Threads Scraper — Posts, Profiles, Replies & Search

Scrape public Threads posts with no login: the latest posts, replies or reposts of a profile, one post with its replies, or the top posts for a keyword. Each post is one clean JSON row with text, date, likes, replies, reposts, media, the quoted post and the author with followers.

Use it for social listening, brand and creator research, or AI pipelines. The smallest run is one username, such as zuck, with 20 posts: it finishes in under 10 seconds and costs $0.032 on the Free plan.

Table of contents

• What it does
• How it works
• Quick start
• Use cases
• Input
• Output
• Pricing
• Limits
• Switching from another Threads scraper
• API, export and integrations
• Troubleshooting
• FAQ
• Related Actors
• Support

What it does

Threads Scraper reads public pages of threads.com the way a logged-out visitor sees them. It needs no account, no cookies and no API token. It has three modes:

Mode	You give	You get
profile	Usernames or profile links	The latest posts of each profile (or its replies or reposts tab), with the author's follower count
post	Post links (threads.com or threads.net)	The post, the author's own thread below it, and the replies Threads shows without login
search	Keywords or hashtags	The top posts Threads shows for each keyword

A profile, post or search with no public posts returns one not_found row with the reason. It does not disappear silently, so you can see what happened to every input.

Good fit

• Track what a brand, creator or competitor posts on Threads, with likes, replies and reposts.
• Get only new posts since your last run with Posted after, for example 7 days.
• Collect a post and its replies for sentiment or discussion analysis.
• Find top posts about a topic or hashtag.
• Feed clean, typed Threads rows into an AI agent, a spreadsheet, a database, Slack or Notion.

Not a fit

• Only public data. No DMs, no private profiles, nothing that needs login.
• No view counts: Threads does not show them without login.
• No followers or following lists and no account search: they need login.
• No "recent" search and no date-sorted search: threads.com redirects these to login.
• Replies of a post: only the first page Threads shows without login, usually 10–15. More pages need login.
• Some large profiles are shown only to logged-in visitors. They return not_found. The Actor does not try to get around this.
• Counts are a snapshot at fetch time.

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How it works

1. You give usernames, post links or keywords. The Actor opens the matching public threads.com pages as a logged-out visitor, through Apify Proxy.
2. It reads the posts on those pages and loads more pages of a profile until it has your number of posts, reaches Posted after, or the public feed ends. Duplicates are dropped.
3. It saves one row per post to the Dataset, one not_found or error row for every input without posts, and a run summary in RUN_SUMMARY. If you chose a connector, a short summary also goes to Slack or Notion.

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Quick start

1. Open the Input tab. Mode is already Profile posts (box 1 in the picture).

2. Keep zuck in Usernames, or add your own usernames or profile links (box 2).

3. Keep Max posts per input at 20, the prefill and default (box 3).

4. Click Start.

5. Open the Posts view in the Output tab and check the follower count, text, date, likes, replies and reposts (box 5).

   

Expected result: the 20 newest posts of the profile, one row per post.

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Use cases

Buyer job	Input path	Output entity	Key fields	Next integration
Brand or creator monitoring	mode: profile, usernames, postedAfter: "7 days"	post	text, createdAt, likes, replies, reposts	Weekly schedule, Google Sheets or Slack
Reply and repost activity of an account	mode: profile, profileTab: replies or reposts	post	text, replyToUsername, repostedPost, createdAt	Spreadsheet or database
Discussion analysis	mode: post, postUrls	post with role	role, text, replyToUsername, likes	Sentiment or topic analysis
Topic research	mode: search, queries	post	text, author.username, likes, url	AI summary, content ideas
Influencer shortlist	mode: profile, usernames	post with author	author.followers, author.verified, likes	Compare engagement per follower

