Kickstarter Scraper API

The official Kickstarter API was deprecated years ago, and the market research demand never went away. Our scraper API collects campaign data from public discovery and project pages – funding totals, backer counts, pledge tiers, deadlines – at whatever cadence your analysis needs.

* This scraper is now a part of the Web Scraping API.

125M+

IPs worldwide

99.99%

success rate

200

requests per second

100+

ready-made templates

Free

starter plan

Be ahead of the Kickstarter scraping game

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What is Kickstarter scraper API?

Kickstarter scraper API reads public campaign and discovery pages and returns them as structured records:

  • Funding goal, amount pledged, and percent funded
  • Backer counts and pledge tier structures
  • Category, subcategory, and creator location
  • Launch date, deadline, and time remaining

Since funding is a curve, not a number, the interesting datasets are longitudinal – the same campaigns sampled daily, turning static pages into funding-velocity series. Product teams mine those curves for demand signals, and investors use category-level aggregates as an early-trend index – workflows the retired Kickstarter API once fed. Company-level context from the Crunchbase scraper API rounds out the same research stack.

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Collect Kickstarter data

Campaign tracking is a scheduling problem wearing a scraping costume. The Web Scraping API accepts discovery or project URLs and returns rendered, parsed results, so the real design work is choosing your sampling interval – daily for velocity curves, hourly around campaign deadlines when pledge behavior spikes. Rendering captures the client-side funding widgets, and scheduled runs keep the series unbroken without a cron server on your side.

Built-in scraper

JavaScript rendering

Easy API integration

195+ geo-locations, including country-, state-, and city-level targeting

No CAPTCHAs or IP blocks

Scrape Kickstarter with Python, Node.js, or cURL

Our Kickstarter Scraper API supports all popular programming languages for smooth integration with your business tools.

import requests
url = "https://scraper-api.decodo.com/v2/scrape"
payload = {
"url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?sort=popularity",
"headless": "html"
}
headers = {
"accept": "application/json",
"content-type": "application/json",
"authorization": "Basic [YOUR_BASE64_ENCODED_CREDENTIALS]"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)

Get more from the Kickstarter scraper API

Scrape Kickstarter using an API that handles JavaScript rendering and proxy integration for you, so you get the data you need without blocks or CAPTCHAs.

100% success rate

A tracked campaign only bills when its page actually returns – failed samples don't dent the series budget.

Advanced anti-bot bypass

Kickstarter's defenses are moderate – rate limits and IP checks – and rotation clears them quietly.

Real-time or on-demand results

Grab one campaign's status mid-livestream, or refresh 10K tracked projects every morning.

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125M+ proxy pool

Campaign pages are globally uniform, but creator-location analysis benefits from region-spread sampling.

JavaScript rendering

Funding bars and backer counts render client-side – JS execution returns them filled in.

Easy integration

Discovery URLs with sort and category parameters slot straight into request templates.

What does Web Scraping API cost?

Choose a plan based on your scraping volume. All plans include the same powerful features – you only pay for what you use. Start with the free plan to test before committing.

Plan price

$0

+VAT / Billed monthly

Request type

Price per 1k req.

Standard proxies

2K req.

$0.50

Standard proxies + JS

1K req.

$0.75

Premium Proxies

1K req.

$1.00

Premium proxies + JS

667 req.

$1.50

Rate limit

10 req/s

Start for free

Plan price

$19

+VAT / Billed monthly

Request type

Price per 1k req.

Standard proxies

38K req.

$0.50

Standard proxies + JS

25K req.

$0.75

Premium Proxies

19K req.

$1.00

Premium proxies + JS

12K req.

$1.50

Rate limit

10 req/s

Buy now

Plan price

$49

+VAT / Billed monthly

Request type

Price per 1k req.

Standard proxies

163K req.

$0.30

Standard proxies + JS

75K req.

$0.65

Premium Proxies

54K req.

$0.90

Premium proxies + JS

39K req.

$1.25

Rate limit

25 req/s

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$99

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Price per 1k req.

Standard proxies

707K req.

$0.14

Standard proxies + JS

165K req.

$0.60

Premium Proxies

116K req.

$0.85

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82K req.

$1.20

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50 req/s

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Test our scraping API

With each plan, you access:

99.99% success rate

Results in HTML, JSON, CSV, XHR or PNG

MCP server

JavaScript rendering

AI integrations

100+ pre-built templates

Supports search, pagination, and filtering

LLM-ready markdown format

24/7 tech support

14-day money-back

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Your information is protected by 256-bit SSL

Why the scraping community chooses Decodo

135K+ developers, SEOs, and data teams rely on Decodo to collect public web data at scale – including from Kickstarter. Whether you're shipping a side project or running production pipelines, our infrastructure is built to keep your Kickstarter scraper running while you focus on what to do with the data.

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100+ ready-made scraping templates

Maintenance overhead

Complex documentation

Data in JSON, CSV, HTML, and Markdown formats

Days to implement

Limited output formats

Why the scraping community chooses Decodo

135K+ developers, SEOs, and data teams rely on Decodo to collect public web data at scale – including from Kickstarter. Ship a side project or run production pipelines – our infrastructure keeps your Kickstarter scraper running while you focus on what to do with the data.

Attentive service

The professional expertise of the Decodo solution has significantly boosted our business growth while enhancing overall efficiency and effectiveness.

Easy to get things done

Decodo provides great service with a simple setup and friendly support team.

A key to our work

Decodo enables us to develop and test applications in varied environments while supporting precise data collection for research and audience profiling.

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Frequently asked questions

Is it legal to scrape Kickstarter?

Not published means not yours to reconstruct. If a platform such as Kickstarter keeps something off its public pages, inferring or assembling it elsewhere isn't a workaround. Stay with what's genuinely visible. Our what counts as public data draws the line.

How does the Kickstarter scraper API bypass blocks and CAPTCHAs?

With commercial bot detection tuned lighter than retail sites, Kickstarter mostly applies rate limiting and IP reputation checks. The scraper spreads sampling across rotating exits – datacenter and ISP types carry most of the load here – with fingerprint consistency and automatic retries covering the occasional challenge page.

What output formats does the Kickstarter scraper API support?

Campaign pages deliver in HTML, or in parsed JSON that isolates the funding fields – what time-series pipelines want. CSV export works for one-off category snapshots. For qualitative work, the AI Parser extracts structured fields from campaign copy and risk sections with a prompt rather than a selector.

Can I geo-target Kickstarter requests to a specific country or city?

Yes, though Kickstarter shows the same campaign globally, so geo-targeting matters less here than on retail targets. Where it earns its keep is availability checking for region-limited rewards and sampling discovery pages as different regions see them. Exits are available in 195+ geo-locations when a test calls for it.

How fast is the Kickstarter scraper API and can it handle large-scale jobs?

Daily refreshes of 10K tracked campaigns fit comfortably in scheduled runs. Requests fan wide within your plan's ceiling, single pages come back in seconds, and deadline-day bursts – when everyone wants hourly resolution – absorb into the same pipeline without special handling.

Can I try the Kickstarter scraper API for free?

The free starter plan covers it – activated card-free, with up to 2K requests included. Sample a category daily for a couple of weeks and you'll have a real velocity dataset before deciding on volume.

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