Bluesky Scraper: Posts & Profiles

recordType	post
mode	searchPosts
uri	at://did:plc:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mexample2abc

How to use it: 3 steps

Make a free Apify accountApify is the cloud platform where our tools run. The free plan gives you $5 of usage every month, no credit card needed. You pay Apify, not us.
Paste your input and press StartNo code needed: you fill in a form (the input). It already has a working example. For example: apify in Search queries (mode: Search posts). Each start is one run.
Download the resultsWhen the run ends, the results are in a table (the dataset). Open Output, press Export and pick Excel or CSV. JSON and the API are there too.

This tool is an Apify Actor: a small program that runs on Apify. You can also run it on a schedule, for example every Monday. New to it? Read how it works, step by step and the 8 words you need first.

Made by Cliqto Media, an independent digital media company. We made this tool and keep it working. About us

What it does

Scrape public Bluesky posts, profiles, custom feeds, lists and reply threads with no login, and get clean JSON rows with text, engagement counts, links, mentions, hashtags, image alt text, quoted posts and author details.

Good for

Track what people post about a brand, product, hashtag or domain on Bluesky.
Collect the posts and profiles of a list of accounts for research or lead lists.
Pull a full reply thread for sentiment or discussion analysis.
Feed clean, typed Bluesky rows into an AI agent, a spreadsheet or a database.

Not a good fit

No private data: no DMs, no muted or blocked lists, nothing that needs login.
No followers or following lists in this version.
Search returns at most 100 posts per query, because Bluesky blocks further search pages without login. The Actor does not try to get around this.
Counts (likes, reposts, followers) are a snapshot at fetch time.

Who uses it

Social listening teams

Track what people post about a brand or hashtag.

Researchers

Collect a full reply thread for discussion analysis.

Lead generation teams

Get profiles with follower counts for a list of accounts.

Price

Pay per event: you pay for each result the tool saves, plus a small start fee for each run. The price includes Apify platform costs. Apify bills you, not us. Prices below are for the Apify free plan.

What you pay for	Price	When
Start fee	$0.001	Charged once per run. This tool uses 1 GB of memory or less by default; more memory costs more.
Post	$0.0009 (from $0.00055 on paid Apify plans)	One Bluesky post row saved to the Dataset (search, account posts, thread or feed).
Profile	$0.0027 (from $0.0016 on paid Apify plans)	One Bluesky profile row saved to the Dataset.
Empty result	$0.0005	One input value that returned no data: a search or account with no matching posts, or a profile, post, feed or list that does not exist or cannot be read.

Examples

One post: about $0.0019.
1,000 posts: about $0.90.
Every day 100 posts, for 30 days: about $2.73 a month.

Free to try: the Apify free plan gives you $5 of usage every month, no credit card needed. That is enough for about 5,500 posts.

Prices checked on 24 October 2026. See the current price on Apify.

Questions

Why do I get only 100 posts per search?

Bluesky shows more search pages only to logged-in users. The tool respects that limit.

Can I get a follower list?

Not in this version. You get the follower count in profile rows.

Are likes and reposts up to date?

They are a snapshot from the time of the run. Run again to refresh them.

Do I pay for posts that do not exist?

An input with no data is one small empty-result event. Error rows and duplicates are free.

Do I need a Bluesky account or app password?

No. The Actor reads only public data from the public Bluesky API and never asks for login.

Are the counts live?

They are a snapshot at fetchedAt. Run again to refresh them.

Is this data complete?

It is what the Bluesky API returns at fetch time. Deleted posts, blocked content and posts hidden by moderation are not included, and counts can be null when Bluesky does not report them.

Can I scrape followers or DMs?

Not in this version. DMs are private and will never be supported.

Is scraping Bluesky allowed?

The Actor uses only public endpoints at a modest request rate and does not bypass any limit. You are responsible for how you store and reuse the content, including personal data and authors' rights.

Details

Step by step on Apify

Open the Input tab.
Keep What to scrape on Search posts and add a word to Search queries, e.g. apify.
Keep Max posts per query at the prefilled 30 (the runtime default is 100).
Click Start.
Open the Posts view in the Output tab and check text, author.handle and likeCount.