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Input

Input fields

Field	Plain name	Type	Required	Default / prefill	Allowed values	Effect	Example
mode	Mode	string	no	profile	profile, post, search	Which list is read when several are filled: profile (default) reads all of them, post or search only its own	"post"
usernames	Usernames	string[]	for profile	prefill ["zuck"]	up to 50; name, @name or a threads.com / threads.net profile link	Profiles to read	["zuck", "@natgeo"]
postUrls	Post URLs	string[]	for post	none	up to 50; …/@user/post/CODE on threads.com or threads.net	Posts to read	["https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DeZtp-TkQHh"]
queries	Search keywords	string[]	for search	none	up to 50; up to 100 characters each	One search per line	["web scraping", "#coffee"]
maxItems	Max posts per input	integer	no	20 (prefill 20)	1–500	Cap for each username, post URL or keyword	200
maxTotalItems	Max posts per run (optional)	integer	no	none	1–25,000	Cap for the whole run; paid rows (posts and not_found) count toward it	1000
includeReplies	Include replies (post mode)	boolean	no	true		Post mode: also save the author's thread and the replies; off = only the post	false
profileTab	Profile tab (profile mode)	string	no	threads	threads, replies, reposts	Which profile tab is read. replies and reposts give the first page only	"replies"
postedAfter	Posted after (optional)	string	no	none	date 2026-10-01 or a period like 7 days, 2 weeks, 24 hours	Keep only newer posts (profile and search)	"7 days"
postedBefore	Posted before (optional)	string	no	none	same as above	Keep only older posts (profile and search)	"2026-11-01"
proxyConfiguration	Proxy	object	no	Apify Proxy (datacenter)	Apify Proxy groups or your own proxies	Where requests come from	{"useApifyProxy": true}
deliveryConnector	Send results to (optional)	string	no	none	one of your MCP connectors in Apify Console	Where the short run summary goes	Slack or Notion connector
deliveryTarget	Notion page or channel (optional)	string	no	none	Notion page link or Slack channel ID	Where in that service the summary goes	C0123456789

With mode: profile (the default) every filled list is read; post or search reads only its own list. Duplicate values are removed, also when the same profile is written two ways (for example @NatGeo and its link).

A value that cannot be read, such as bad name!!, does not stop the run. It becomes one free error row with errorCode: INVALID_INPUT and the reason, and the other values are scraped. The run fails with INVALID_INPUT only when nothing usable is left; then no requests are made and only the start is charged.

Interacting settings

When	Input A	Input B	Effective behavior
Post mode	postUrls	maxItems	The post, its thread and its replies together count toward maxItems
Post mode	includeReplies: false	maxItems	Only the post itself, one row per URL
Search mode	queries	maxItems above 30	Threads shows only the top ~25–30 posts per keyword; add more specific keywords to get more posts
Profile mode	usernames	maxItems	Reading stops at the end of the profile's public feed, even if maxItems is higher
Profile mode	postedAfter	maxItems	Reading stops at the first older post that is not pinned; filtered posts are free
Post mode	postedAfter / postedBefore		Not used: the requested posts are returned as they are
Any mode	maxTotalItems	maxItems	Each input gets up to maxItems; the run stops when maxTotalItems is reached and the remaining inputs are marked not_processed

Input examples

New posts of several profiles in the last 7 days

{
  "mode": "profile",
  "usernames": ["zuck", "natgeo", "https://www.threads.com/@nasa"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "postedAfter": "7 days"
}

Expected output: up to 100 post rows per profile from the last 7 days, with text, likes, media and author.followers.

A post with its replies

{
  "mode": "post",
  "postUrls": ["https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DeZtp-TkQHh"],
  "includeReplies": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Expected output: one row with role: target, rows with role: self_thread for the author's thread, and rows with role: reply.

Search with a run cap

{
  "mode": "search",
  "queries": ["web scraping", "#coffee"],
  "maxItems": 30,
  "maxTotalItems": 50
}

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Output

Every row goes to the default Dataset. The Posts view in the Output tab shows the main columns. The run summary is in the key-value store as RUN_SUMMARY.

Output fields

Field	Meaning	Type	Can be empty?
status	complete (a post), not_found or error	string	no
statusReason, errorCode	Why a not_found or error row has no post	string	null on posts
postId, code, url	Threads post ID, short code and link	string	null on status rows
mode, input	Mode and the username, post URL or keyword this row came from	string	no
role	profile_post, search_result, target, self_thread or reply	string	null on status rows
author	username, fullName, userId, verified, followers, profilePicUrl	object	followers is only filled in profile mode, else null
text	Post text	string	can be empty for media-only posts
createdAt	Publish time, ISO 8601 UTC	string
likes, replies, reposts, quotes, shares	Counts at fetch time	number	null when Threads does not show it, never a fake 0
mediaType	text, photo, video, carousel or other	string
media	Photos and videos: type, url, width, height, thumbnailUrl	object[]	empty for text posts
quotedPost, repostedPost	postId, url, username, text, createdAt	object	null when not a quote or repost
isReply, replyToUsername	Reply marker and who it replies to	boolean, string
linkUrl, linkTitle	Attached link (Threads redirect removed) and its title	string	null without a link
topic	Topic tag	string	often null
pinned	Pinned on the author's profile	boolean
fetchedAt	When the row was scraped, ISO 8601 UTC	string	no

