Fediverse Scraper (Mastodon + Bluesky)
Pricing
from $1.00 / 1,000 post scrapeds
Scrape Mastodon and Bluesky profiles, posts and hashtag timelines through the platforms' official public APIs. One normalized schema across both networks. No login required.
What to scrape, one entry per line. The platform is detected automatically.
Mastodon: @user@instance, #hashtag@instance, a profile URL (https://mastodon.social/@Gargron), or a post permalink. Works on any Mastodon instance, not just mastodon.social.
Bluesky: a handle (bsky.app, alice.bsky.social), a did:plc:..., a profile or post URL (https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app), or an at:// URI. People search: bsky:actors:climate.
Not supported: Bluesky keyword/hashtag search. Bluesky refuses unauthenticated search requests from datacenter IPs and this Actor never asks for your password. Use a Mastodon hashtag target instead.
[ "@astraedus@mastodon.social", "@Gargron@mastodon.social", "#opensource@mastodon.social", "bsky.app"]both (default) returns a profile row for every account target plus post rows for everything. profiles returns account rows only - for a hashtag target, that means the accounts posting under it. posts returns post rows only.
Upper bound on post rows collected for each target. Pagination stops as soon as this is reached, so a lower number is a cheaper, faster run. Raise it for a full backfill.
Optional ISO date (2026-01-01) or timestamp. Posts older than this are skipped and pagination stops early once the feed passes the cut-off. Leave empty for no date limit.
Include posts that are replies to someone else. Off by default, because most users want original posts.
Include content the account boosted (Mastodon) or reposted (Bluesky) rather than wrote. Such rows are flagged with isRepost: true and credited to the original author.
Populate the media array with image, video and link-card URLs plus their alt text. Turn off for a smaller, text-only dataset.
Attach the untouched API object to every row as raw. Useful when you need a field this Actor does not normalize; makes the dataset several times larger.
Instance used for targets written without one, such as a bare #hashtag.