GiveScrapeGo: A GiveSendGo Scraper

This is a Python toolkit for collecting and analyzing publicly available data from GiveSendGo, including individual campaign donations and the full site-wide campaign directory. Built for accountability journalism, civic research, and transparency.

Note: Everything collected is publicly visible on GiveSendGo without an account. No private data is accessed.

Use Cases

• Accountability journalism: Tracking who funds politically motivated campaigns
• Research: Analyzing donor networks, comment sentiment, and fundraising patterns over time
• Platform-wide analysis: Using the campaign directory scraper to identify trends across all of GiveSendGo

Overview

• As of March 4th, 2026, there are 6069 active campaigns on GiveSendGo.
• Out of campaigns raising USD, these campaigns have raised a total of $74,353,764.
• The most common campaign is Medical, followed by Mission, Emergency, Family, and Legal.
• The most common recipient states include Texas, Florida, and California.

Scripts

campaign_scraper/script.py

Collects every donation record from a specific GiveSendGo campaign. For each donation, it captures the donor name, amount, timestamp, and any comment left by the donor.

all_campaigns/script.py

Scrapes GiveSendGo's full campaign directory by paginating through the /api/v2/campaigns endpoint. Automatically detects the total number of pages on the first request and iterates through all of them, collecting metadata for every campaign on the site.

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Repository Structure

├── all_campaigns/               # Donation scraper for all campaign metadata
│   ├── results/
│   |   └── all_campaigns.csv
|   └── script.py
├── campaign_scraper/            # Donation scraper for a single campaign
│   ├── results/
│   │   └── all_donations.csv
│   ├── requirements.txt
│   └── script.py
└── README.md