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Patreon Scraper 🎨 — Creators, Tiers, Patrons & Posts

Extract Patreon creator data as clean, structured JSON — without writing code and without logging in. Discover creators by keyword, or scrape specific creators, and get their full profile: membership tiers and prices, patron counts, "is creating" description, social links, goals — and recent posts.

Fast and reliable: built on Patreon's own data layer, so it returns complete, structured data — no flaky page-rendering, no missing fields.

💡 Two superpowers: (1) Creator discovery — find every creator matching a keyword like "philosophy", "gaming" or "podcast". (2) Lead-gen — every creator ships their social links (Twitter/X, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, …) and patron counts for influencer outreach and market research.

📋 Table of contents

• What does it do?
• Use cases
• How to use it
• Input parameters
• Input examples
• Output — data fields
• Sample output record
• Creator discovery & lead generation
• Tips & best practices
• Frequently asked questions
• Changelog

What does it do?

Patreon hosts millions of creators across video, podcasts, art, music, writing, gaming and more. This actor turns Patreon into a structured dataset you can export to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or pull from the Apify API.

Three ways to scrape:

• 🔎 Discover by keyword — search a topic and scrape every matching creator.
• 🔗 Specific creators — by vanity handle (PhilosophyTube) or full URL.
• 🧾 With posts — optionally pull each creator's recent public posts.

For every creator you get the name, "is creating" description, summary, monthly/per-creation model, currency, patron count, paid-member count, avatar & cover images, pledge URL, social links, goals, and the full list of membership tiers (title, price, benefits, post count, limited-seat info). Optionally, each creator's recent posts (title, type, likes, comments, date, URL).

Use cases

📈 Influencer & creator-economy research

• Map who's creating what, how many patrons they have, and how they price tiers.
• Benchmark tiers and patron counts across a niche.
• Track the growth of creators over time.

📇 Sales & lead generation

• Build lists of creators in a niche with their social profiles for outreach.
• Find sponsorship and partnership targets by category and audience size.
• Feed creator leads into your CRM.

🎯 Marketers & agencies

• Discover creators to sponsor or collaborate with.
• Analyse pricing strategies and membership benefits across competitors.

🤖 Data & AI teams

• Power creator-discovery tools, dashboards and newsletters.
• Build datasets of creators, tiers and posts.

How to use it (step by step)

No coding required.

1. Click Try for free / Start.
2. Choose how to scrape:
   • Creators — add handles like PhilosophyTube or full URLs.
   • Search queries — add keywords like philosophy, gaming, art to discover creators.
3. Optionally enable Include recent posts and set Max posts per creator.
4. Set Max creators.
5. Click Save & Start, then export the results.

Input parameters

Input examples

1) Specific creators

{
"creators":["PhilosophyTube","https://www.patreon.com/kurzgesagt"],
"maxItems":50
}

2) Discover creators by keyword

{
"searchQueries":["philosophy","history podcast"],
"maxItems":200
}

3) Creators + their recent posts

{
"creators":["PhilosophyTube"],
"includePosts":true,
"maxPostsPerCreator":30
}

Output — data fields

Creator records (recordType: "creator"):

Each tier in tiers[]: title, amount, amountCents, currency, description, postCount, remaining, requiresShipping, isFreeTier, discordRoleIds, imageUrl, url.

Post records (recordType: "post", when includePosts is on): campaignId, creatorVanity, postId, title, teaserText, publishedAt, isPublic, postType, likeCount, commentCount, url.

Sample output record

{
"recordType":"creator",
"campaignId":"114875",
"name":"Philosophy Tube",
"vanity":"PhilosophyTube",
"url":"https://www.patreon.com/PhilosophyTube",
"creationName":"Creating Philosophy Videos",
"summary":"Video essays about philosophy, politics and culture.",
"isMonthly":true,
"currency":"USD",
"payPerName":"month",
"patronCount":15557,
"paidMemberCount":5157,
"creationCount":814,
"avatarUrl":"https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/...",
"creator":{"name":"Abigail Thorn","vanity":"PhilosophyTube","url":"https://www.patreon.com/PhilosophyTube"},
"socials":{"twitter":"PhilosophyTube","youtube":"https://youtube.com/..."},
"tiers":[
{"title":"Supporter","amount":2,"amountCents":200,"currency":"USD","description":"Early access + Discord","postCount":120},
{"title":"Patron","amount":5,"amountCents":500,"currency":"USD","description":"All rewards + name in credits"}
],
"tierCount":2,
"scrapedAt":"2026-06-04T16:00:00.000Z"
}

Creator discovery & lead generation

Combine search queries with the rich creator output to build targeted lists — e.g. "every philosophy creator with 1,000+ patrons and their Twitter/YouTube". Each creator ships patron/paid-member counts, tier pricing, and social links, which is exactly what influencer-marketing, sponsorship and market-research workflows need.

Tips & best practices

• 🔎 Use search queries to discover creators you don't already know; use Creators for specific handles.
• 🧪 Start with maxItems: 25 to confirm your inputs.
• ⚡ Leave includePosts off for fast creator discovery; turn it on when you need post-level engagement data.
• 🧱 Use several search queries to widen coverage across a niche.
• 💾 Use the Apify API / integrations to push results into Google Sheets, a database, or a webhook, and schedule runs to track creators over time.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to log in or provide cookies? No. This actor scrapes public creator data without any login.

Can I find creators by topic? Yes — add keywords to Search queries and the actor discovers and scrapes matching creators.

Are patron counts included? Yes, when the creator makes them public (patronCount / paidMemberCount).

Can I get tier prices and benefits? Yes — every creator record includes the full tiers array.

Can I scrape posts? Enable Include recent posts to get each creator's recent public posts. Patron-only content is not accessible.

What export formats are supported? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML table, RSS — plus the Apify API and integrations.

Changelog

0.1.0

• Initial release: creator scraping by handle/URL, keyword discovery, and optional recent posts.
• Full profile output: tiers, patron counts, socials, goals, images.
• Fast, no-login, cursor-paginated.