old single-category inputs are still accepted and mapped to the new category filter.

Is this affiliated with 99designs? No. This is an independent third-party tool and is not operated by or affiliated with 99designs.