Kickstarter Scraper

🚀 Kickstarter Scraper

Scrape Kickstarter projects by keyword, category, location, status or funding filters, or straight from project, creator and discover URLs. Every project comes with its goal, amount pledged, backers, dates, creator, location and category, plus the full reward tiers, tags, video, comment and update counts. No login, no browser, and it is cheap per project.

✨ Why use Kickstarter Scraper?

• ⚡ Fast: reads Kickstarter's own JSON and project data over plain HTTP, with no browser, in parallel.
• 🎯 Every way in: search terms, category, location, status, pledged, goal, % raised and sort filters, or paste any project, creator profile or discover URL.
• 🎁 Full project details: reward tiers with prices, backers and delivery dates, tags, video, story profile, comments and updates, on top of the funding numbers.
• 📈 Past the 2,400 limit: Kickstarter shows at most 2,400 projects per search ordering; the scraper reads the same search in other orderings to go further, without duplicates.
• 🔓 No login needed: only public project data.
• 💸 Pay per project: one simple price per result; the residential proxy traffic it needs is small (about 0.2 MB per project with full details).

🎯 Use cases

• 📊 Market research: see what gets funded in a category, at what goal, with which reward prices.
• 🧭 Campaign planning: benchmark goals, reward tiers and timelines before you launch.
• 🔔 Monitoring: track live projects in your niche or city and their funding progress on a schedule.
• 🤝 Lead generation: find creators and hardware startups that just launched or just succeeded.
• 🎓 Academic research: build crowdfunding datasets by category, country and outcome.

🚀 How to use

1. Enter one or more Search terms, or paste Kickstarter URLs (projects, creator profiles or discover pages).
2. Optionally set Filters: category, location, status, sort, pledged, goal, % raised, Projects We Love.
3. Set Max results.
4. Click Start and download the data as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read it through the API.

📥 Input

{
  "queries": ["board game"],
  "category": "games/tabletop games",
  "status": "live",
  "sort": "most_funded",
  "location": "United States",
  "maxResults": 100
}

📤 Output

One row per project. The main fields:

Example row (trimmed; names and numbers are illustrative):

{
  "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/examplegames/lantern-isles-a-cozy-island-board-game",
  "id": 1234567890,
  "name": "Lantern Isles: A Cozy Island Board Game",
  "blurb": "Build glowing harbours, trade with neighbours and light up the archipelago in 45 minutes.",
  "state": "successful",
  "goal": 15000.0,
  "pledged": 84210.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "usd_pledged": "84210.0",
  "backers_count": 1630,
  "country": "US",
  "deadline": 1788217200,
  "launched_at": 1785625200,
  "successful_at": 1788217200,
  "staff_pick": true,
  "creator": {"id": 987654321, "name": "Example Games", "slug": "examplegames"},
  "location": {"displayable_name": "Portland, OR", "country": "US"},
  "category": {"id": 34, "name": "Tabletop Games", "slug": "games/tabletop games", "parent_name": "Games"},
  "comments_count": 212,
  "updates_count": 14,
  "tags": ["Board Games", "Family"],
  "rewards": [
    {"id": 9000001, "minimum": 39, "title_for_backing_tier": "$39 reward", "description": "One copy of Lantern Isles.",
     "estimated_delivery_on": 1798761600, "shipping_type": "anywhere", "backers_count": 1210}
  ],
  "percent_funded": 561.4,
  "launched_date": "2026-07-26T23:00:00Z",
  "deadline_date": "2026-08-25T23:00:00Z"
}

💰 Pricing

• $2.00 per 1,000 projects ($0.002 per project saved). Nothing is charged for inputs that return no projects.
• Platform usage is billed on top at the normal rates and is small: with full details each project needs about 0.2 MB of residential proxy traffic, so 1,000 projects add roughly $0.40 of proxy and a few cents of compute (512 MB memory). Listing-only mode needs far less.
• Worked example: 1,000 projects with full details ≈ $2.45 in total.
• Set a maximum total charge on the run to cap spending; the scraper stops cleanly when it is reached.

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Kickstarter? The scraper reads only public project pages that anyone can open without an account. Check Kickstarter's terms and your local law for how you use the data, and do not collect personal data you have no reason to keep.

Do I need a login or my own proxy? No. No account is needed. The built-in residential proxy is preselected because Kickstarter's Cloudflare protection blocks datacenter IPs; you pay only for the few kilobytes each project needs.

How many results can I get? Kickstarter's discover pages stop after 2,400 projects for one search ordering. When a search has more matches, the scraper reads it again in other orderings (newest, end date, most funded, most backed, popularity, magic) and skips duplicates, which reaches several thousand projects. For complete coverage of a huge set, split it with categories, locations or status filters.

Why is a field empty? Kickstarter fills fields only when they apply: successful_at exists only for funded projects, video only when the creator uploaded one, and upcoming projects have no pledges yet. With Full project details off, the reward, tag, video, comment and update fields are left out.

Can I schedule it or use the API? Yes. Save your input as a task, schedule it, and read the dataset over the API or with webhooks.

⚠️ Limits

• Only public data: no backer lists, no private messages, no creator e-mail addresses.
• Comments and update posts themselves are not scraped, only their counts.
• Kickstarter rounds usd_pledged with its own exchange rate; pledged is in the project's currency.
• Discover results are capped by Kickstarter at 2,400 per ordering (see FAQ).