Behance Projects Scraper

Behance Projects Scraper: projects, creators and appreciation counts for any search

Type what you would search Behance for and you get one row per project: the title and link, appreciations, views and comment count, the creator and their profile, the creative fields and tags, and the cover image. Up to 20 terms can share a run, and a project two terms both find comes back once. Before a big pull, know that Behance stops any one search at 1,000 projects, however many it claims to have, so a wider net needs more terms rather than a bigger number.

No emails, phone numbers or other contact details are asked for or written. You get the public profile link and it stops there. The form arrives with two real search terms and 100 projects, so pressing Start without editing runs that search and bills what it finds.

🔍 What Behance Projects Scraper does

It runs your terms through Behance's own project search, in the order and date window you pick, and writes a row for each project that comes back.

Behance's search is loose. A two-word term matches work that hits either word, and some results carry neither. So every project is checked for at least one of your words in its title, tags, creative fields or creator's name before it's written, and the ones that fail are dropped without charge. A project that carries one of your two words stays in: "coffee shop branding" still returns work tagged only "branding".

Pick a creative field and anything Behance returns outside that field is dropped the same way.

maxItems is split evenly between your terms. Four terms and 200 rows gives you up to 50 of each, and a project found by two of them is written and charged once.

📥 What you give it

{
  "searchTerms": ["brand identity", "packaging design"],
  "maxItems": 5,
  "sortBy": "recommended",
  "publishedWithin": "all",
  "creativeField": ""
}

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "project",
  "query": "brand identity",
  "title": "Tempo | Run Event Brand",
  "url": "https://www.behance.net/gallery/249464269/Tempo-Run-Event-Brand",
  "appreciations": 3629,
  "views": 72952,
  "comments": 219,
  "creatorName": "Omigunani | Brand Designer",
  "creatorUsername": "omigunani",
  "creatorUrl": "https://www.behance.net/omigunani",
  "creatorLocation": "Jakarta, Indonesia",
  "collaborators": "Soma Prayoga, WIIOZARD DESIGN",
  "creativeFields": "Branding, Graphic Design",
  "tags": "brand identity, Graphic Designer, visual identity, Logo Design, branding, design, photoshop, adobe illustrator, Social media post, Socialmedia",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T15:32:36.000Z",
  "coverImage": "https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/projects/max_808/508d7c249464269.Y3JvcCw1NTIzLDQzMjAsMTA4MCww.png",
  "slug": "Tempo-Run-Event-Brand",
  "projectId": "249464269",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T02:24:19.294Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in the dataset.

The sample row only appears when there are no search terms. Filter on recordType being project to keep just the projects.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Behance Projects Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Type your searches into Search terms, one per line. 3. Set Maximum projects, then pick Sort by and Published within if the defaults aren't what you want. 4. Under Filters, choose a Creative field (optional) to stay inside one field. 5. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$3.70 per 1,000 projects, flat on every Apify plan.

You pay per project row. The sample row and diagnostic rows are never charged. Neither are off-topic results, results outside your creative field, or a project that a second term found again.

💡 What people use it for

• Finding the designers behind work you like in a category, then getting in touch through their Behance profile yourself.
• Watching what's doing well in a field: sort by appreciations, set the past week, run it on a schedule and compare projectId with last time.
• A reference board without two hundred screenshots. Every row has the cover link and the creator's own tags.
• Checking how a style or a term is actually used on Behance before naming your own project that way.

🚧 What it does not do

• More than 1,000 projects per search term. Behance stops there. Use more terms for a wider net.
• Contact details. No emails, phone numbers, social handles, rates or availability.
• Open the projects. You get the cover link and the numbers from the search, not the images inside, the description or the comments.
• Download images. coverImage is a link, and fetching it is up to you.
• A creator's whole portfolio. The input is a search, not a username.
• Custom date ranges. Only all time, today, the past week and the past month.
• Explain "Recommended". That's Behance's own ranking and its rules aren't published. Sort by a number if you need an order you can defend.

🧭 Which design scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

What happens if a term matches nothing? You get one free NO_RESULTS row for it and the run carries on with your other terms.

Why did I get fewer rows than I asked for? Behance stops each search at 1,000, off-topic results are dropped, the budget is split between terms, and a project found twice counts once.

Can I get one designer's portfolio? Not with this. Searching their name finds their work when the name is on their profile or in their tags, but that's a search, not a portfolio export.

Do I need a Behance account or an API key? No. It reads the same public search anyone can use.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Nothing is kept between runs, so compare projectId with the last run to spot new work.

Can I use the images? The projects are public, but every cover belongs to the designer who made it, so ask before you republish one. Apify's article on whether web scraping is legal covers the collecting side.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page and send your search terms and the run ID. The diagnostic rows in the dataset usually name the reason already.