Bluesky Scraper - Posts, Profiles & Search

Turn public Bluesky activity into clean, structured datasets you can actually use. Pull posts, author feeds, profile search results and profile metrics as ready-to-analyse JSON, CSV or Excel - for social listening, market and academic research, and AI/RAG training data.

No Bluesky account, no API key, no proxy setup. Paste a keyword or a handle, hit Start, and get rows.

Why not just scrape bluesky.app HTML?

	Scraping Bluesky HTML	This Actor
Data source	Rendered web pages	Official public AT Protocol API (api.bsky.app)
Login	Often needed, risk of account issues	Not needed - fully public endpoints
Proxies	Usually required	Not required
Stability	Breaks on every UI redesign	Follows a documented, versioned API
Output	Messy HTML you must parse	Flat, typed JSON records
Engagement metrics	Hard to extract reliably	Likes, reposts, replies, quotes included
Setup time	Hours of selector work	Runs with empty input {}

What can it extract?

Mode	What you get
search_posts	Posts matching a keyword or phrase, sorted by latest or top
author_feed	The latest posts from a single account by handle or DID
search_profiles	Bluesky profiles matching a keyword, for creator and audience discovery
profile	One profile by handle or DID, with follower and post counts

Example output

Post record

{
  "type": "post",
  "uri": "at://...",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/user.bsky.social/post/abc",
  "text": "Post text",
  "createdAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "authorHandle": "user.bsky.social",
  "authorDisplayName": "User",
  "replyCount": 1,
  "repostCount": 2,
  "likeCount": 3,
  "quoteCount": 0
}

Field	Example value
type	post
url	https://bsky.app/profile/user.bsky.social/post/abc
text	Post text
createdAt	2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
authorHandle	user.bsky.social
likeCount	3

Profile record

{
  "type": "profile",
  "did": "did:plc:...",
  "handle": "bsky.app",
  "displayName": "Bluesky",
  "followersCount": 1000000,
  "postsCount": 1234,
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app"
}

Field	Example value
type	profile
handle	bsky.app
displayName	Bluesky
followersCount	1000000
postsCount	1234

Output fields

Post

Field	Type	Description
type	string	Always post for post records
uri	string	AT Protocol URI of the post
url	string	Public bsky.app link to the post
text	string	Full text of the post
createdAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the post was created
authorHandle	string	Handle of the account that posted
authorDisplayName	string	Display name of the author
replyCount	integer	Number of replies
repostCount	integer	Number of reposts
likeCount	integer	Number of likes
quoteCount	integer	Number of quote posts

Profile

Field	Type	Description
type	string	Always profile for profile records
did	string	Decentralised identifier of the account
handle	string	Bluesky handle
displayName	string	Display name of the account
followersCount	integer	Number of followers
postsCount	integer	Number of posts published
url	string	Public bsky.app link to the profile

How to use it

1. Click Try for free / Start on the Actor page. It runs with empty input {} and returns 50 posts, so you can see real data before configuring anything.
2. Choose a mode: search_posts, author_feed, search_profiles or profile.
3. Fill in query (for searches) or handle (for a single account), pick sort and maxResults.
4. Run it, then export the dataset to CSV, JSON, Excel, XML, or pull it straight from the Apify API or a webhook into your own system.

Input

{
  "mode": "search_posts",
  "query": "apify",
  "sort": "latest",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search_posts	search_posts, author_feed, search_profiles, profile
query	string	-	Search query for post/profile search
handle	string	-	Bluesky handle or DID
sort	string	latest	latest or top for post search
maxResults	integer	50	Number of items to return, 1-1000

Input examples

Example 1 - track a keyword across Bluesky

{
  "mode": "search_posts",
  "query": "apify",
  "sort": "latest",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Example 2 - pull one account's latest posts

{
  "mode": "author_feed",
  "handle": "bsky.app",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Example 3 - discover profiles by topic

{
  "mode": "search_profiles",
  "query": "open source",
  "maxResults": 20
}

Example 4 - fetch a single profile

{
  "mode": "profile",
  "handle": "bsky.app"
}

Use cases

• Social listening - watch mentions of your brand, product or campaign hashtag in near real time.
• Brand and market research - measure how a topic is discussed, and with what engagement.
• AI and RAG datasets - build clean, text-plus-metadata corpora from public Bluesky posts.
• Academic research - collect reproducible public social data without account credentials.
• Trend analysis - sort by top to see what actually resonates on a keyword.
• Competitor monitoring - track a rival's author feed, posting cadence and engagement.
• Creator discovery - find profiles by topic and rank them by follower and post counts.

Integrations

Connect this Actor to the rest of your stack:

• Zapier, Make and n8n for no-code automations
• Slack alerts when new matching posts appear
• Google Sheets for live dashboards and manual review
• Airbyte for warehouse loading
• LangChain and other LLM frameworks for RAG pipelines
• REST API and webhooks for custom backends

You can also schedule runs (hourly, daily, weekly) directly in Apify, so your dataset keeps refreshing without you touching it.

Pricing

Pay Per Event - you only pay for data that is actually returned:

• $0.005 per post returned
• $0.010 per profile returned
• $0.00005 per Actor start

No monthly minimum for the Actor itself, no charge for empty results.

FAQ

Do I need a Bluesky account or API key? No. The Actor uses public AT Protocol endpoints on api.bsky.app, which require no login and no key.

Is this legal? It reads only public data from Bluesky's public API, with no login and no authentication bypass. As always, you are responsible for how you use the data - check Bluesky's terms and applicable privacy law (for example GDPR) for your use case.

How fresh is the data? It is fetched live from the AT Protocol API at run time, so results reflect the state of Bluesky at the moment the run executes. Schedule the Actor to keep a dataset continuously up to date.

Can I get a specific user's posts? Yes. Use mode: "author_feed" with their handle (or DID) to get their latest posts, up to maxResults.

Are there rate limits? The public AT Protocol API applies its own rate limits. Keep maxResults within the supported 1-1000 range and space out very large scheduled runs if you are pulling heavy volumes.

Will it break like HTML scrapers do? It targets a documented, versioned API rather than page markup, so UI redesigns on bsky.app do not affect it.

How much does a typical run cost? A default run returning 50 posts costs 50 x $0.005 plus the $0.00005 start event. You are never charged for posts or profiles that are not returned.

What formats can I export? CSV, JSON, Excel and XML from the Apify console, or straight through the Apify API and webhooks.

Troubleshooting

Problem	Fix
Empty dataset on a search	The query may have no public matches. Try a broader query, or switch sort from top to latest.
Fewer items than maxResults	Bluesky simply had fewer matching public items. You are only billed for what is returned.
Error on author_feed or profile	Check the handle is exact (for example bsky.app, not @bsky.app) or use the account DID.
query seems ignored	query only applies to search_posts and search_profiles. author_feed and profile use handle.
Run is slow on large maxResults	Large pulls page through the API. Split into several smaller runs or schedule them.
Not sure the Actor works	Run it with empty input {} - it succeeds with no configuration and returns 50 posts.