# Bluesky Comments Scraper (`blueskyscraper/bluesky-comments-scraper`) Actor

Scrape every reply under a Bluesky post — the whole comment tree with depth and parent, text, author, date, likes, images and links — plus the posts that quote it. Paste post URLs; big threads are opened branch by branch. Export JSON, CSV or Excel. No login, no API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/blueskyscraper/bluesky-comments-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [BlueskyScraper](https://apify.com/blueskyscraper) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Agents, MCP servers
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.70 / 1,000 posts

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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 Comments Scraper** collects the whole conversation under a Bluesky post without a login: **the post and every reply**, replies to replies at any depth, each with its `threadDepth` and `parentUri` so the tree can be rebuilt, plus the **posts that quote it**. Every row has text, author, date, likes, reposts, replies, images, video, links and hashtags. **$1 per 1,000 comments, no start fee, error rows free.**

### Tested head-to-head — 28 September 2026

![Bluesky scrapers tested head-to-head: this Actor returns search results in 2.8 s, 300 of 300 posts, 43 fields per post, follower counts included, $1 per 1,000 posts and $0.50 per 1,000 followers](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/tZJ3TnhQJ1jqUQVXq/records/bluesky-tested-2026-09-28.png)

The same requests went to this Actor and to the six most-used Bluesky scrapers on the Apify Store: 20 latest posts for `coffee`, 20 posts of @nytimes.com, 20 followers of @nytimes.com, and a 300-post deep search.

| | This Actor | The six others |
|---|---|---|
| Keyword search, 20 posts | **2.8 s** | 3.3–28.9 s |
| 300 posts asked for one keyword | **300** | 50–300 (three tested) |
| Fields in a post row | **43** | 18–32 |
| Followers export with each person's follower count | **yes, at no extra cost** | 2 of 3 tested |
| Price per 1,000 followers | **$0.50** | $1.25–3.00 |
| Price per 1,000 posts | **$1.00** | $1.00–3.00 |
| Start fee per run | **none** | 3 of 6 charge $0.004–0.005 |

### What is Bluesky Comments Scraper?

A tool for reading reactions: product launches, announcements, news posts, creator posts. Bluesky sends large threads trimmed; this Actor opens every reply that has replies of its own, branch by branch, so you get far more of the conversation than a single request returns. Paste post URLs; no account, app password or cookies needed.

| Mode | You give | You get |
|---|---|---|
| **Comments** | post URLs | the post, then every reply, most liked, newest or oldest first |
| **Quotes** | post URLs | posts that quote the post |

### What data do you get?

`url`, `text`, `createdAt`, `handle`, `displayName`, `did`, `likeCount`, `repostCount`, `replyCount`, `quoteCount`, `threadDepth` (0 = the post, 1 = direct reply, 2 = reply to a reply…), `parentUri`, `replyToHandle`, `rootUrl`, `mediaType`, `images[]`, `video`, `externalLink`, `hashtags`, `mentions`, `links`, `language`, `labels`, `sourceInput`.

### How much does it cost?

| Row | Price |
|---|---|
| **Comment or post** | **$0.001** — $1 per 1,000 |

No start fee, no proxy charge, and a post that is deleted or unavailable is a free error row.

### ⬇️ Input

```json
{
    "mode": "thread",
    "postUrls": ["https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"],
    "replySort": "likes",
    "maxResultsPerInput": 1000
}
```

