ParseForge
Kickstarter Projects Scraper
parseforge/kickstarter-scraper
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Scrapes Kickstarter projects by search term, category, and sort order. Returns each project as a flat row with funding, backers, deadline, and creator details.
- Total users
- 11
- Monthly active
- 0
- Total runs
- 135
- Bookmarked
- 0
- Rating
- Not rated yet
- Last modified
- 12 days ago
Overview
🚀 Kickstarter Projects Scraper
🚀 Export Kickstarter crowdfunding project data in seconds. No API key needed. No login required. Just hit run and get structured JSON, CSV, or Excel - instantly.
The Kickstarter Projects Scraper extracts live crowdfunding data from Kickstarter.com - the world's largest crowdfunding platform. Every record is scraped in real-time from Kickstarter's own data, so you always get current funding status, backer counts, and deadlines.
With over 676,000 indexed projects spanning technology, games, design, film, music, and more, this scraper gives researchers, investors, journalists, and marketers direct access to the pulse of the innovation economy - without ever opening a browser.
Coverage
676,000+ projects across 16 top-level categories (Art, Comics, Crafts, Dance, Design, Fashion, Film & Video, Food, Games, Journalism, Music, Photography, Publishing, Technology, Theater). Each record includes 15 structured fields: funding goal, amount pledged, backer count, percent funded, days remaining, project status (live, successful, failed), creator name, location, and project image.
📋 What the Kickstarter Scraper does
- Searches Kickstarter projects by keyword, category, and sort order
- Extracts funding goal, pledged amount, backer count, and percent funded
- Captures project status (live, successful, failed), days left, and deadline
- Returns creator name, location, project blurb, and image URL
- Paginates automatically to collect up to 1,000,000 records
- Outputs clean JSON/CSV/Excel ready for analysis
💡 Why it matters: Kickstarter data is a leading indicator of consumer demand. Projects that get funded signal real market validation - before any retail launch, press coverage, or distribution. This scraper gives you that signal at scale.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: backers, blurb, category, creator, daysLeft, goal, imageUrl, location, percentFunded, pledged, results, scrapedAt, status, title, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- Create a free Apify account (includes $5 credit)
- Go to the Kickstarter Projects Scraper page
- Click Try for free
- Enter your search keyword, select a category, set
maxItems - Click Save & Run
- Download your dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel
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This scraper accesses only publicly available data on Kickstarter.com. Use in accordance with Kickstarter's terms of service and applicable laws. ParseForge is not affiliated with Kickstarter PBC.
🆘 Need Help?
If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.
For faster answers, join our Discord. It's the best place to get support and suggest new actors.
Input
| Field | Type | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| search | string | Keyword to search for Kickstarter projects (e.g. "technology", "board game", "film"). | technology |
| maxItems | integer | How many projects to collect per run. | 10 |
| category | string (16 options) | Filter projects by Kickstarter category. | not set |
| sort | string (5 options) | Sort order for project results. | magic |
Pricing
from $19.00 per 1,000 results
| Charged for | What it is | Price each |
|---|---|---|
| result | Single result in the default dataset. | $0.019 to $0.021 |
Tiered: the lower figure is the price on a higher Apify plan. Billing and the free credit live on Apify.
API
One POST returns the dataset directly. Same shape for every scraper in the library, so swapping the slug is the only change.
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~kickstarter-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"search": "technology",
"maxItems": 3
}' Examples
Input that runs as-is.
{
"search": "technology",
"maxItems": 3
} Reviews
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Issues
We build and maintain this scraper, so a problem with it comes to us. Report it on the Apify listing and the thread stays attached to the scraper where the next person can find it: open an issue.
Broken and urgent, or you would rather not post in public? Write to parseforge@protonmail.com and it reaches the people who wrote it.