Category · 14 tools
Social media and community scrapers
Collect public posts and profiles from Threads, Bluesky, Telegram channels, Medium, Pinterest, Hacker News and more. Reddit and Quora are coming soon.
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Overview
What you can collect
People talk about brands, products and ideas every day. They do it on social media and in online communities. Our tools collect these public posts for you.
You give a search word, a profile, a channel or a link. The tool returns posts in a clean table. You get the text, author, date, likes, replies and link. Some tools also return comments.
Live today: Threads, Bluesky, Telegram channels, Medium, Truth Social, Pinterest, Bilibili, Hacker News, Product Hunt and Substack.
Coming soon: Reddit, Quora, Weibo and Stack Exchange.
Many tools need no login. They read public data only. All tools run on Apify. Export to CSV, JSON or Excel. You pay for use on Apify.
12 live · 2 coming soon
Social media tools
Substack Newsletter Scraper
Get post data from public Substack feeds.
Social mediaLive on ApifyHacker News Stories & Comments Scraper
Export Hacker News stories and comments as rows.
Social mediaLive on ApifyBilibili Scraper: Videos, Comments & Creators, No Login
Get public Bilibili data in clean rows.
Social mediaLive on ApifyBluesky Scraper — Posts, Profiles, Feeds & Threads, No Login
Get public Bluesky posts, profiles, threads and feeds as clean rows.
Social mediaLive on ApifyMedium Article Scraper: Tags, Authors & Publications
Get the newest Medium stories by tag, author or publication.
Social mediaLive on ApifyPinterest Search Scraper: Pins & Boards, No Login
Get pins and boards from Pinterest search, boards and profiles.
Social mediaLive on ApifyProduct Hunt Launches Scraper – Daily Top, No Login
Get Product Hunt daily leaderboards for any day or period up to 31 days.
Social mediaLive on ApifyReddit Scraper: Posts, Comments & Subreddits (No login)
Get public Reddit posts and comments as clean rows.
Social mediaLive on ApifyTelegram Channel Scraper - Posts & Views, No Login
Get posts from public Telegram channels as clean rows.
Social mediaLive on ApifyThreads Scraper — Posts, Profiles, Replies & Search
Get public Threads posts without login.
Social mediaLive on ApifyTruth Social Scraper - Posts & Profiles, No Login
Get public Truth Social posts and profiles by username.
Social mediaLive on ApifyWeibo Scraper: Posts, Comments & Profiles, No Login
Get public Weibo data without login.
Social mediaComing soonQuora Answers Scraper: Upvotes, Views & Authors, No Login
Get public Quora answers for a question or a topic.
Social mediaComing soonStack Overflow & Stack Exchange Q&A Scraper, No Login
Pick a site and a tag, a search or a list of question links.
Ideas
Use cases
Track what people say about your brand.
Find common questions and pain points in your niche.
Collect posts to train or test an AI model.
Watch new launches on Product Hunt every day.
Study trends and topics for research.
Sample output
Clean data, ready to use
This is one result from Substack Newsletter Scraper. Our tools return tidy JSON like this. Export it as CSV or Excel in one click.
{
"schemaVersion": "v1",
"recordType": "post",
"postKey": "v1:sha256:54fa1135afab659a504413c570559306127df98abd78cbba50fbd817cb9b5c4f",
"feedUrl": "https://on.substack.com/feed",
"publicationKey": "on.substack.com/feed",
"publicationName": "On Substack",
"publicationUrl": "https://on.substack.com/",
"sourceGuid": "https://on.substack.com/p/a-new-vision-for-sponsorships",
"canonicalUrl": "https://on.substack.com/p/a-new-vision-for-sponsorships",
"title": "A new vision for sponsorships",
"subtitle": null,
"publishedAt": "2026-10-08T13:14:23.000Z",
"updatedAt": null,
"author": "Substack team",
"categories": [],
"audience": "unknown",
"contentMode": "metadata_only",
"contentAvailability": "unknown",
"retrievedAt": "2026-10-09T11:24:18.452Z",
"sourceStatus": "POST_SAVED"
}Use cases
Ways to use these tools
Social listening
Find what people say about your brand and your topic on Bluesky, Hacker News, YouTube and more.
Creator outreach
Find podcasts, YouTube channels and newsletters in your niche, with public contact details.
Competitor watch
See what your competitors launch, hire, change and advertise. Every week, without opening their sites.
Questions
Can I scrape Reddit without an API key?
Our Reddit tool needs no login and no Reddit API key. You only need an Apify account.
Can I get comments as well as posts?
Many tools return comments or replies. Check the output fields on each tool page.
Do you collect private posts?
No. Our tools read public data only.
Is it legal to scrape social media?
Public posts are often fine to collect, but rules differ by site and country. Follow the site's terms and privacy law. Ask a lawyer about your case.
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