KSInsights

📊 A weekly-updated dataset of Kickstarter projects in the Technology and Design categories (live & upcoming).
🛠️ Built for creators, product developers, and researchers who want to track crowdfunding trends and discover market opportunities.

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🔍 What is KSInsights?

KSInsights is an open-source project that automatically collects and publishes data from Kickstarter's Technology and Design categories. It focuses on live and upcoming projects, updated weekly.

Whether you're launching your first crowdfunding campaign or researching product ideas, this dataset gives you timely insights into what's trending, who's launching, and what people are backing.

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📁 What's in the Dataset?

Each weekly dataset contains:

• collected_at
• backers_count
• blurb
• category_id
• category_name
• category_parent_id
• category_parent_name
• category_url
• converted_pledged_amount
• country
• created_at
• creator_id
• creator_name
• creator_url
• currency
• deadline
• fx_rate
• goal
• id
• launched_at
• location_country
• location_id
• location_name
• location_state
• location_type
• name
• percent_funded
• pledged
• profile_blurb
• profile_id
• profile_name
• profile_project_id
• profile_state
• profile_state_changed_at
• project_url
• spotlight
• staff_pick
• state
• state_changed_at
• static_usd_rate
• usd_exchange_rate
• usd_pledged
• usd_type

Datasets are stored in CSV format under the /data/weekly/technology & design folder structure.

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🧠 Who is this for?

• 🚀 Kickstarter creators: See what others are launching, and identify gaps or oversaturation.
• 📈 Product researchers: Track trends in product design and tech innovation.
• 📰 Journalists & analysts: Use structured data to support crowdfunding coverage and reports.
• 🤖 Data scientists: Build models to predict campaign success or analyze launch patterns.

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🔄 How is the data collected?

We use a Python-based scraper that queries Kickstarter's public project listings each week. The scraping process respects Kickstarter’s robots.txt and is designed for ethical data use.

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📅 Update Frequency

• Weekly, every Friday (UTC)
• Each batch is timestamped and versioned.

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MIT License

Pull requests welcome!

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🌐 Related Resources

🌍 KS Insights

🌍 Kickstarter Historical Dataset – 629,147 Projects (as of May 2025)

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📬 Contact Us

Have questions, suggestions, or need custom dataset? 📧 domingo@ksinsights.com