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Each object accepts term, state, categoryId, woeId, sort, staffPicks, raised and goal. Use several queries to get past the 2,400-row-per-query ceiling -- split by category, state or location. Leave empty to use the flat fields below." }, "term": { "title": "Search term", "type": "string", "description": "Free-text search, used when 'Queries' is empty. Verified honest: a term with no matches returns zero results, not the unfiltered baseline." }, "state": { "title": "Project state", "enum": [ "", "live", "successful", "failed", "canceled", "upcoming" ], "type": "string", "description": "Only these five are real filter values. 'suspended' looks like a sixth and is not one -- Kickstarter answers it with every state at once, identically to a nonsense string, so this actor refuses it.", "default": "" }, "categoryId": { "title": "Category id", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer", "description": "Kickstarter category id. Parent ids (1 Art, 3 Comics, 6 Dance, 7 Design, 9 Fashion, 10 Food, 11 Film & Video, 12 Games, 13 Journalism, 14 Music, 15 Photography, 16 Technology, 17 Theater, 18 Publishing, 26 Crafts) filter strictly. A SUBcategory id is a relevance filter upstream and mixes in neighbouring categories -- rows carry categoryMatchesRequested so you can tell." }, "woeId": { "title": "Location id (woe_id)", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer", "description": "Kickstarter location id, e.g. 2459115 for New York, NY. An unknown id is NOT an error upstream -- it silently returns every project. Rows carry locationMatchesRequested and the summary says whether the filter was honoured." }, "sort": { "title": "Sort", "enum": [ "magic", "popularity", "newest", "end_date", "most_funded", "most_backed" ], "type": "string", "description": "An unrecognised sort is not an error upstream -- it silently becomes 'magic', so the run looks sorted and is not. Only these six are accepted here.", "default": "magic" }, "staffPicks": { "title": "Staff picks only", "type": "boolean", "description": "Restrict to projects Kickstarter has featured.", "default": false }, "raised": { "title": "Funding progress band", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 2, "type": "integer", "description": "Kickstarter's own band: 0 = under 75% funded, 1 = 75-100%, 2 = over 100%." }, "goal": { "title": "Goal size band", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 6, "type": "integer", "description": "Kickstarter's own goal band, 0 (under $1,000) through 6 (over $100,000)." }, "maxProjectsPerQuery": { "title": "Max projects per query", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Set 0 to walk to the ceiling. That ceiling is 2,400 rows (page 200); page 201 is a genuine HTTP 404, so a broad query cannot be fully collected in one go however many hits it reports.", "default": 60 }, "includeProjectDetails": { "title": "Include reward tiers", "type": "boolean", "description": "Second pass over each project page for reward tiers, add-ons, tags and update/comment counts. Costs about 590 KB per project against 7 KB for a discovery row, so it is off by default.", "default": false }, "includeLiveStats": { "title": "Include live counters", "type": "boolean", "description": "Fetch each project's 168-byte stats endpoint for up-to-the-minute backers, pledged and comment counts. Discovery results are cached and can lag by hours; both numbers are kept side by side.", "default": false }, "maxDetailsPerQuery": { "title": "Max detail fetches per query", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Caps the second pass separately from the result count, so a large discovery run does not turn into a large download.", "default": 25 }, "maxConcurrency": { "title": "Max concurrent requests", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 8, "type": "integer", "description": "Requests in flight at once across all queries. Kickstarter drops back-to-back connections under load, so this is deliberately low.", "default": 2 }, "minRequestInterval": { "title": "Min seconds between request starts", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 30, "type": "integer", "description": "Politeness pacing shared across all workers.", "default": 1 }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Optional and OFF by default. Cloudflare here is a TLS-fingerprint gate that the measured profile pool passes cold. 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