Is the story text included?

Yes, story and risks come back as text.

How do I search projects?

Use Kickstarter project search with a keyword and filters.

Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

What does a request cost?

5 points per successful run, which is $5 per 1,000, and only runs that return data are charged. Points come out of your monthly plan allowance.

Startup & Funding Data

Kickstarter Project API and MCP — goal, pledged, backers, story and risks

Send a project in creator/project form, such as elanlee/exploding-kittens, or its Kickstarter link. You get one record with goal, pledged amount, backers, state, key dates, creator, category, location, the story and risks text, and counts of rewards, add-ons, updates, comments and FAQ entries.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: a creator/project path or Kickstarter URL
You get back: One Kickstarter project: goal, pledged, backers, state, dates, creator, category, location, story, risks and counts of rewards, updates, comments and FAQ.
Coverage: Kickstarter records with a public page.
Price: 5 pts — $5 per 1,000; Charged only when the record resolves. A request that finds nothing is not billed.

Comparison

Ways to get this data

Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.

Approach	What it takes	Cost	Trade-off
Kickstarter directly	Open the page on Kickstarter and read it	Free, and slow	Fine for one record, useless across a list, and the layout differs on every platform
Building a scraper	Write it, host it, and repair it when Kickstarter changes its pages	Engineering time	A maintenance commitment for something that isn't your product
NeuralVerge	One request, the same shape as every other source in the catalog	$5 per 1,000, misses not billed	Returns what Kickstarter publishes at request time. Other platforms are separate sources with the same request format

Response

What you get back

Every field in the example response below.

