Check if a Kickstarter username is taken

What we check on Kickstarter

Standard tier - checked on every full lookup

Kickstarter is checked from a username. The response says whether that handle exists on Kickstarter - registered: true or registered: false - with the moment that was established in checkedAt. An email address on its own cannot reach Kickstarter; if you only have an email, its local part is tried as a handle and any hit is labelled as derived, never counted as a confirmed match.

Kickstarter is checked on every full lookup (?wait=true or streaming), alongside every other platform. It is not in the sub-second instant subset, which is reserved for the highest-value platforms for each input type.

If Kickstarter blocks the check, times out, or answers ambiguously, it is omitted from results[] entirely rather than returned as registered: false. Absence from the response means "unconfirmed", never "no account".

Who checks Kickstarter accounts

Payment and crowdfunding accounts are checked most often in KYC, AML and payout onboarding. Peer-to-peer payment and creator-support accounts show that an email or phone number has been used for real money movement before - useful context when a new customer is about to receive or send funds.

More on this: Mule account detection.

Inputs Kickstarter accepts

• Username: send the handle as query. Kickstarter is checked for that exact handle - useful when a person reuses the same name across platforms.

One request

curl -X POST "https://api.digifootprint.dev/v2/lookup?wait=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer dfp_your_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "someuser"}'

What a Kickstarter result looks like

{
  "platform": "kickstarter",
  "registered": true,
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-15T09:53:18.071Z",
  "identity": "username"
}

The full response shape - breaches, web mentions, matches versus socialMatches, and what method means - is in running a lookup.

Related platforms

Every one of these is checked in the same request as Kickstarter.

Kickstarter lookup FAQ

Can I check a phone number on Kickstarter?

Not directly. Kickstarter can be reached from username. Phone numbers are checked on the messaging and social apps that sign people up by phone.

How fast is a Kickstarter check?

Kickstarter is checked on a full lookup, which streams results as they land - the first matches arrive in around 60 milliseconds and the whole set typically completes in a few seconds.

What happens if Kickstarter blocks the check?

Kickstarter is left out of the response. We never report a platform we could not confirm as "not registered" - a missing platform means unconfirmed, not absent.

Does the API return the Kickstarter account details?

No. You get whether an account exists for the input you sent, and when that was established. No profile contents, photos, followers or private data are collected or returned.