Media links are signed by Threads and stop working after some days. Download the files soon if you need them.

Status rows

status	When	errorCode
not_found	The profile does not exist or is shown only to logged-in visitors	NOT_FOUND
not_found	The profile is private	PRIVATE_PROFILE
not_found	The profile has no public posts	NO_POSTS
not_found	The post was deleted or is not public	NOT_FOUND
not_found	The keyword has no results	NO_RESULTS
error	A username, URL or keyword cannot be read (free)	INVALID_INPUT
error	Threads failed or refused the request after retries (free)	RATE_LIMITED, BLOCKED, LOGIN_REQUIRED, SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE

A source failure is never shown as "no results". It is an error row, and the run status says so.

Run summary (RUN_SUMMARY)

Field	Meaning
status	COMPLETE, PARTIAL, NOT_FOUND, NO_RESULTS, ERROR, INVALID_INPUT or CANCELLED
partialReason	For PARTIAL: CHARGE_LIMIT, SOURCE_ERROR, SAFETY_LIMIT or CANCELLED
message	One plain-English sentence about the result
counts	inputs, postRows, chargedPostRows, emptyResultEvents, notFoundRows, errorRows, duplicatesSkipped
inputs	One entry per input (input, status, posts, reason): complete, partial, not_found, no_results, error or not_processed. reason is MAX_TOTAL_ITEMS when the run cap stopped it, INVALID_INPUT: … for a value that could not be read
warnings	Plain-English notes, for example the first-page-of-replies limit or a field that was not used
delivery	Only with a connector: status (delivered, skipped or failed) and the reason

Send results to Slack or Notion

Pick your connector in the optional deliveryConnector field. After the run saves its data, the Actor posts a short summary (up to 25 rows and a link to the full dataset) there. Put a Notion page link or a Slack channel ID in deliveryTarget: in Notion every run is added on top of that one page, so your workspace does not fill up with new pages. Without a page link, Notion delivery is skipped and the log says so. A delivery error never fails the run and costs nothing extra. Connect a service once in Apify Console → MCP connectors.

Output example

A real profile post, trimmed (long media and picture links shortened):

{
  "status": "complete",
  "statusReason": null,
  "errorCode": null,
  "postId": "4007137472223477566",
  "code": "DecNkzeCX8-",
  "url": "https://www.threads.com/@instagram/post/DecNkzeCX8-",
  "mode": "profile",
  "input": "instagram",
  "role": "profile_post",
  "author": {
    "username": "instagram",
    "fullName": "Instagram",
    "userId": "63404918397",
    "verified": false,
    "followers": 38354704,
    "profilePicUrl": "https://scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/…"
  },
  "text": "@hichiyan686 made a whole retro wall phone by hand ☎️✨",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-13T16:14:12.000Z",
  "likes": 170,
  "replies": 10,
  "reposts": 6,
  "quotes": 1,
  "shares": 2,
  "mediaType": "video",
  "media": [
    { "type": "video", "url": "https://scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/…mp4?…", "width": 720, "height": 1280, "thumbnailUrl": "https://scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/…jpg?…" }
  ],
  "quotedPost": null,
  "repostedPost": null,
  "isReply": false,
  "replyToUsername": null,
  "linkUrl": null,
  "linkTitle": null,
  "topic": null,
  "pinned": false,
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-14T15:36:27.390Z"
}

null means Threads did not provide the value. It never stands for zero.

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Pricing

You pay per event. Platform usage (compute, proxy, storage) is included in the price.