Use cases

Task	Input	You get	Key fields	Next step
Brand or keyword listening	`mode: searchPosts`, `queries`	post	`text`, `createdAt`, `likeCount`, `author.handle`, `links`	Schedule the Actor, export to Sheets or a database
Account research	`mode: authorFeed`, `handles`, `since`	post	`text`, `isRepost`, `replyCount`, `externalLink`	Compare accounts, build datasets
Influencer or lead list	`mode: profiles`, `handles`	profile	`displayName`, `description`, `followersCount`, `postsCount`	CRM import
Discussion analysis	`mode: thread`, `postUrls`	post	`threadRole`, `threadDepth`, `text`, `replyTo`	Sentiment or topic analysis
Curated topic monitoring	`mode: feed`, `feedUrls`	post	`text`, `hashtags`, `images[].alt`	AI summarisation

Tips for better results

Split a big topic into narrow queries; search gives 100 posts per query.
Use date filters to get posts from one week only.
Turn off reposts if you want original posts only.

Limits and good to know

Post row / profile row: one per data row written
Empty result: one per input value that produced no data: a search query with no matches, an account with no matching posts, a profile, post or feed that does not exist, or a value that cannot be read (for example a typo in a link). If every value is unreadable, the run ends as NO_RESULTS with a message saying so, and each value is one empty result. It covers the requests made for that value
Actor start: charged by Apify once per run (per GB of memory; the default 256 MB counts as one)
Free: error rows (Bluesky failed), skipped inputs, duplicate posts and duplicate input values (the same account, post or feed written another way, e.g. @Name.bsky.social and its profile link)
Search: up to 100 posts per query (Bluesky's limit without login). Split the topic into narrower queries or date ranges to see more
Account posts: up to 10,000 feed items scanned per account. A scan also stops early when fewer than 1 in 100 items match the filters after the first 1,000 items, so a sparse filter does not read the whole history
Feeds: the same sparse stop applies
Speed at 256 MB: one account's 1,030 posts in about 5 s; 10,000 account posts took about 2–3 minutes in tests. Large jobs need a longer run timeout than the default 300 s; an input cut by the timeout is marked partial with its row count

For developers

Sample result

One result from a real test run, in JSON. Real values change from run to run. In Excel or CSV each field is a column.

one result · JSON

{
  "recordType": "post",
  "status": "complete",
  "mode": "searchPosts",
  "input": "opendata",
  "uri": "at://did:plc:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mexample2abc",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/author.example/post/3mexample2abc",
  "author": {
    "did": "did:plc:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
    "handle": "author.example",
    "displayName": "Sample Author",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/author.example"
  },
  "text": "Our open dataset is live! Thanks @team.example #opendata https://data.example/downloads",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-12T09:15:00.000Z",
  "likeCount": 2431,
  "repostCount": 318,
  "replyCount": 154,
  "isReply": false,
  "isRepost": false,
  "embedType": "images",
  "images": [
    { "url": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/bafkexample@jpeg", "alt": "Chart of monthly downloads" }
  ],
  "links": ["https://data.example/downloads"],
  "hashtags": ["opendata"],
  "mentions": [{ "did": "did:plc:bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb", "handle": "team.example" }],
  "quotedPost": null,
  "threadRole": null,
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-13T01:52:14.278Z",
  "source": "Bluesky AppView API (AT Protocol)"
}

Use it from code

Actor ID: cliqtomedia/bluesky-scraper. You need your Apify API token from Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations.

Python · apify-client

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("cliqtomedia/bluesky-scraper").call(run_input={
    "mode": "searchPosts",
    "queries": [
        "apify"
    ]
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cliqtomedia~bluesky-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode": "searchPosts", "queries": ["apify"]}'

LangChain · langchain-apify

# pip install langchain-apify
# set APIFY_TOKEN in your environment
from langchain_apify import ApifyActorsTool

tool = ApifyActorsTool("cliqtomedia/bluesky-scraper")
result = tool.invoke({"run_input": {"mode": "searchPosts", "queries": ["apify"]}})
print(result)

The cURL call waits for the results, up to 300 seconds. For longer runs, start a run (/runs) and get the results with a webhook or by checking the run. Apify API docs. LlamaIndex, MCP for AI agents and the JavaScript client: AI agents & MCP.

