crapi

• crapi lets you require a crowdfunding data set consisting of 69,294 projects
• currently names and urls are the only supported data points
• data is organized around platforms (kickstarter and indiegogo currently)
• each platform is a json where keys correspond to project names and values to project urls

installation

npm install crapi

examples

find out the number of kickstarter and indiegogo projects

var crapi = require('crapi');
console.log('kickstarter '+Object.keys(crapi.kickstarter).length); // kickstarter 61356
console.log('indiegogo '+Object.keys(crapi.indiegogo).length); // indiegogo 7785

log all kickstarter projects to the console

var crapi = require('crapi');
var projects = crapi.kickstarter;
for(var i in projects) {
  console.log(i+': '+projects[i]); // 61356 lines of utf-8
}

fetch a project url by name

var crapi = require('crapi');
var oculus = crapi.kickstarter['oculus-rift-step-into-the-game'];
// http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game

head back to the registry

npm install kickstarter-crawler

kickstarter-crawler is a module that fetches data when given a kickstarter url

let's find out who created the 'philosophy posters' kickstarter project and where it's from

var crapi = require('crapi');
var ks = require('kickstarter-crawler');
var opts = {
  url: crapi.kickstarter['philosophy-posters']     // url param for project
};
var project = new ks.project(options);             // create a new instance of project
project.getCreator().getCity(function(err, data) { // fetch data
  if(err) throw err;
  console.log(data);
});

output

{ general_creator: 'Max Temkin',
  location_city: 'chicago' }