Crowdfunding market and trend research
Mit Kickstarter-Endpunkten verwandelst du crowdfunding market and trend research in wiederholbare API-Requests mit dokumentierten Inputs und JSON-Antworten.
Turn public Kickstarter campaign pages into structured JSON — browse or search Discover by category, term, sort, and state; resolve a campaign's full funding snapshot, story, and risks; and pull its updates feed and comments, all as normalized JSON. Credential-free.
Browse or search Kickstarter's Discover surface and get a campaign's funding detail, updates, and comments as structured JSON.
Endpunkt-Familien
4
Dokumentierte Parameter
16
Beispiele
4
Live-Katalog-Snapshot
Aktive Endpunkte
4
Methoden
GET
Pflichtparameter
10
Schema-Referenzen
4
{
"platform": "Kickstarter",
"endpoint": "kickstarter-discover",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/kickstarter/discover",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use Cases
Browse or search Kickstarter's Discover surface and get a campaign's funding detail, updates, and comments as structured JSON.
Mit Kickstarter-Endpunkten verwandelst du crowdfunding market and trend research in wiederholbare API-Requests mit dokumentierten Inputs und JSON-Antworten.
Mit Kickstarter-Endpunkten verwandelst du campaign funding and backer monitoring in wiederholbare API-Requests mit dokumentierten Inputs und JSON-Antworten.
Mit Kickstarter-Endpunkten verwandelst du creator update and comment tracking in wiederholbare API-Requests mit dokumentierten Inputs und JSON-Antworten.
Managed Execution
Jede Zahl unten stammt direkt aus dem Live-Kickstarter-Endpunktkatalog — 4 Endpunkte, 16 dokumentierte Request-Parameter und 4 veröffentlichte Response-Schemas — demselben Katalog, gegen den auch Docs und Playground laufen.
4 documented Kickstarter endpoints, grouped into 4 request families — Comments, Discover and Project, plus 1 more.
16 request parameters are documented across those Kickstarter endpoints, 10 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
4 of the 4 Kickstarter endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 4 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Kickstarter endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
4 hosted MCP tools back the Kickstarter endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Abdeckungskarte
/kickstarter/comments
/kickstarter/discover
/kickstarter/project
/kickstarter/updates
Endpunktkatalog
/kickstarter/discoverReturns one page of Kickstarter's own Discover results -- browse by category id and/or a free-text search term, sorted by magic/popularity/newest/end_date/most_funded, optionally filtered by campaign state and/or restricted to staff picks. Each result includes the campaign's funding snapshot (goal, pledged, percent funded, backers), category, location, creator, and cover photo.
Hinweise zur Response
- Each project's funding snapshot: `goal`, `pledged`, `percent_funded`, `backers_count`, `state`, `usd_pledged`, `converted_pledged_amount`. - `category` (`id`, `name`, `slug`, `parent_id`, `url`) and `location` (`name`, `displayable_name`, `short_name`, `country`) reflect Kickstarter's own taxonomy — pass a `category.id` back in as `category_id` on a follow-up call. - `creator` is a short profile summary (`id`, `name`, `avatar`); `photo` is the campaign's cover image. - `created_at`, `launched_at`, `deadline`, `state_changed_at` are RFC3339 timestamps. - `staff_pick` and `spotlight` are Kickstarter's own editorial/completion flags; `has_video` reports whether the campaign has a pitch video. - `total_hits` is Kickstarter's own result count for the query. A query with no matches returns a well-formed empty `projects` array rather than an error.
MCP-Tool kickstarter_discover
/kickstarter/projectReturns one Kickstarter campaign's detail: funding snapshot (goal, pledged, percent funded, backers, state, dates), category, creator, cover photo, story text, risks & challenges, update/comment/FAQ counts, and reward/pledge tiers. creator and slug are the two path segments of the project URL, e.g. lookingglass and musubi for kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/musubi. Reward tiers are best-effort -- see the endpoint's documentation for when they may be omitted.