Data fields (40)

Field	Type	Meaning
`recordType`	string	Row type: post, profile or status. Error rows are free; a not-found or invalid value is charged as one empty result.
`status`	string	complete for data rows; not_found, invalid_input or error for status rows.
`mode`	string	Mode that produced the row.
`input`	string	Your input value (query, handle, post URL or feed URL) that produced the row.
`errorCode`	string	Status rows: machine code such as NOT_FOUND, INVALID_INPUT, RATE_LIMITED, SOURCE_FORBIDDEN, SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE.
`message`	string	Status rows: plain-English reason.
`uri`	string	Post AT URI, e.g. at://did:plc:…/app.bsky.feed.post/3l…
`cid`	string	Post content ID (CID).
`url`	string	bsky.app link to the post or profile.
`author`	object	Post author: did, handle, displayName, avatar, url.
`text`	string	Post text.
`createdAt`	string	When the post or account was created (ISO 8601, as stated by the author record).
`indexedAt`	string	When Bluesky indexed the post or profile (ISO 8601).
`langs`	array	Language codes declared by the post, e.g. ["en"].
`replyCount`	integer	Replies at fetch time.
`repostCount`	integer	Reposts at fetch time.
`likeCount`	integer	Likes at fetch time.
`quoteCount`	integer	Quote posts at fetch time.
`bookmarkCount`	integer	Bookmarks at fetch time, when Bluesky reports it.
`isReply`	boolean	true when the post is a reply.
`replyTo`	object	Parent post of a reply: uri and url.
`rootPost`	object	Thread root of a reply: uri and url.
`isRepost`	boolean	true when the row comes from a repost in a feed (see repostedBy, repostedAt).
`repostedBy`	object	Who reposted it into the feed: did and handle.
`repostedAt`	string	When it was reposted.
`isPinned`	boolean	true when the post is pinned on the author profile.
`isQuote`	boolean	true when the post quotes another post.
`quotedPost`	object	Quoted post: uri, url, authorHandle, text.
`embedType`	string	Attached media: images, video, external, record (quote), recordWithMedia or null.
`images`	array	Images: url, thumbnailUrl, alt text, width, height.
`video`	object	Video: playlistUrl, thumbnailUrl, alt text.
`externalLink`	object	Link card: url, title, description.
`links`	array	All links in the post text and link card.
`hashtags`	array	Hashtags without #.
`mentions`	array	Mentioned accounts: did and handle.
`labels`	array	Moderation and self labels on the post or profile.
`threadRole`	string	Thread mode: parent, anchor or reply.
`threadDepth`	integer	Thread mode: 0 for the requested post, negative for parents, positive for replies.
`did`	string	Profile DID (stable account ID).
`handle`	string	Profile handle, e.g. bsky.app.

Input settings (13)

The main fields of the input form. With the API you send them as JSON.

Setting	Name in the API	Type	Example value
What to scrape required	`mode`	string	`"searchPosts"`
Search queries (mode: Search posts)	`queries`	array	`["apify"]`
Handles (modes: Posts from accounts, Profiles)	`handles`	array
Post links (mode: Post thread)	`postUrls`	array
Feed or list links (mode: Custom feed or list)	`feedUrls`	array
Max posts per query, account, thread or feed	`maxItems`	integer	`30`
From date	`since`	string
To date	`until`	string
Search order	`searchSort`	string	`"latest"`
Post language (search)	`language`	string
Include replies	`includeReplies`	boolean	`true`
Include reposts (account posts, feeds)	`includeReposts`	boolean	`false`
Reply depth (thread)	`threadDepth`	integer	`10`

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How to use it: 3 steps

What it does

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Who uses it

Social listening teams

Researchers

Lead generation teams

Price

Examples

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Details

For developers

Sample result

Use it from code

Use cases with this tool

Start on Apify

Bluesky Scraper: Posts, Profiles, Feeds and Threads

How to use it: 3 steps

What it does

Good for

Not a good fit

Who uses it

Social listening teams

Researchers

Lead generation teams

Price

Examples

Questions

Details

For developers

Sample result

Use it from code

Use cases with this tool

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