Kickstarter Projects & Funding Scraper

Here is one real result, with every field the actor returns:

{
  "id": 1247101722,
  "name": "Harbor of Blight: Obsidian, A Board Game and RPG Hybrid",
  "blurb": "A solo or 2 player cooperative campaign board game, combining combat, exploration, social encounters, and RPG character progression.",
  "creatorName": "Cardboard King Games",
  "creatorId": 1940660538,
  "category": "Games",
  "subcategory": "Tabletop Games",
  "goal": 25000,
  "pledged": 14545,
  "usdPledged": 14545,
  "percentFunded": 58.18,
  "backersCount": 108,
  "currency": "USD",
  "currencySymbol": "$",
  "country": "US",
  "countryName": "the United States",
  "locationName": "Signal Mountain, TN",
  "state": "live",
  "staffPick": true,
  "spotlight": false,
  "launchedAt": "2026-07-28T14:01:00.000Z",
  "deadline": "2026-08-28T04:00:00.000Z",
  "createdAt": "2024-04-16T19:42:15.000Z",
  "slug": "harbor-of-blight",
  "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardboardkinggames/harbor-of-blight",
  "imageUrl": "https://i.kickstarter.com/assets/054/587/791/aea7b663c8e0196de3d8a2998903c9cd_original.png",
  "source": "Kickstarter",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-14T08:26:03.272Z",
  "error": null,
  "aiSummary": "Harbor of Blight: Obsidian is a solo or 2 player cooperative campaign board game that blends combat, exploration, social encounters, and RPG character progression. The project is currently live with $14,545 pledged of a $25,000 goal, making it 58.18% funded with 108 backers.",
  "aiTags": {
    "productType": "Board Game and RPG Hybrid",
    "themeTags": ["cooperative gameplay", "solo play", "campaign", "combat", "exploration"],
    "targetAudience": "board game enthusiasts, RPG players"
  }
}

Note: imageUrl is a real value, shortened here by dropping the long signed query string; the actor returns the full URL. themeTags is trimmed from 7 real tags to 5 for display.

The most complete Kickstarter projects scraper available. It returns every field the Kickstarter discovery feed exposes for each project, plus normalized funding fields and optional AI enrichment, and gives you nine filters to target exactly the projects you need.

📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples

Table of contents

• What it does
• Quickstart
• Input reference
• Output reference
• Example output record
• Run via API and CLI
• Fetch results
• Billing and limits
• FAQ and troubleshooting

What it does

The actor reads Kickstarter's project discovery feed, applies the filters you pass as input, paginates through matching projects, and writes one normalized record per project to the run's dataset. In browse mode it walks the discovery feed with search, state, category, country and sort filters; in lookup mode it fetches specific projects by URL. Funding is normalized (goal, pledged, usdPledged, percentFunded), timestamps are returned as ISO 8601, and missing source values are returned as null.

Two optional AI add-ons (paid Apify plans only, off by default) enrich each record: aiSummary writes a plain-English overview, and aiTags derives product type, theme tags and target audience from the project blurb. Each is billed per record only when it produces usable output.

Quickstart

Open the actor, paste this into the input, and press Run. It returns 3 live board game projects with both AI add-ons on.

{
  "mode": "browse",
  "searchTerm": "board game",
  "state": "live",
  "sort": "magic",
  "maxProjects": 3,
  "withAiSummary": true,
  "withAiCategorize": true
}

Every input field is optional. With an empty input the actor browses live projects ordered by Kickstarter's magic ranking (default maxProjects prefill is 40). The AI add-ons stay off unless you turn them on and are ignored on free plans.

Input reference

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
mode	enum	no	browse	browse walks the discovery feed with filters; lookup fetches specific projects from projectUrls.
searchTerm	string	no	(empty)	Keyword to search projects for, for example board game, enamel pin.
state	enum	no	live	Project state: all, live, successful, failed, canceled, upcoming.
sort	enum	no	magic	Order: magic, popularity, newest, end_date (ending soon), most_funded, most_backed.
categoryId	string	no	(any)	Restrict to one Kickstarter category by numeric ID, for example 12 = Games, 3 = Comics, 16 = Technology.
staffPicksOnly	boolean	no	false	Only return projects featured as Kickstarter staff picks.
country	string	no	(any)	Keep only projects from this 2-letter country code, for example US, GB, DE.
minPledged	number	no	(none)	Only keep projects that have raised at least this amount in USD.
minBackers	integer	no	(none)	Only keep projects with at least this many backers.
projectUrls	string[]	no	(empty)	In lookup mode, the Kickstarter project URLs to fetch.
maxProjects	integer	no	40	Maximum project records to collect across the whole run.
withAiSummary	boolean	no	false	Paid plans only. Writes a plain-English overview per project. Billed only when a summary is produced.
withAiCategorize	boolean	no	false	Paid plans only. Derives product type, theme tags and target audience from the blurb. Billed only when tags are produced.

Filters combine with logical AND.

Output reference

One dataset item per project. Types: string, integer, number, boolean, object, or null when the source value is absent.

