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Leave empty to skip." }, "status": { "title": "⭐ Status", "enum": [ "All", "Live", "Successful" ], "type": "string", "description": "Filter by campaign status.", "default": "All" }, "pledged": { "title": "💰 Amount Pledged", "enum": [ "All", "< $1,000 pledged", "$1,000 to $10,000 pledged", "$10,000 to $100,000 pledged", "$100,000 to $1,000,000 pledged", "> $1,000,000 pledged" ], "type": "string", "description": "Filter by total amount pledged.", "default": "All" }, "goal": { "title": "🎯 Goal", "enum": [ "All", "< $1,000 goal", "$1,000 to $10,000 goal", "$10,000 to $100,000 goal", "$100,000 to $1,000,000 goal", "> $1,000,000 goal" ], "type": "string", "description": "Filter by the campaign's funding goal.", "default": "All" }, "raised": { "title": "📈 % Raised", "enum": [ "All", "< 75% raised", "75% to 100% raised", "> 100% raised" ], "type": "string", "description": "Filter by how much of the goal was raised.", "default": "All" }, "sort": { "title": "↕️ Sort By", "enum": [ "newest", "popularity", "end_date", "most_funded", "most_backed" ], "type": "string", "description": "Order of the results.", "default": "newest" }, "datasetName": { "title": "🗄️ Dataset Name", "type": "string", "description": "Write results into a named dataset (persists across runs and is overwritten each run). Leave empty to use the run's default dataset.", "default": "" }, "enrichProjects": { "title": "✨ Fetch Full Project Details", "type": "boolean", "description": "Fetch each project page for rewards, add-ons, items and full creator profiles. Turn off for a faster, lighter crawl that returns only the discover summary.", "default": true }, "concurrency": { "title": "⚡ Concurrency", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 20, "type": "integer", "description": "How many projects to fetch in parallel.", "default": 5 }, "requestDelay": { "title": "⏱️ Delay Between Requests (seconds)", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 10, "type": "number", "description": "Politeness delay; a small random jitter is added on top. Kickstarter rate-limits aggressively.", "default": 1 }, "impersonate": { "title": "🌐 Browser Fingerprint", "enum": [ "chrome131", "chrome124", "chrome120", "safari17_2_ios" ], "type": "string", "description": "Browser TLS fingerprint to impersonate. 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