Bluesky Posts Scraper, No Login Needed

🦋 What is Bluesky Posts?

Collect what people say on Bluesky: queries or handles go in, a table of posts comes out, with hashtags, quotes and a URL for each one. It reads the AppView API, so no app password is needed.

• Brand monitoring: follow every mention of your company or product
• Social listening: measure what people say about a topic, with likes and reposts as engagement
• Account tracking: archive the posts of competitors, journalists or politicians
• Research: collect posts in a date window and a language for analysis

✨ Why use this Actor?

• ✅ No login needed: public API, so no Bluesky account and no app password at risk
• ✅ Search and accounts: queries and handles in the same run
• ✅ Filters: since, until, lang and sort (latest or top)
• ✅ Ready for analysis: links and hashtags extracted, reply flag and engagement counts on every row
• ✅ Cheap: 0.80 USD per 1,000 posts; failed inputs are not charged

📦 What data can you get with Bluesky Posts?

📝 Post text	📅 Created at	👤 Author handle, name and DID
❤️ Likes	🔁 Reposts and quotes	💬 Replies
🌐 Languages	🔗 Links	#️⃣ Hashtags
↩️ Reply flag	🧭 Post URL and URI	🔎 Query or handle it came from

🚀 How to use Bluesky Posts

Bluesky Posts works in a few clicks, no coding needed:

1. Create a free Apify account (the free plan includes 5 USD of monthly credit).
2. Open Bluesky Posts and click Try for free.
3. Enter search words or Bluesky handles, optionally a date window and a language.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish (most runs take seconds).
5. Download your data as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or send it straight to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or your AI agent.

⬇️ Input

Give queries, handles or both. Each source returns up to maxItemsPerSource posts (default 100).

Search

Words such as web scraping or "exact phrase"; sort picks the latest (default) or the top posts.

Handles

Names such as bsky.app; the Actor reads that profile's own feed.

Dates and language

since and until take a date (YYYY-MM-DD); lang a two-letter code such as en.

Field	Type	What it does	Default
Search queries (queries)	array	Full-text post search, one search per query.	["web scraping"]
Handles (handles)	array	Account handles whose own posts are read (replies left out), e.g.
Sort (search) (sort)	string	Order of search results: "latest" (newest posts first) or "top" (most liked and reposted first).	"latest"
Posted since (since)	string	Keep posts on or after this date, e.g.
Posted before (until)	string	Keep posts before this date (exclusive), e.g.
Language (search) (lang)	string	Two-letter language code, e.g.
Maximum posts per query or handle (maxItemsPerSource)	integer	Maximum number of posts returned for each search query or each account handle (1 to 2,000).	100
Maximum retries (maxRetries)	integer	Retries per request with exponential backoff on network errors, 429 and 5xx.	3

Input example

{
    "queries": [
        "web scraping"
    ],
    "sort": "latest",
    "maxItemsPerSource": 30
}

⬆️ Output

Every post becomes one row. The run summary (OUTPUT) lists every query and handle with the posts found and the error if one failed.

Output example

One row of the dataset (search "web scraping", a real run of 2026-10-16):

{
    "uri": "at://did:plc:6nkng5626orolzuyvuzocl4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxxivr4tvr2l",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/mmccue.bsky.social/post/3mxxivr4tvr2l",
    "text": "This is not ok.\n\nwww.niemanlab.org/2026/10/meta...",
    "createdAt": "2026-10-16T02:13:56.595Z",
    "authorHandle": "mmccue.bsky.social",
    "authorName": "Mike McCue",
    "authorDid": "did:plc:6nkng5626orolzuyvuzocl4e",
    "likeCount": 6,
    "repostCount": 5,
    "replyCount": 2,
    "quoteCount": 1,
    "langs": [
        "en"
    ],
    "isReply": false,
    "links": [
        "https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/"
    ],
    "hashtags": [],
    "source": "web scraping",
    "sourceKind": "search"
}

View the results as a table or JSON in the Output tab and download them as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML or RSS, all fields or only those you pick.

💰 How much does Bluesky Posts cost?

Bluesky Posts is priced per event: 0.8 USD per 1,000 items (0.0008 USD per item), with no monthly rental. Whatever lands in the dataset is billed; failed queries and handles cost nothing.

You get	You pay
100 items	0.08 USD
1,000 items	0.8 USD
10,000 items	8 USD
100,000 items	80 USD

💡 Apify's free plan gives you 5 USD of credit every month, enough for about 6,250 items at no cost. Set a spending limit per run and the Actor stops there.

⚖️ Bluesky Posts vs. the alternatives

	Bluesky Posts	Login-based scrapers	Reading the app
No account or app password	✅	❌	–
Search and handles in one run	✅	varies	❌
Links and hashtags extracted	✅	varies	❌
Export, schedule, API and MCP	✅	✅	❌

🔌 Integrations, API and MCP

Connect Bluesky Posts to your AI agent (MCP)

Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client direct access to Bluesky Posts through the Apify MCP server. Add this URL to its settings:

https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=bepolabs/bluesky-posts

For Claude Desktop, add it under mcpServers in claude_desktop_config.json:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "bluesky-posts": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
                "--actors",
                "bepolabs/bluesky-posts"
            ],
            "env": {
                "APIFY_TOKEN": "<your Apify API token>"
            }
        }
    }
}

Then ask: "Find the latest Bluesky posts about our product name from the last 7 days and list the ones with more than 10 likes."

Run it from your code

Python (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("bepolabs/bluesky-posts").call(run_input={"queries":["web scraping"],"sort":"latest","maxItemsPerSource":30})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

JavaScript (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('bepolabs/bluesky-posts').call({"queries":["web scraping"],"sort":"latest","maxItemsPerSource":30});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

No-code integrations

Send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable, HubSpot, Make, Zapier, n8n and more from the Integrations tab, start runs on a schedule, or trigger your own endpoint with a webhook when a run finishes. The Apify API gives you full control over runs and datasets.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Bluesky account?

No. The Actor reads Bluesky's public AppView API without login.

How far back can I go?

As far as Bluesky's search and feeds return; use since and until for a window and maxItemsPerSource for the amount.

Are replies included?

Yes; isReply marks them, so you can filter them out.

Is it legal to use Bluesky Posts?

The Actor uses Bluesky's open API. Names and texts can be personal data: store and use them under the privacy rules that apply to you (for example the GDPR) and Bluesky's terms.

What if something is missing or does not work?

Open an issue on the Issues tab; we read each one and reply. Feature requests are welcome too.

💬 Your feedback

Tell us what Bluesky Posts should add on the Issues tab or leave a review; your notes decide what we work on next.

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