# 🏆 Best Cheapest Truth Social Posts Scraper 🏆 (`claygenius/cheapest-truth-social-posts-scraper`) Actor

Scrapes posts (truths) from any Truth Social profile via the public API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/claygenius/cheapest-truth-social-posts-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Muhammad Shamshad Aslam](https://apify.com/claygenius) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, AI, Social media
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 96.3% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.

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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

## Truth Social Posts Scraper

Extract posts ("truths") from any public Truth Social profile — fast, reliable, and API-based. No fragile HTML parsing: this actor talks directly to Truth Social's JSON API, so you get complete, structured data every run.

Collect posts from any prominent public profile for political monitoring, market research, sentiment analysis, news alerting, and data science.

### Features

- ✅ **Scrape any public profile** — just provide the username
- ✅ **Flexible username input** — `exampleUser`, `@exampleUser`, or the full profile URL all work
- ✅ **Full post data** — content, timestamps, engagement counts (likes, retruths, replies), media attachments, hashtags, mentions, quote & retruth data, account details
- ✅ **Filters** — only replies, only media posts, exclude pinned posts
- ✅ **Clean content mode** — strips HTML and returns plain text
- ✅ **Pagination** — scrape any number of posts, or continue from a specific post ID
- ✅ **Built-in rate-limit handling** — automatic backoff and retries on 429s and blocks

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `username` | string | `exampleUser` | Username, @username, or profile URL |
| `maxPosts` | integer | `20` | Maximum number of posts to scrape |
| `onlyReplies` | boolean | `false` | Only fetch replies |
| `onlyMedia` | boolean | `false` | Only fetch posts containing images/videos |
| `excludePinned` | boolean | `false` | Skip pinned posts |
| `cleanContent` | boolean | `true` | Strip HTML tags from content |
| `startFromId` | string | — | Fetch posts older than this post ID |
| `proxyConfig` | object | Residential | Proxy settings (recommended: Apify residential) |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "username": "exampleUser",
  "maxPosts": 50,
  "cleanContent": true
}
```

### Output

Each post is saved to the dataset as a full structured object:

```json
{
  "id": "116908781708997194",
  "created_at": "2026-07-12T20:00:39.652Z",
  "content": "Thanks to everyone who came out today — more updates coming soon...",
  "url": "https://truthsocial.com/@exampleUser/116908781708997194",
  "replies_count": 2435,
  "reblogs_count": 5407,
  "favourites_count": 22713,
  "username": "exampleUser",
  "media_attachments": [],
  "tags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "account": {
    "id": "107780257626128497",
    "display_name": "Example User",
    "followers_count": 12888285,
    "verified": true
  }
}
```

Key fields per post:

- **Post**: `id`, `created_at`, `content`, `url`, `language`, `visibility`, `sensitive`
- **Engagement**: `replies_count`, `reblogs_count` (retruths), `favourites_count` (likes)
- **Media**: `media_attachments` — image/video URLs with previews
- **Relations**: `reblog` (retruthed post), `quote` (quoted post), `in_reply_to_id`
- **Account**: full profile of the author — follower counts, bio, avatar, verification status

### Use cases

- **Political monitoring** — track statements from political figures in near real-time
- **News & media** — capture newsworthy posts the moment they're published
- **Market research** — analyze engagement, trends, and audience reactions
- **Data science** — build datasets for NLP, sentiment analysis, and social research
- **Archiving** — keep a structured historical record of any profile

### Incremental scraping (no duplicates)

To only collect new posts on recurring runs:

1. After each run, note the newest post `id` from the dataset.
2. Posts are returned newest-first, so on the next run compare against your stored ID downstream, **or** use `startFromId` to page backwards through history.

Combine with Apify **Schedules** + **webhooks** for automated monitoring pipelines.

### Tips

- Runs work without a proxy in most cases; if you see repeated blocks, enable the prefilled **residential proxy** in the input.
- Export results as CSV, Excel, or JSON straight from the dataset tab, or pull them via the Apify API for integration with your own systems.

# Actor input Schema

## `username` (type: `string`):

Username to scrape (e.g. TruthSocial, realDonaldTrump). Accepts: username, @username, or https://truthsocial.com/@username

## `maxPosts` (type: `integer`):

Max posts to scrape from the timeline

## `onlyReplies` (type: `boolean`):

Only scrape replies instead of regular posts

## `onlyMedia` (type: `boolean`):

Only scrape posts that contain images or videos

## `excludePinned` (type: `boolean`):

Skip pinned posts at the top of the profile

## `cleanContent` (type: `boolean`):

Strip HTML tags from post content, output plain text

## `startFromId` (type: `string`):

Fetch posts OLDER than this post ID (the ID itself is excluded). Leave empty to start from newest.

## `proxyConfig` (type: `object`):

Optional proxy. Residential recommended if you hit Cloudflare blocks.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "username": "TruthSocial",
  "maxPosts": 10,
  "onlyReplies": false,
  "onlyMedia": false,
  "excludePinned": false,
  "cleanContent": true,
  "proxyConfig": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "username": "TruthSocial",
    "maxPosts": 10,
    "proxyConfig": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("claygenius/cheapest-truth-social-posts-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 = {
    "username": "TruthSocial",
    "maxPosts": 10,
    "proxyConfig": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("claygenius/cheapest-truth-social-posts-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 '{
  "username": "TruthSocial",
  "maxPosts": 10,
  "proxyConfig": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call claygenius/cheapest-truth-social-posts-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,claygenius/cheapest-truth-social-posts-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/Tc3ux35acdnzRf2Ic/builds/3XjYVgmsjGsn9XY4K/openapi.json