Event	Free plan	Starter (Bronze)	Scale (Silver)	Business (Gold) and higher
Post	$0.0015	$0.00135	$0.0012	$0.00105
Empty result	$0.0005	$0.0005	$0.0005	$0.0005
Actor start	$0.002	$0.002	$0.002	$0.002

• Post: one per post row saved (profile post, the target post, a thread post, a reply or a search result). So 1,000 posts cost $1.50 on the Free plan and $1.05 on Business.
• Empty result: one per input that returned no posts: a profile that does not exist, is private, has no posts or is shown only to logged-in visitors; a missing post; a search with no results. It covers the requests made for that input.
• Actor start: charged by Apify once per run, per GB of memory. The default 512 MB counts as one.
• Free: error rows (Threads failed or a value could not be read), posts dropped by the date filter, duplicate posts and duplicate inputs.

Cost examples (Free plan prices)

Scenario	Input	Charged events	Cost
Prefill	1 profile, 20 posts	start + 20 posts	$0.032
1,000 posts	5 profiles × 200	start + 1,000 posts	$1.502
Profile that does not exist	1 username	start + 1 empty result	$0.0025
Only invalid values	1 value	start	$0.002

Spending limit

Set Maximum cost per run in the run options. The Actor checks the limit before every post. When the next post does not fit, the run stops with status PARTIAL and partialReason: CHARGE_LIMIT, and keeps everything saved so far. The platform's max paid results option works the same way for the number of rows.

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Limits

• Up to 50 usernames, post URLs or keywords per run, up to 500 posts per input, and up to 25,000 posts per run with maxTotalItems.
• One run has about 4 minutes of scraping time. In tests, 10 profiles × 200 posts gave 1,563 posts and 2 not_found rows in 53 seconds. A bigger request stops at this limit with PARTIAL and SAFETY_LIMIT, keeps the posts saved so far, and charges only for them. For more data, use several runs.
• A profile ends where its public feed ends, even if maxItems is higher.
• Profile tabs replies and reposts: the first page only, as Threads shows it without login.
• Search: top ~25–30 posts per keyword. Replies of a post: the first page only, usually 10–15.
• author.followers is filled only in profile mode. Threads does not show it on post and search pages without login.
• Speed: a 20-post profile takes under 10 seconds. Three inputs are read at the same time; a slow request is retried in a new proxy session after 12 seconds.

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Switching from another Threads scraper

You can keep the input you used with another Threads scraper. The Actor reads these field names too and picks the mode from the filled list. Mixed lists (urls, targets, links) are split per value: a post link goes to post mode, a profile name or link to profile mode, a search link to search.

Your field	Read as
profiles, user, username, handles, users, profileUrls	usernames
post_links, post_urls, postLinks, startUrls (strings or { "url": … }), posts	postUrls
searchQueries, keywords, searchTerms, searchQuery, query, search, hashtags	queries
maxPosts, max_posts, maxResults, maxItemsPerKeyword, maxPostsPerProfile, maxPostsPerQuery, maxPostsPerSource, maxResultsPerInput, resultsLimit, limit	maxItems
maxTotalPosts, maxTotalResults	maxTotalItems
start_date, startDate, afterDate, after, onlyPostsNewerThan, dateFrom, since	postedAfter
end_date, endDate, beforeDate, before, onlyPostsOlderThan, dateTo, until	postedBefore
action or mode: user, posts, user_posts	mode: profile
action or mode: user_replies, user_reposts	mode: profile with profileTab: replies or reposts
action or mode: urls, post_link, thread	mode: post
action or mode: keyword, hashtag	mode: search
maxReplies, fetchAllReplies	includeReplies

Output field names are camelCase and the author is a nested object. Typical mapping:

Other Actor	This Actor
post_url, post_code	url, code
text_content	text
created_at	createdAt
like_count, reply_count, repost_count, quote_count, share_count	likes, replies, reposts, quotes, shares
media_type, media_url(s)	mediaType, media[].url
quoted_post_url	quotedPost.url
is_reply, reply_to_username	isReply, replyToUsername
is_pinned, topic_tag, link_title	pinned, topic, linkTitle
username, display_name, user_id, is_verified, followers_count, profile_pic_url	author.username, author.fullName, author.userId, author.verified, author.followers, author.profilePicUrl
scraped_at	fetchedAt

Extra here: a post with its replies in the same Actor (role shows target, thread or reply), and not_found rows that explain every missing input. Not here: view counts, bios, followers lists and recent search.