Field	Type	Description
`project.id`	string	Creator/project path, used as the id.
`project.name`	string	Project name.
`project.url`	string	Project link.
`project.project_id`	number	Numeric project id.
`project.alias`	string	Project slug.
`project.description`	string	Project blurb.
`project.project_url`	string	Project link.
`project.image`	string	Project image link.
`project.video_url`	string	Project video link.
`project.state`	string	Project state, such as live or successful.
`project.goal`	number	Funding goal in the project's currency.
`project.pledged`	number	Amount pledged in the project's currency.
`project.usd_pledged`	number	Amount pledged converted to USD.
`project.converted_pledged_amount`	number	Pledged amount in the current currency, as a whole number.
`project.percent_funded`	number	Percent of the goal reached.
`project.backer_count`	number	Number of backers.
`project.currency`	string	Currency code of goal and pledged.
`project.currency_symbol`	string	Currency symbol.
`project.current_currency`	string	Currency used for the converted amounts.
`project.static_usd_rate`	number	Static USD exchange rate.
`project.fx_rate`	number	Exchange rate to the current currency.
`project.usd_exchange_rate`	number	Exchange rate to USD.
`project.country`	string	Country code of the project.
`project.country_displayable_name`	string	Country name.
`project.created_at`	string	When the project was created.
`project.launched_at`	string	Launch time.
`project.deadline`	string	Funding deadline.
`project.state_changed_at`	string	When the state last changed.
`project.updated_at`	string or null	Last update time.
`project.successful_at`	string or null	When the project succeeded. Null if it has not.
`project.is_staff_pick`	boolean	Whether the project is a staff pick (Projects We Love).
`project.is_starrable`	boolean	Whether it can be saved.
`project.is_launched`	boolean	Whether it has launched.
`project.is_prelaunch_activated`	boolean	Whether a prelaunch page was activated.
`project.is_in_post_campaign_pledging_phase`	boolean	Whether late pledges are open.
`project.is_spotlight`	boolean	Whether the project has a spotlight page.
`project.disable_communication`	boolean	Whether the creator disabled communication.
`project.creator`	object	Creator id, name, alias, image and profile_url.
`project.category`	object	Category id, name, alias, parent_id and parent_name.
`project.location`	object	Location id, name, displayable_name, country, state, location_type and alias.
`project.tags[]`	array	Project tags, as plain strings.
`project.comment_count`	number	Number of comments.
`project.update_count`	number	Number of updates.
`project.faq_count`	number	Number of FAQ entries.
`project.has_community`	boolean	Whether the project has a community tab.
`project.reward_count`	number	Number of rewards.
`project.add_on_count`	number	Number of add-ons.
`project.story`	string	Project story text.
`project.risks`	string	Risks and challenges text.
`blocked`	boolean	True if the platform refused the request; false when data came back.
`pages_opened`	number	How many pages were read for this record.
`proxy_traffic_bytes`	number	Data transferred for the request, in bytes. Informational.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "kickstarter_projects",
  "project": "elanlee/exploding-kittens",
  "project_id": "elanlee/exploding-kittens",
  "human": "# Kickstarter — project\n\n- **Id:** elanlee/exploding-kittens\n- **Pages opened:** 1\n- **Proxy traffic:** 911.7 KB\n- **State:** successful\n- **Pledged (USD):** 8782571.99\n- **Goal:** 10000\n- **Backers:** 219382\n- **Deadline:** 2015-02-20T02:00:00.000Z",
  "machine": {
    "project": {
      "id": "elanlee/exploding-kittens",
      "name": "Exploding Kittens",
      "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elanlee/exploding-kittens",
      "project_id": 1955357092,
      "alias": "exploding-kittens",
      "description": "This is a card game for people who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats.",
      "project_url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elanlee/exploding-kittens",
      "image": "https://i.kickstarter.com/assets/011/974/193/b779588b1040e4dff51197e48cedb997_original.png?anim=false&fit=cover&gravity=auto&height=315&origin=ugc&q=92&v=1463720610&width=560&sig=VPKCmK27sQwbU7syvvytI",
      "video_url": "https://v2.kickstarter.com/1791525855-x2RcSPHyeAT8zIrIR5UbRGnmMqXGGqT9Rj6kdBs7hxo%3D/projects/1542071/video-483934-h264_high.mp4",
      "state": "successful",
      "goal": 10000,
      "pledged": 8782571.99,
      "usd_pledged": 8782571.99,
      "converted_pledged_amount": 8782571,
      "percent_funded": 87825.72,
      "backer_count": 219382,
      "currency": "USD",
      "currency_symbol": "$",
      "current_currency": "USD",
      "static_usd_rate": 1,
      "fx_rate": 1,
      "usd_exchange_rate": 1,
      "country": "US",
      "country_displayable_name": "the United States",
      "created_at": "2014-12-15T08:39:54.000Z",
      "launched_at": "2015-01-20T18:00:19.000Z",
      "deadline": "2015-02-20T02:00:00.000Z",
      "state_changed_at": "2015-02-20T02:01:19.000Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-09-03T05:10:53.000Z",
      "successful_at": "2015-02-20T02:01:19.000Z",
      "is_staff_pick": true,
      "is_starrable": false,
      "is_launched": true,
      "is_prelaunch_activated": false,
      "is_in_post_campaign_pledging_phase": false,
      "is_spotlight": true,
      "disable_communication": false,
      "creator": {
        "id": 1281334714,
        "name": "Exploding Kittens",
        "alias": "elanlee",
        "image": "https://i.kickstarter.com/assets/005/833/873/e8f3c96bfb0981997077d6803c9031fa_original.jpg?anim=false&fit=cover&height=160&origin=ugc&q=92&v=1549999651&width=160&sig=MMe6dH763tH8CRbJ7ZwhQ%2BtwCosXaDzj",
        "profile_url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/elanlee"
      },
      "category": {
        "id": 34,
        "name": "Tabletop Games",
        "alias": "games/tabletop games",
        "parent_id": 12,
        "parent_name": "Games"
      },
      "location": {
        "id": 2442047,
        "name": "Los Angeles",
        "displayable_name": "Los Angeles, CA",
        "country": "US",
        "state": "CA",
        "location_type": "Town",
        "alias": "los-angeles-ca"
      },
      "tags": [
        "Cats"
      ],
      "comment_count": 127616,
      "update_count": 45,
      "faq_count": 19,
      "has_community": true,
      "reward_count": 4,
      "add_on_count": 0,
      "story": "Exploding Kittens is a highly strategic kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players take turns drawing cards until someone draws an exploding kitten and loses the game. The deck is made up of c",
      "risks": "Production of the game is simple: it's just a card game, so other than building the box it's a relatively straightforward product to make. The biggest challenge for us would actually be if you blow us"
    },
    "blocked": false,
    "pages_opened": 1,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 933552
  },
  "total_points": 5
}

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

One record per request. Results come back in the same envelope as every other source: a session id, a readable summary, the structured result and the points charged.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-kickstarter-projects \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"project":"elanlee/exploding-kittens"}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Crowdfunding due diligence

Check state, dates, pledged versus goal, and the creator's own risks text.

Outcome tracking

Record state and successful_at for projects you follow.

Category and location research

Use category and location fields to place a project in its market.

Comparing funding results

Line up goal, pledged and backer_count across projects.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

Kickstarter records with a public page.

Freshness

Read at request time, so the answer reflects the platform as it stands when you ask.

Handling

This source returns information Kickstarter shows publicly. Every response carries the session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—Individual rewards, updates and comments are returned as counts only, not as lists.
—Pledged amounts are in the project's own currency; usd_pledged and converted_pledged_amount are conversions at request time.
—The creator block carries a name and profile link. Use it as project attribution only.

FAQ

Questions, answered

The creator and project slug joined by a slash, as in elanlee/exploding-kittens, or the full project link.

Related sources

Kickstarter project search

Find projects by keyword, category and state.

Indiegogo campaign

The Indiegogo equivalent for one campaign.

All startup & funding data

Startup directories, funding databases, launch platforms and investor data.

Try kickstarter project on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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