Bluesky Job Poster Finder

Find hiring and job posting content on Bluesky using customizable search keywords. This Apify Actor searches public Bluesky posts and extracts job-related information, making it ideal for recruiters, job boards, lead generation, and market research.

Features

• Search hiring-related posts by keyword
• Extract company or author name
• Extract Bluesky handle
• Extract author profile URL
• Extract post URL
• Extract job post text
• Extract created date and time
• Extract like count
• Extract repost count
• Extract reply count
• Extract external links
• Language filtering
• Export results to Apify Dataset

Use Cases

• Job lead generation
• Recruitment
• Talent sourcing
• Job board aggregation
• Hiring trend analysis
• Competitor hiring research
• Market research
• HR automation

Input

See .actor/input_schema.json.

Example Input

{
  "searchTerms": [
    "we're hiring",
    "we are hiring",
    "now hiring",
    "join our team",
    "remote job",
    "software engineer"
  ],
  "maxPosts": 100,
  "onlyWithLinks": false,
  "language": "en",
  "sortBy": "recent"
}

Input Fields

Field	Description
searchTerms	Keywords or phrases used to search for job posts
maxPosts	Maximum number of posts to collect
onlyWithLinks	Return only posts containing external links
language	Language code (e.g. en)
sortBy	Sort by recent, likes, or reposts

Output

Each dataset item contains:

{
  "matchedSearchTerm": "we're hiring",
  "company": "Acme Inc",
  "authorName": "Acme Careers",
  "handle": "acme.bsky.social",
  "authorProfileUrl": "https://bsky.app/profile/acme.bsky.social",
  "postText": "We're hiring a Python Developer. Apply today!",
  "postUrl": "https://bsky.app/profile/acme.bsky.social/post/abc123",
  "createdAt": "2026-07-09T10:15:00Z",
  "likeCount": 48,
  "repostCount": 9,
  "replyCount": 3,
  "links": [
    "https://acme.com/careers"
  ],
  "language": "en"
}

Dataset Fields

• matchedSearchTerm
• company
• authorName
• handle
• authorProfileUrl
• postText
• postUrl
• createdAt
• likeCount
• repostCount
• replyCount
• links
• language

Local Development

Install dependencies:

$pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the Actor:

$apify run

Deploy to Apify

apify login
apify push

Notes

• Only publicly available Bluesky posts and profile information are collected.
• No Bluesky account or login is required.
• Results depend on Bluesky search availability.
• External links are extracted when available in posts.
• Please comply with Bluesky's Terms of Service when using the collected data.

License

MIT