# Bluesky Mentions Monitor: Keyword Alerts to Slack (`accountable_eel/bluesky-mentions-monitor`) Actor

Bluesky keyword, brand and competitor mention monitor. Alert me when my handle is mentioned on Bluesky, or watch new posts from a list of accounts. One row per public post, plus new-post alerts to Slack, Discord or Telegram. Bluesky brand monitoring from n8n. Bills only for new posts. No API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/accountable_eel/bluesky-mentions-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Adriana Voss](https://apify.com/accountable_eel) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 bluesky post returneds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Bluesky Mentions Monitor: Keyword Alerts to Slack

Watch public Bluesky posts for keywords, brand names, competitor names, domains,
@-mentions of an account, or new posts from accounts you follow. One dataset row per
post. Turn on monitoring and each run returns only the posts that are new since the
last run, and can push them straight to Slack, Discord or Telegram.

No API key. Anonymous public search on `api.bsky.app`.

### How to use Bluesky Mentions Monitor: Keyword Alerts to Slack

1. **In the Apify Console.** Open the actor page and click **Start** — the `queries` field is already pre-filled with a working example. Results land in the run's dataset as soon as each item is found.
2. **Via the API.** Call it directly with a POST request — no Console needed once you have an API token:
   ```bash
   curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~bluesky-mentions-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
     -X POST \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"queries":["apify"]}'
   ```
3. **On a schedule.** Save this actor as an Apify **Task** with the input you want, then add a **Schedule** (hourly, daily, weekly) so it runs on its own — no server of your own required.

