Crowdfunding market and trend research
Use Kickstarter endpoints to turn crowdfunding market and trend research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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.
Endpoint families
4
Documented params
16
Examples
4
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
4
Methods
GET
Required params
10
Schema refs
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.
Use Kickstarter endpoints to turn crowdfunding market and trend research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Kickstarter endpoints to turn campaign funding and backer monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Kickstarter endpoints to turn creator update and comment tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Crawlora's Kickstarter API is designed around Kickstarter's own data surface, not a generic fetch endpoint — combining endpoint-specific request logic, managed infrastructure, parsing, normalization, billing, and Playground-tested examples.
Request behavior for Kickstarter endpoints is tuned to the platform's own response shapes and edge cases.
Supported Kickstarter endpoints can use managed proxy routing to improve reliability and reduce infrastructure work.
Dynamic Kickstarter pages can be routed through managed browser instances where JavaScript rendering is required.
Challenge pages and unusable Kickstarter responses are detected and surfaced clearly, not silently returned as empty data.
Kickstarter results are returned as documented JSON instead of raw HTML.
Test the same Kickstarter route from Docs and Playground before production integration.
Coverage map
These cards are generated from the active endpoint catalog, so the landing page reflects the same API surface used by Docs and Playground.
/kickstarter/comments
/kickstarter/discover
/kickstarter/project
/kickstarter/updates
Endpoint catalog
/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.
Response notes
- 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. - Kickstarter's own `/projects/*/widget/`, `/projects/*/pledge/`, `/projects/*/backers`, `/profile/`, `/signup`, and `/v1/` paths are disallowed by `robots.txt` and are never fetched by this endpoint. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "page": 1, "total_hits": 1, "projects": [ { "id": 1114436418, "name": "musubi: the first consumer holographic frame", "slug": "musubi", "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/musubi", "blurb": "Turn any photo into a hologram.", "state": "successful", "country": "US", "currency": "USD", "currency_symbol": "$", "goal": 50000, "pledged": 423762.5, "percent_funded": 847, "backers_count": 3009, "staff_pick": true, "spotlight": true, "category": { "id": 16, "name": "Technology", "slug": "technology", "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/technology" }, "location": { "name": "Los Angeles", "displayable_name": "Los Angeles, CA", "short_name": "Los Angeles, CA", "country": "US" }, "creator": { "id": 42, "name": "Looking Glass", "avatar": "https://example.com/avatar-medium.jpg" }, "photo": { "full": "https://example.com/photo-full.jpg" }, "created_at": "2023-11-14T22:13:20Z", "launched_at": "2023-11-26T13:33:20Z", "deadline": "2023-12-30T09:20:00Z" } ] } } ```
/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.
Response notes
Notable response behavior: - `story` and `risks_and_challenges` are the campaign's own text, server-rendered 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` is sourced from kickstarter.com's own GraphQL response for the campaign's `/rewards` sub-page (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. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "id": 1114436418, "name": "musubi: the first consumer holographic frame", "slug": "musubi", "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/musubi", "blurb": "Turn any photo into a hologram.", "state": "successful", "goal": 50000, "pledged": 423762.5, "percent_funded": 847, "backers_count": 3009, "category": { "name": "Technology", "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/technology" }, "creator": { "name": "Looking Glass", "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/lookingglass" }, "story": "Turn any photo or video into a hologram. No subscription required.", "risks_and_challenges": "The largest risk is manufacturing scale.", "updates_count": 12, "comments_count": 34, "faq_count": 8, "has_video": true, "reward_tiers": [ { "id": "UmV3YXJkLTExMDQ1MDc4", "name": "LAUNCH DAY SPECIAL", "description": "Save $50 off MSRP. Shipping charged separately after campaign ends.", "amount": 99, "currency": "USD", "backers_count": 998, "estimated_delivery_on": "2026-06-01", "shipping_enabled": true, "shipping_preference": "unrestricted", "shipping_summary": "Anywhere in the world", "items": [{ "name": "musubi holographic photo and video frame", "quantity": 1 }] } ] } } ```
/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.
Response notes
- `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. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "updates": [ { "number": 7, "title": "We're running slightly behind on our address collection surveys.", "body": "Hey everyone -- surveys are taking a little longer than expected...", "author_name": "Looking Glass", "is_creator": true, "published_at": "July 10, 2026", "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/musubi/posts/4740868", "comments_count": 30 } ] } } ```
/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.
Response notes
- `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. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "total_count": 431, "comments": [ { "author_name": "William Grose", "is_creator": false, "body": "Just received my display and am super disappointed.", "posted_at": "2026-08-20T05:47:42Z" }, { "author_name": "Looking Glass", "is_creator": true, "body": "Sorry to hear! Can you send us a photo?", "posted_at": "2026-08-20T06:34:39Z" } ] } } ```
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How to scrape 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.