# Patreon Hot Creators Scraper 🔥 (`easyapi/patreon-hot-creators-scraper`) Actor

Track trending Patreon creators with 300+ members, featuring real-time growth metrics and detailed creator profiles. Get daily updates on the fastest-growing creators across all categories on Patreon.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/easyapi/patreon-hot-creators-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [EasyApi](https://apify.com/easyapi) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos
- **Stats:** 15 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 2 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Patreon Hot Creators Scraper 🔥

Scrape and monitor trending Patreon creators data, providing comprehensive insights into the fastest-growing creators on the platform.

### Features ✨

- 📊 Track creators with 300+ members showing highest growth rates
- 🏷️ Data organized by content categories
- 📈 Real-time growth percentage metrics
- 👤 Detailed creator profiles including names and creation types
- 🔗 Direct Patreon profile links
- 🖼️ Creator avatar images
- 🔞 Adult content flags for proper content filtering
- ⏰ Timestamp for each data point

### Use Cases 💡

- 📱 Monitor trending creators in your niche
- 📊 Market research for Patreon-based businesses
- 🎯 Identify potential collaboration opportunities
- 📈 Track competition and market trends
- 🔍 Discover emerging content creators

### Limitations ⚠️

- Data is refreshed daily
- Only includes creators with 300+ members
- Growth metrics are based on the last 30 days

### Input Parameters 🛠️

No input parameters required. The actor automatically scrapes the latest data.

### Output Format 📤

Results are stored in JSON format, with each record containing detailed information about a creator including their category, growth metrics, and profile details.

### Getting Started 🚀

1. Click the Start button
2. Wait for the actor to finish
3. Download your data in JSON format

#### Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the **Storage** tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

```
[
	{
		"category": "Video",
		"name": "brome",
		"creationName": "Modded Terraria Enthusiat",
		"growth": 473,
		"url": "https://www.patreon.com/brome",
		"avatarUrl": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/campaign/12994199/a87b2dbf94a143ca818ab562c9670a4c/eyJ3IjoyMDB9/2.jpg?token-time=2145916800&token-hash=hO-lTpoK9hrSm4Us_xvZQIjgeLyReglUPKwz3jJutPw%3D",
		"isAdult": false,
		"scrapedAt": "2024-12-12T05:51:01.953Z"
	},
	{
		"category": "Video",
		"name": "Jan",
		"creationName": "I plan to update 15-30 videos every month.",
		"growth": 1327,
		"url": "https://www.patreon.com/Jan",
		"avatarUrl": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/campaign/13023587/2128eb75dd654b6ca71a9b3c535ab860/eyJ3IjoyMDB9/1.jpg?token-time=2145916800&token-hash=4PEiza-rv8ODRze941APIBjcUqTwBWRh76S3xOGzsec%3D",
		"isAdult": false,
		"scrapedAt": "2024-12-12T05:51:01.953Z"
	},
    ...
]
```

# Actor input Schema

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Select your proxy configuration

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("easyapi/patreon-hot-creators-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("easyapi/patreon-hot-creators-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 '{}' |
apify call easyapi/patreon-hot-creators-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,easyapi/patreon-hot-creators-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/kDkx8PJkZWIXvZQGQ/builds/WoLksGowjVweCZ04O/openapi.json