### ⬆️ Output

```json
{
    "type": "post",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6ovfftinx2m",
    "text": "• Anyone can create and subscribe to feeds. There are 50k+ feeds here, like posts from mutuals, news, or cat photos!…",
    "handle": "bsky.app",
    "createdAt": "2024-10-17T07:07:26.071Z",
    "likeCount": 3254,
    "threadDepth": 1,
    "parentUri": "at://did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6oveex3ii2l",
    "replyToHandle": "bsky.app",
    "source": "reply"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Launch and campaign feedback** — every reaction to your announcement, sorted by likes.
- **Sentiment analysis** — the full reply tree as clean text with language tags.
- **Community management** — who replies, what they ask, which questions get the most likes.

### ❓ FAQ

#### Is it legal to scrape Bluesky comments?

It reads only public replies Bluesky shows anyone without a login, and skips authors who asked not to be shown to logged-out visitors. Replies can contain personal data protected by laws like the GDPR — have a lawful reason to process it.

#### Why do I get fewer replies than the counter shows?

The counter includes replies that were deleted, hidden by the author, or written by accounts that are blocked or hidden from logged-out visitors. Everything that is publicly readable is collected.

### You might also like

| Actor | What it does |
|---|---|
| [Bluesky Scraper](https://apify.com/blueskyscraper/bluesky-scraper) | All twelve modes in one Actor |
| [Bluesky Posts Scraper](https://apify.com/blueskyscraper/bluesky-posts-scraper) | Keyword and hashtag search, account posts, feeds |
| [Bluesky Followers Scraper](https://apify.com/blueskyscraper/bluesky-followers-scraper) | Followers, following, likers, reposters, starter pack members |
| [Bluesky Profile Scraper](https://apify.com/blueskyscraper/bluesky-profile-scraper) | Profiles with follower counts, bio e-mails and links |

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

<b>Posts</b> — an account's own posts. <b>Search</b> — public posts for a keyword, hashtag or phrase. <b>Profiles</b> — followers count, bio, links, emails. <b>Followers / Following</b> — an account's audience. <b>Comments</b> — a post and every reply under it. <b>Quotes / Likers / Reposters</b> — who reacted to a post. <b>Account search</b> — people and brands by keyword. <b>Custom feed</b> and <b>List or starter pack</b> — paste the URL into <i>Bluesky URLs</i>.

## `postUrls` (type: `array`):

For Comments, Quotes, Likers and Reposters: <code>https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l</code>. An <code>at://</code> URI works too.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Any bsky.app link, routed automatically: profiles, posts, <b>custom feeds</b> (<code>…/profile/\<handle>/feed/\<name></code>), <b>lists</b> (<code>…/lists/\<id></code>), <b>starter packs</b> (<code>bsky.app/starter-pack/…</code>), search and hashtag pages.

## `maxResultsPerInput` (type: `integer`):

Cap for each input, not for the whole run. Search pages back in time for Latest; Top returns up to 100 posts per keyword (all Bluesky shows a visitor who is not logged in).

## `postedAfter` (type: `string`):

<code>YYYY-MM-DD</code>. Older posts are dropped; Posts and Search stop paging once they reach them.

## `postedBefore` (type: `string`):

<code>YYYY-MM-DD</code>. With <i>Only posts after</i> this gives a date window.

## `languages` (type: `array`):

Keep only posts written in these languages, ISO codes: <code>en</code>, <code>de</code>, <code>ja</code>, <code>pt</code>. Bluesky apps tag the language of almost every post. Empty = all.

## `filterKeywords` (type: `array`):

Any mode: a post is kept when its text, hashtags or link title contain any of these words. Empty = keep everything.

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

Drop posts with fewer likes.

## `minReposts` (type: `integer`):

Drop posts with fewer reposts.

## `minReplies` (type: `integer`):

Drop posts with fewer replies.

## `includeRootPost` (type: `boolean`):

Comments mode: the first row is the post itself, then its replies.

## `replySort` (type: `string`):

Comments mode: order of replies under each post. Every reply keeps <code>threadDepth</code> and <code>parentUri</code>, so the tree can always be rebuilt.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many rows in the whole run — a hard ceiling on cost.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "thread",
  "postUrls": [
    "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerInput": 100,
  "minLikes": 0,
  "minReposts": 0,
  "minReplies": 0,
  "includeRootPost": true,
  "replySort": "likes",
  "maxItems": 10000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `rows` (type: `string`):

One row per post, profile or account; error rows explain inputs that could not be read.

# 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 = {
    "postUrls": [
        "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("blueskyscraper/bluesky-comments-scraper").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 = { "postUrls": ["https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("blueskyscraper/bluesky-comments-scraper").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 '{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"
  ]
}' |
apify call blueskyscraper/bluesky-comments-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/kUdYbqWb337ZQExKw/builds/mSVzhTlIhmCbB7fUp/openapi.json