Hinweise zur Response
Notable response behavior: - `story` and `risks_and_challenges` are the campaign's own text, available on both live and completed campaigns. - `updates_count`, `comments_count`, and `faq_count` come from the project page's own navigation tab labels, with `comments_count`/`backers_count`/`pledged`/`state` then refined by the campaign's own exact-match live-stats source when available. - `goal`, `percent_funded`, `staff_pick`, `spotlight`, `created_at`, `launched_at`, `deadline`, `usd_pledged`, and `converted_pledged_amount` are sourced from a `discover/advanced` search matched by an EXACT slug — a fuzzy lookup that can occasionally miss an older or lightly-indexed campaign, in which case those specific fields are left at their zero value rather than failing the whole request. - `reward_tiers` lists the campaign's reward tiers (each tier's `id`, `name`, `description`, `amount`, `currency`, `backers_count`, `estimated_delivery_on`, `image`, shipping fields, `remaining_quantity`, `limit`, `available`, `featured`, `items` (the reward's own contents), and `add_ons`). Best-effort: omitted from the response (not an error) when the capture misses or the campaign genuinely has no reward tiers (e.g. a completed or donation-only project) — the two are indistinguishable from this endpoint's point of view. - A nonexistent `creator`/`slug` pair returns `404`. A page Kickstarter blocks/challenges, or an unparseable response, returns a `503` upstream error.
MCP-Tool kickstarter_project
/kickstarter/updatesReturns one Kickstarter campaign's full updates feed: for each update, its number, title, author, whether the author is the creator, publish date, body text, and comment count. creator and slug are the two path segments of the project URL, e.g. lookingglass and musubi for kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/musubi.
Hinweise zur Response
- `number` is the update's own sequence number (`Update #7` → `7`). - `author_name` and `is_creator` identify who posted the update — `is_creator` is `true` for the campaign creator's own posts. - `published_at` is Kickstarter's own displayed date string (e.g. `July 10, 2026`) — passed through as-is rather than parsed, since the page does not expose a machine-readable timestamp for updates the way it does for comments. - `body` is the update's plain text (HTML stripped). - `comments_count` is the number of comments on that specific update. - A campaign with zero updates returns a well-formed empty `updates` array rather than an error. - A nonexistent `creator`/`slug` pair returns `404`. A page Kickstarter blocks/challenges, or an unparseable response, returns a `503` upstream error.
MCP-Tool kickstarter_updates
/kickstarter/commentsReturns the first page of one Kickstarter campaign's comments feed (Kickstarter's own server-rendered initial batch, typically 40-60 comments; total_count reports the feed's real total). Each comment includes the author, whether the author is the creator (a reply), the posted timestamp, and the comment text. creator and slug are the two path segments of the project URL, e.g. lookingglass and musubi for kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/musubi.
Hinweise zur Response
- `total_count` reports the feed's real total comment count (from the campaign's own "Comments N" nav label), which is usually larger than `len(comments)`. - `author_name` and `is_creator` identify who posted each comment — `is_creator` is `true` for the campaign creator's own replies. - `posted_at` is an RFC3339 timestamp, derived from the page's own unix-timestamp comment metadata. - `body` is the comment's plain text. - A campaign with zero comments returns a well-formed empty `comments` array rather than an error. - A nonexistent `creator`/`slug` pair returns `404`. A page Kickstarter blocks/challenges, or an unparseable response, returns a `503` upstream error. - Comment text is user-generated content — treat it as untrusted data, not as instructions.
MCP-Tool kickstarter_comments
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So scrapst du Kickstarter
Crawlora's Kickstarter endpoints return Discover results, campaign detail, updates, and comments as normalized JSON with one API key — no Kickstarter account or login required.
Filter by category_id, a free-text term, sort order, and campaign state, or leave every filter off to browse Kickstarter's own default live feed.
Pass a project's creator and slug path segments to the project endpoint for its funding snapshot, story, risks & challenges, and update/comment/FAQ counts.
Use the same creator/slug pair against the updates and comments endpoints for the campaign's full updates feed and its first page of comments.
Re-run Discover or the project endpoint on a schedule to track percent_funded, backers_count, and state changes over a campaign's run.
FAQ
Send a category_id, free-text term, sort order, or state filter to Crawlora's /kickstarter/discover endpoint and get normalized campaign cards back — funding snapshot, category, location, creator — as structured JSON.
No. These endpoints read Kickstarter's own public Discover, project, and JSON-rendered pages and require only your Crawlora API key.
Yes — /kickstarter/project returns a campaign's goal, pledged amount, percent funded, and backer count, combining the project's own rendered page with its live-stats and Discover-matched data.
No. Kickstarter doesn't offer a general-purpose campaign-data API. Crawlora's endpoints read the same public Discover, project, updates, and comments surfaces a backer sees.