Field	Type	Description
id	integer	Kickstarter project ID.
name	string	Project name.
blurb	string	Short project description.
creatorName	string	Creator name.
creatorId	integer	Creator ID.
category	string	Top-level category.
subcategory	string	Subcategory.
goal	number	Funding goal in the project currency.
pledged	number	Amount pledged in the project currency.
usdPledged	number	Amount pledged in USD.
percentFunded	number	Percent of goal funded.
backersCount	integer	Number of backers.
currency	string	Project currency code.
currencySymbol	string	Currency symbol.
country	string	2-letter country code.
countryName	string	Country name.
locationName	string	Creator location.
state	string	Project state: live, successful, failed, canceled, upcoming.
staffPick	boolean	Featured as a staff pick.
spotlight	boolean	Shown in spotlight.
launchedAt	string	Launch timestamp (ISO 8601), or null.
deadline	string	Funding deadline timestamp (ISO 8601), or null.
createdAt	string	Created timestamp (ISO 8601), or null.
slug	string	Project slug.
url	string	Project URL.
imageUrl	string	Project image URL.
source	string	Data source. Always Kickstarter.
observedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was collected.
aiSummary	string	AI English project overview. null unless the AI add-on is on.
aiTags	object	AI product type, theme tags and target audience. null unless the AI add-on is on.
error	string	null on success. On a failed run, a single item with a populated error field is written instead.

Example output record

Real record from a live run (input {"searchTerm":"board game","state":"live","maxProjects":3,"withAiSummary":true,"withAiCategorize":true}):

{
  "id": 1247101722,
  "name": "Harbor of Blight: Obsidian, A Board Game and RPG Hybrid",
  "blurb": "A solo or 2 player cooperative campaign board game, combining combat, exploration, social encounters, and RPG character progression.",
  "creatorName": "Cardboard King Games",
  "creatorId": 1940660538,
  "category": "Games",
  "subcategory": "Tabletop Games",
  "goal": 25000,
  "pledged": 14545,
  "usdPledged": 14545,
  "percentFunded": 58.18,
  "backersCount": 108,
  "currency": "USD",
  "currencySymbol": "$",
  "country": "US",
  "countryName": "the United States",
  "locationName": "Signal Mountain, TN",
  "state": "live",
  "staffPick": true,
  "spotlight": false,
  "launchedAt": "2026-07-28T14:01:00.000Z",
  "deadline": "2026-08-28T04:00:00.000Z",
  "createdAt": "2024-04-16T19:42:15.000Z",
  "slug": "harbor-of-blight",
  "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardboardkinggames/harbor-of-blight",
  "source": "Kickstarter",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-14T08:26:03.272Z",
  "error": null,
  "aiSummary": "Harbor of Blight: Obsidian is a solo or 2 player cooperative campaign board game that blends combat, exploration, social encounters, and RPG character progression. The project is currently live with $14,545 pledged of a $25,000 goal, making it 58.18% funded with 108 backers.",
  "aiTags": {
    "productType": "Board Game and RPG Hybrid",
    "themeTags": ["cooperative gameplay", "solo play", "campaign", "combat", "exploration", "social encounters", "character progression"],
    "targetAudience": "board game enthusiasts, RPG players"
  }
}

Run via API and CLI

Start a run and wait for it to finish, then read the dataset. Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

Run synchronously and get dataset items in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~kickstarter-projects-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchTerm":"board game","state":"live","sort":"most_backed","maxProjects":25}'

Start a run asynchronously:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~kickstarter-projects-scraper/runs?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"state":"successful","categoryId":"12","minBackers":500,"maxProjects":100}'

Apify CLI:

apify call scrapers_lat/kickstarter-projects-scraper \
  --input '{"mode":"lookup","projectUrls":["https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardboardkinggames/harbor-of-blight"]}'

Fetch results

Every run writes to a dataset. Fetch items as JSON, CSV, or Excel by changing format:

# JSON
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=json"

# CSV
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=csv"

# Paginate large datasets
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&offset=1000&limit=1000"

<DATASET_ID> is returned as defaultDatasetId in the run object. Use offset and limit to page through large result sets. clean=true drops empty and internal fields.

Billing and limits

• Pay per result. You are charged per project record returned (result event). See the pricing tab for the current per-result price.
• AI add-ons billed separately. withAiSummary and withAiCategorize are charged per record only when they produce usable output, and only on paid plans.
• No charge on failure. If a run errors, the actor writes a single item with a populated error field and does not charge for it. Empty runs cost nothing.
• Spend cap respected. Set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run; once reached, the actor stops emitting and charging further billable results.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 10 records per run, and AI add-ons are ignored. Upgrade for higher maxProjects and AI enrichment.

FAQ and troubleshooting

A run returned 0 records. Why? The filter combination matched nothing. Loosen filters (widen state to all, remove minPledged or minBackers, or broaden the search term). Zero-result runs are not charged.

How do I look up a specific project? Set mode to lookup and pass the project URLs in projectUrls.

Why are aiSummary and aiTags null? The AI add-ons are off by default and ignored on free plans. Turn on withAiSummary and withAiCategorize on a paid plan to populate them.

What does usdPledged mean versus pledged? pledged is in the project's own currency; usdPledged is the same amount converted to USD for cross-project comparison.

Can I filter by category? Yes. Pass the numeric categoryId, for example 12 for Games or 16 for Technology.

Is this an official Kickstarter tool? No. This actor is independent and has no affiliation with Kickstarter. It reads only data that is publicly available on Kickstarter. Use it in accordance with Kickstarter's terms of service.

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Independent tool, not affiliated with Kickstarter. Accesses only publicly available Kickstarter data. Use in accordance with Kickstarter's terms of service.