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 = ;console; // kickstarter 61356console; // indiegogo 7785
log all kickstarter projects to the console
var crapi = ;var projects = crapikickstarter;forvar i in projects console; // 61356 lines of utf-8
fetch a project url by name
var crapi = ;var oculus = crapikickstarter'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 = ;var ks = ;var opts = url: crapikickstarter'philosophy-posters' // url param for project;var project = options; // create a new instance of projectproject;
output
general_creator: 'Max Temkin' location_city: 'chicago'