IndieCrowdfund Public Data API v1

Read-only access to public campaign and platform data on IndieCrowdfund (a DBA of Divinity Comics Inc.). Built for crowdfunding tracker sites, researchers, and journalists.

Base URL: https://indiecrowdfund.com/api/v1

What this API does and does not contain

It exposes only what an anonymous visitor can already see on the website: campaign listings, funding totals, reward tiers, and platform-wide aggregates.

It contains no personal information. There is no endpoint for backers, pledges, addresses, emails, survey answers, or payout details, and no parameter that will surface them. Individual backers are never identifiable. Campaign funding figures are aggregates only.

Unlaunched campaigns (draft, submitted, approved-but-not-live) are never returned — only LIVE, FUNDED, FAILED and CANCELLED.

Getting credentials

1. Create a free IndieCrowdfund account.
2. Go to Dashboard → API Access.
3. Register your integration with its name, URL, and a contact email.
4. You get a key (ick_live_...) and a secret (icsk_live_...).

The secret is shown once and stored only as a hash. If you lose it, revoke the key and issue a new one. Up to 3 active keys per account.

The contact email is used only to reach you about the integration — for example before a breaking change, or if your traffic looks like a runaway loop. It is not published.

Authentication

Send both halves as headers:

X-API-Key: ick_live_xxxxxxxx
X-API-Secret: icsk_live_xxxxxxxx

Or as a single bearer token, key:secret:

Authorization: Bearer ick_live_xxxxxxxx:icsk_live_xxxxxxxx

Never put credentials in the query string — they end up in access logs, proxy caches, and Referer headers.

Rate limits

120 requests per minute per key. Every response carries:

X-RateLimit-Limit
X-RateLimit-Remaining
X-RateLimit-Reset      (unix seconds)

Over the limit returns 429. Responses are cached for 60 seconds (300 for /stats), so polling faster than that returns the same data.

Endpoints

GET /projects

Paginated list of public campaigns.

Use updated_since to poll incrementally instead of re-walking the whole catalogue on every run.

curl -s "https://indiecrowdfund.com/api/v1/projects?status=LIVE&sort=ending_soon&limit=25" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $ICF_KEY" \
  -H "X-API-Secret: $ICF_SECRET"

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "clx...",
      "slug": "titan-mouse-of-might",
      "url": "https://indiecrowdfund.com/projects/garyshipmanart/titan-mouse-of-might",
      "title": "Titan: Mouse of Might",
      "subtitle": "An all-ages fantasy adventure",
      "category": "Comics",
      "subcategory": "Graphic Novels",
      "location": "Ohio, USA",
      "image_url": "https://...",
      "currency": "USD",
      "goal_amount": 5000,
      "pledged_amount": 7345.5,
      "percent_funded": 146.9,
      "backer_count": 213,
      "follower_count": 44,
      "status": "LIVE",
      "campaign_type": "ALL_OR_NOTHING",
      "project_type": "COMIC",
      "is_staff_pick": true,
      "has_adult_content": false,
      "uses_ai": false,
      "tags": ["fantasy", "all-ages"],
      "launch_date": "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "end_date": "2026-08-30T17:13:00.000Z",
      "days_remaining": 9,
      "created_at": "2026-06-18T12:00:00.000Z",
      "creator": {
        "name": "Gary Shipman",
        "profile_url": "https://indiecrowdfund.com/garyshipmanart",
        "avatar_url": "https://..."
      }
    }
  ],
  "pagination": { "total": 184, "limit": 25, "offset": 0, "has_more": true }
}

GET /projects/{slug}

One campaign, plus its full description, risks statement, and reward tiers.

Reward objects include quantity_available, quantity_claimed and quantity_remaining — the same "N left" figure shown publicly. No backer is identifiable from them.

Returns 404 for a slug that does not exist or is not public, so unlaunched campaigns cannot be discovered by guessing slugs.

GET /stats

Platform-wide aggregates.

{
  "data": {
    "currency": "USD",
    "total_raised": 1284320.45,
    "total_pledges": 18402,
    "total_backers": 12044,
    "total_creators": 388,
    "projects_total": 512,
    "projects_live": 41,
    "projects_funded": 305,
    "success_rate": 59.6,
    "average_pledge": 69.79,
    "categories": [{ "category": "Comics", "project_count": 310 }],
    "generated_at": "2026-08-22T04:00:00.000Z"
  }
}

Errors

{ "error": { "code": "rate_limited", "message": "Rate limit exceeded. Try again shortly." } }

401 is deliberately identical for unknown, revoked and mismatched credentials so the endpoint cannot be used to probe which keys exist.

Conventions

• All money is a JSON number in the currency named by currency.
• All timestamps are ISO 8601 UTC.
• Field names are snake_case.
• CORS is open (*); GET and OPTIONS only.
• New fields may be added without notice. Removals or renames get a new

version at /api/v2 and an email to the address on your key.

Attribution

Please credit IndieCrowdfund and link to the campaign url when you publish figures from this API.

Support

Questions, a higher rate limit, or a field you need that isn't here: contact support through the website. Include your key prefix (ick_live_..., first 16 characters) — never the secret.