kickstarter-api

Scheduled GitHub Actions scraper that publishes Kickstarter campaign stats as a static JSON endpoint via GitHub Pages.

How it works

1. A GitHub Actions cron job runs every hour on the gh-pages branch
2. Puppeteer scrapes ?format=json from the Kickstarter campaign page
3. Stats are written to build-awesome-pro.json and committed back to gh-pages
4. GitHub Pages serves the file at:

   https://11ty.github.io/kickstarter-api/build-awesome-pro.json
   

Setup

Create the repo and enable GitHub Pages

• Create a new GitHub repo named kickstarter-api
• Go to Settings → Pages
• Set source to Deploy from a branch, branch gh-pages, folder /docs

Consuming the endpoint in Eleventy

// _data/campaign.js
import Fetch from "@11ty/eleventy-fetch";

export default async function () {
  return Fetch(
    "https://11ty.github.io/kickstarter-api/build-awesome-pro.json",
    { duration: "1h", type: "json" }
  );
}

Response shape

{
  "backers": 616,
  "pledged": 75921.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "goal": 30000,
  "percentFunded": 253,
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-14T12:00:00.000Z"
}