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API, export and integrations

• API: start a run with POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cliqtomedia~threads-scraper/runs and the JSON input above. Read rows from the run's default Dataset, for example with ?view=posts.
• Export: the Dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the Output tab or the API.
• Scheduling: use Apify Schedules, for example a daily run over your list of profiles with postedAfter: "1 day".
• Integrations: Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets and webhooks connect through the Apify integrations tab. Slack and Notion also work through deliveryConnector.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

• MCP server with only this Actor: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=cliqtomedia/threads-scraper.
• Smallest useful input: {"mode": "profile", "usernames": ["zuck"], "maxItems": 20}.
• Key fields: text (post text), author.username (who posted), createdAt (when), likes (engagement), url (link to cite).
• A 20-post profile run takes under 10 seconds and costs $0.032 on the Free plan. At most 50 inputs and 500 posts per input; search gives the top ~25–30 posts per keyword. not_found and error rows explain missing data.

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Troubleshooting

A well-known profile returns not_found

Symptom: a row with status: not_found and errorCode: NOT_FOUND for a profile that exists. Reason: threads.com shows some profiles only to logged-in visitors. The Actor works without login, so it cannot read them. Action: check the profile in a private browser window. If it asks you to log in, this Actor cannot read it.

Search returns fewer posts than maxItems

Threads shows logged-out visitors only the top ~25–30 posts per keyword. Add more specific keywords, for example coffee roasting and #coffeeshop next to coffee.

A profile with postedAfter returns few posts

Reading stops at the first post older than Posted after (pinned posts are skipped), so a quiet profile gives few or no posts. A profile with no posts in the period returns one not_found row with NO_POSTS.

The run ends as PARTIAL

Check partialReason in RUN_SUMMARY. CHARGE_LIMIT: raise Maximum cost per run or max paid results. SAFETY_LIMIT: the request is larger than one run can do; split it into several runs. SOURCE_ERROR: Threads failed for some inputs; run them again later.

Rows with error status, RATE_LIMITED or BLOCKED

Threads refused the requests after retries. These rows are free. Keep the default Apify Proxy on, or switch the proxy to Residential in Advanced, and run the failed inputs again.

Rows with INVALID_INPUT, or the run fails with INVALID_INPUT

A username, post URL or keyword cannot be read. The row names the value and the reason; fix it and run again. The whole run fails with INVALID_INPUT only when no usable value is left, and the message shows an example of a valid input. Only the start was charged.

Nothing arrived in Slack or Notion

Check delivery in RUN_SUMMARY and the run log. For Notion, deliveryTarget must be a page link that the connector can open; for Slack, a channel ID. The run itself is not affected.

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FAQ

Do I need a Threads or Instagram account?

No. The Actor reads only public pages without login, cookies or tokens.

Why not use the official Threads API?

The official Threads API needs an app, an access token and review, and reads mainly your own account. This Actor reads public posts of any public profile, post or keyword without setup.

Why is there no view count?

Threads does not show view counts to logged-out visitors. The Actor never guesses a value.

How do I get only new posts?

Set Posted after to a period such as 1 day and schedule the Actor daily. Older posts are skipped and not charged.

Are the counts live?

They are a snapshot at fetchedAt. Run again to refresh them.

Is the data complete?

It is what threads.com shows a logged-out visitor at fetch time. Deleted posts, private profiles and profiles that need login are not included, and some counts can be null.

Is scraping Threads allowed?

The Actor reads only public pages at a modest rate and does not log in or bypass any wall. Meta's terms limit automated collection. You are responsible for how you collect, store and reuse the content, including personal data and authors' rights.

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Related Actors

• Bluesky Scraper — the same kind of public posts and profiles from Bluesky.
• Truth Social Scraper — public posts of Truth Social accounts for the same monitoring.
• Telegram Channel Scraper — posts of public Telegram channels.
• Reddit Scraper — Reddit posts and comments for topic research.
• YouTube Comments Scraper — comments under videos for sentiment analysis.

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Support

Use the Issues tab of this Actor for bugs, questions and feature requests. Include the run ID, the mode and the error text. Never post tokens, cookies or private data.

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