### Input

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "apify"
  ]
}
```

One search per line: a keyword, a phrase in quotes, or a bare domain such as apify.com. Each line is searched across public Bluesky posts. Mentions and watched accounts are set in their own fields below. Accepted formats: apify, "open source", apify.com.

- `queries`: keywords, phrases in quotes, or bare domains. One search each.
- `mentionHandles` (optional): handles whose @-mentions to watch.
- `watchHandles` (optional): handles whose own new posts to return (reposts excluded).
- `sinceHours` (default 24, max 720), `maxResults` (default 100, max 1,000, per item).
- `language`, `excludeReplies`, `minLikes`: filters applied before billing.
- `onlyNewSinceLastRun` and `deltaName`: monitoring and watchlist name.
- `notifyUrl` and `notifyFormat`: Slack, Discord or Telegram webhook (or any JSON
  endpoint). The link is a secret and is never logged.

### Output

| query | found | status | postUrl | text | authorHandle | authorDisplayName | createdAt | likeCount | repostCount | replyCount | matchedQuery | isNew | firstSeenAt | scrapedAt |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| apify | true | OK | <post link> | <post text> | <author handle> | <author name> | <posted> | <likes> | <reposts> | <replies> | <matched search> | \<is this post new?> | <first seen on a run> | 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z |

One row per post: `postUrl`, `text`, `authorHandle`, `authorDisplayName`, `createdAt`,
`likeCount`, `repostCount`, `replyCount`, `quoteCount`, `lang`, `links`, `hashtags`,
`matchedQuery`, `isNew`, `firstSeenAt`, `uri`. Counts are null when Bluesky does not
return them. A search with no matches returns one `found: false` row and costs nothing.

### Billing

One `post` event per post returned. A search with no matches, and a monitoring run with
nothing new, are never charged.

### Tests

`npm test` runs offline tests against a saved search-page fixture.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

One search per line: a keyword, a phrase in quotes, or a bare domain such as apify.com. Each line is searched across public Bluesky posts. Mentions and watched accounts are set in their own fields below. Accepted formats: apify, "open source", apify.com. You're only charged for the ones we actually find — a miss costs nothing.

## `mentionHandles` (type: `array`):

Bluesky handles, for example someone.bsky.social. Each one returns posts that mention the account. Leave empty to skip.

## `watchHandles` (type: `array`):

Bluesky handles. Each one returns that account's own recent posts (reposts excluded). Leave empty to skip.

## `testRun` (type: `boolean`):

Turn this on to test your input on a small sample before running the full list. Turn it off to process everything.

## `onlyFound` (type: `boolean`):

Only keep rows where something was actually found. Misses are always free, whether or not you show them here.

## `includeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Optional. Only keep results that mention at least one of these words (e.g. a job title, a city, a product name). Leave empty to keep everything.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Optional. Drop any result that mentions one of these words. Leave empty to skip nothing.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Caps how many posts you get (and pay for) from each keyword, mention or watched account. Default 100, maximum 1,000.

## `sinceHours` (type: `integer`):

How far back to search, from 1 to 720 hours. Default 24. Applied as a date filter on Bluesky, before you are billed.

## `language` (type: `string`):

A two-letter language code such as en or de. Leave empty for every language.

## `excludeReplies` (type: `boolean`):

When on, posts that reply to another post are dropped before you are billed.

## `minLikes` (type: `integer`):

Keep a post only when it has at least this many likes. Default 0.

## `onlyNewSinceLastRun` (type: `boolean`):

Turns each search, mention and account into an alert. A post counts as new when its Bluesky URI has not been returned for that item by a previous run of the same watchlist. Already-seen posts are dropped before you are billed, so a run with nothing new costs only the start fee. URIs not seen for 30 days are forgotten.

## `deltaName` (type: `string`):

Leave empty and one is derived from your search settings. Type your own name to keep two schedules of the same search apart. With the checkbox above off, every post is returned and stamped 'Is this post new?' so you can filter in Sheets, n8n or Make.

## `notifyUrl` (type: `string`):

Optional. After the posts are billed, each NEW post is posted here as one message: author, text, engagement and a link, with a NEW POST badge. Discord or Slack: paste the channel webhook URL. Telegram: https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/sendMessage?chat_id=<chat id>. Any other URL receives JSON. Messages are free, and a message that fails never fails the run (the row's notifyErrors says why). Stored encrypted, never logged or written to the results. Alerts only go out with monitoring on.

## `notifyFormat` (type: `string`):

Leave on "Detect from the link": discord.com links get Discord messages, hooks.slack.com Slack, api.telegram.org Telegram, anything else JSON. Pick one only to override that.

## `maxNotificationsPerRun` (type: `integer`):

Up to 100. Above this, one "+N more" message says how many more posts are in the run's dataset. 0 sends only that one summary message.

## `columns` (type: `array`):

Choose which pieces of information to include in each result row. All are included by default.

## `expandRows` (type: `boolean`):

When on, each post found gets its own row instead of being grouped under its search. You're still only charged once per search, no matter how many rows it produces.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel requests. Keep conservative — this target has no browser fallback, so getting blocked costs more than slow-and-steady.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy config. Residential recommended for anti-bot-sensitive targets.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "apify"
  ],
  "mentionHandles": [],
  "watchHandles": [],
  "testRun": false,
  "onlyFound": false,
  "includeKeywords": [],
  "excludeKeywords": [],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "sinceHours": 24,
  "language": "",
  "excludeReplies": false,
  "minLikes": 0,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false,
  "deltaName": "",
  "notifyFormat": "auto",
  "maxNotificationsPerRun": 20,
  "columns": [
    "postUrl",
    "text",
    "authorHandle",
    "authorDisplayName",
    "createdAt",
    "likeCount",
    "repostCount",
    "replyCount",
    "matchedQuery",
    "isNew",
    "firstSeenAt"
  ],
  "expandRows": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "apify"
    ],
    "mentionHandles": [],
    "watchHandles": [],
    "includeKeywords": [],
    "excludeKeywords": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("accountable_eel/bluesky-mentions-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "queries": ["apify"],
    "mentionHandles": [],
    "watchHandles": [],
    "includeKeywords": [],
    "excludeKeywords": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("accountable_eel/bluesky-mentions-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "apify"
  ],
  "mentionHandles": [],
  "watchHandles": [],
  "includeKeywords": [],
  "excludeKeywords": []
}' |
apify call accountable_eel/bluesky-mentions-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,accountable_eel/bluesky-mentions-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/4uMPbrSI31SPHCUvm/builds/cG1hakhUs4sCm9Ojd/openapi.json