Bluesky Scraper & Social Listener — Posts, Mentions & Keyword Alerts

Scrape and monitor Bluesky posts by account or keyword using the official AT Protocol API — no browser scraping, no Cloudflare risk, no DOM breakage. Schedule it daily and get only the posts you haven't seen yet. Built for brand monitoring, competitor tracking, and social listening pipelines.

Primary keywords: Bluesky scraper · Bluesky social listening · Bluesky monitoring · Bluesky keyword search · AT Protocol posts API

What it does

• Monitor any Bluesky account — pass one or more handles and export their recent posts as clean JSON. No login required.
• Search the whole network by keyword or hashtag — track brand mentions, competitors, or trends across all of Bluesky (app password required).
• Alert mode — remember what you've already delivered and output only new posts on each run. Schedule it for a daily diff of fresh activity.
• Agent-ready — call it from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client to give your AI agent live Bluesky data.

How it works

1. You provide handles (to monitor accounts) and/or a searchQuery (to search by keyword).
2. For account monitoring, the Actor reads the public AT Protocol AppView (public.api.bsky.app → app.bsky.feed.getAuthorFeed) — anonymous, read-only, no credentials.
3. For keyword search, it authenticates with your Bluesky App Password and calls app.bsky.feed.searchPosts across the network.
4. Each post is flattened into a clean dataset record with author, text, engagement counts, and embeds.
5. With alert mode on, post IDs from previous runs are remembered (per handle/query combination, for 90 days) and already-delivered posts are skipped before they're ever charged.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
handles	array	one of handles/search	Bluesky handles to monitor — e.g. apify.com, paulg.bsky.social. No @ needed.
searchQuery	string	one of handles/search	Keyword, phrase, or hashtag to search across the network.
identifier	string	only for search	Your Bluesky handle or email (for authenticated search).
appPassword	string	only for search	Bluesky App Password (not your main password) — Settings → Privacy and Security → App Passwords.
maxRecords	integer	no	Max posts to output and charge (default: 200, max: 10,000).
alertMode	boolean	no	Output only posts not seen in previous runs (default: false).
includeReplies	boolean	no	Include reply posts, not just top-level posts and reposts (default: false).

Example — monitor accounts (no credentials):

{
    "handles": ["apify.com", "ycombinator.com"],
    "maxRecords": 500,
    "alertMode": true,
    "includeReplies": false
}

Example — keyword search (credentials required):

{
    "searchQuery": "#buildinpublic saas",
    "identifier": "yourname.bsky.social",
    "appPassword": "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx",
    "maxRecords": 200,
    "alertMode": false
}

Output fields

Each post is one dataset item. These are the exact fields returned:

Field	Type	Description
postId	string	Content ID (CID) of the post — stable unique identifier.
uri	string	AT Protocol URI (at://did:plc:.../app.bsky.feed.post/...).
url	string	Public bsky.app permalink to the post.
authorHandle	string	Author's Bluesky handle (e.g. apify.com).
authorDisplayName	string	Author's display name.
authorDid	string	Author's decentralized identifier (DID).
text	string	Full post text.
langs	array	Declared language codes (e.g. ["en"]).
createdAt	string	When the author created the post (ISO 8601).
indexedAt	string	When the AppView indexed the post (ISO 8601).
likeCount	integer	Number of likes.
repostCount	integer	Number of reposts.
replyCount	integer	Number of replies.
quoteCount	integer	Number of quote posts.
isReply	boolean	Whether the post is a reply to another post.
embeds	array	Image embeds ({type, alt}) or link cards ({type, uri, title}).

Example item:

{
    "postId": "bafyreih...",
    "uri": "at://did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb2e7y6lic2z",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/apify.com/post/3lb2e7y6lic2z",
    "authorHandle": "apify.com",
    "authorDisplayName": "Apify",
    "authorDid": "did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur",
    "text": "Introducing our new MCP server — connect any Apify Actor to Claude or Cursor in one line.",
    "langs": ["en"],
    "createdAt": "2026-06-10T14:23:00.000Z",
    "indexedAt": "2026-06-10T14:23:01.521Z",
    "likeCount": 142,
    "repostCount": 38,
    "replyCount": 12,
    "quoteCount": 4,
    "isReply": false,
    "embeds": [{"type": "link", "uri": "https://apify.com/mcp", "title": "Apify MCP Server"}]
}

