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You would need historical data then, which I doubt kick starter would provide. Only way is to check the amount and # of backers every minute, on every page, unless I'm missing something. This would be incredibly useful information for people looking to use kickstarter, but I don't think kickstarter would be too happy about that being readily available. IMHO, all the more reason to get it.

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I wrote a perl script to pull data from kickstarter. The backers page on the kickstarter page lists all of the backers, and the date that they made their pledge. I wrote a script to pull these dates.

Data are only available at day level granularity, but it's pretty good. Check it out on the bottom of the post.

Thanks, wow kickstarter is just awesome that they offer that openly. A traditional organization I feel wouldn't.

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