Use cases

• Brand & social media manager — track every mention of your brand or product across Bluesky with a keyword search, and get a daily alert-mode digest of new conversations.
• Competitor analyst — monitor your competitors' handles and watch what they post, how often, and what gets engagement.
• Growth / founder (build-in-public) — search #buildinpublic or your niche keywords to find prospects, partners, and trends in real time.
• Researcher / journalist — export a clean JSON dataset of posts on any topic for analysis, with engagement counts and timestamps.
• AI agent builder — feed live Bluesky data into a Claude/Cursor agent via MCP for summarization, sentiment, or trend detection.

Setting up daily alerts (alert mode + Apify Schedules)

1. Set your handles or search query and enable alertMode: true.
2. Create an Apify Schedule to run the Actor daily.
3. Add a webhook integration: email, Slack, Make/Zapier, or direct to your database.
4. Each run outputs only posts that previous runs haven't already delivered — and only those new posts are charged.

Alert history is keyed per handle/query combination. Changing the handles or query starts a fresh history (by design). Remembered post IDs are pruned automatically after 90 days.

Pricing — $1 per 1,000 posts

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. There is no subscription and no monthly fee — you pay only for the posts you actually receive.

Event	Price	When charged
bluesky-post	$0.001	Once per post written to the dataset

• $1 = 1,000 posts. A run that returns 50 posts costs $0.05.
• In alert mode, already-seen posts are skipped before the charge call — they are never billed.
• A run that finds no posts charges nothing.

Use from Claude, Cursor & AI agents (MCP)

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/sse?actors=bikram07/bluesky-social-listener",
            "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"
            }
        }
    }
}

Ask your agent: "What has @apify.com posted on Bluesky in the last 7 days? Summarize the themes."

Or via API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/bikram07~bluesky-social-listener/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"handles": ["apify.com"], "maxRecords": 50}'

What it does NOT do (limitations)

• Keyword/hashtag search needs an App Password. Bluesky's searchPosts endpoint is authenticated; monitoring specific accounts by handle does not need credentials.
• No DMs, no private accounts, no follower graphs. It returns public posts only — text, engagement counts, and embeds — not direct messages or private data.
• No sentiment analysis or charts built in. It delivers structured post data; analysis (sentiment, summaries, dashboards) is up to your pipeline or AI agent.
• Engagement counts are a point-in-time snapshot from when the post was fetched, not a live-updating stream.
• Not affiliated with Bluesky PBC. This is an independent tool built on the open AT Protocol.

FAQ

Is this a subscription? No. It's pay-per-event — $1 per 1,000 posts, with no monthly fee and no minimum. You pay only for the posts you receive.

How does the pricing work, and what about refunds? You're charged $0.001 each time a post is written to your dataset (so 1,000 posts = $1). In alert mode, posts you've already received are skipped before any charge, and runs that return nothing cost nothing. Billing is handled by Apify; refunds follow the Apify platform billing terms.

Does it use official APIs, or does it scrape? It uses the official AT Protocol API end to end — the public AppView (public.api.bsky.app) for account feeds and the authenticated bsky.social endpoint for keyword search. No HTML scraping, no headless browser, no anti-bot evasion.

Do I need a Bluesky account to use this? Only for keyword search (searchQuery). Monitoring specific accounts by handle works with no credentials at all — the public AppView serves that data openly.

What is an App Password and how do I create one? An App Password is a limited-access token that lets third-party apps read your account without your real password, DMs, or settings. Create one at bsky.app → Settings → Privacy and Security → App Passwords. Name it something like "Apify Social Listener".

How is this different from a one-shot Bluesky scraper? Most Bluesky scrapers run once and dump posts. This Actor is built for ongoing monitoring: alert mode + scheduling means each run only charges for new posts and delivers a clean daily diff — no deduplication code to write yourself.

Related searches

Bluesky scraper · Bluesky posts API · AT Protocol data · Bluesky social monitoring · Bluesky keyword alert · Bluesky brand monitoring · Bluesky mentions tracker · Bluesky feed export · social listening tool · bluesky.social scraper

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Built on the AT Protocol public AppView. Not affiliated with Bluesky PBC.