Bluesky Mentions Scraper — Brand & Keyword Monitoring

Track brand mentions and keywords on Bluesky and get clean, structured JSON back: post text, author, timestamps, engagement counts (likes, reposts, replies, quotes), hashtags, and outbound links. No Bluesky login, no API keys, no configuration. Enter keywords and run.

Bluesky has 27M+ monthly active users and is one of the fastest-growing social platforms, yet most social-listening suites still don't cover it. This Actor closes that blind spot: monitor your brand, competitors, product names, or any topic in minutes.

What data does the Bluesky scraper return?

Each mention is one JSON object:

{
    "keyword": "anthropic",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/user.bsky.social/post/3mpu2eryygr2e",
    "text": "A small Claude memory tool says a lot about how people actually use these models…",
    "createdAt": "2026-07-04T21:54:22.435Z",
    "author": { "handle": "user.bsky.social", "displayName": "User", "did": "did:plc:…" },
    "likeCount": 12,
    "repostCount": 3,
    "replyCount": 5,
    "quoteCount": 1,
    "isReply": false,
    "langs": ["en"],
    "links": ["https://example.com/article"],
    "tags": ["ai", "llm"],
    "embedType": "app.bsky.embed.external"
}

Built-in extras most Bluesky scrapers don't have:

• Sentiment analysis: every mention labeled positive / negative / neutral with a score.
• Author enrichment: attach each author's follower count, post count, and bio (enrichAuthorProfiles) so you can spot influential mentions.
• Engagement filter: minEngagement keeps only posts with real traction.

Use cases

• Brand monitoring / social listening: track every mention of your company or product on Bluesky, on a schedule, and pipe results to Slack, email, or a webhook via Apify integrations.
• Competitor research: watch what people say about competitors and how much engagement it gets.
• Influencer & community discovery: find the authors driving conversations in your niche.
• PR & crisis alerting: schedule hourly runs with sinceHours: 1 to catch spikes early.
• Research & datasets for AI: collect topic data as LLM-ready JSON for RAG pipelines, sentiment analysis, or trend research.

How to monitor Bluesky mentions (quick start)

1. Enter one or more keywords (brand names, products, topics, quoted phrases).
2. Optionally set the time window (sinceHours, default: last 24 hours), sort order, language, or a max mentions cap.
3. Click Start. Results land in the dataset as JSON (export to CSV, Excel, or fetch via API).

Runs on a schedule, integrates with Make, n8n, Zapier, LangChain, and works as an MCP tool inside AI agents (Claude, Cursor, and others).

Input example

{
    "keywords": ["your brand", "competitor name"],
    "sinceHours": 24,
    "sort": "latest",
    "maxMentionsPerKeyword": 500,
    "includeReplies": true
}

Advanced queries work too: quoted phrases ("acme corp"), from:handle.bsky.social, and other operators Bluesky search supports.

Pricing

Pay per event: a small fee per Actor start plus a fraction of a cent per mention collected. You only pay for the results you get. No subscription.

Works inside AI agents (MCP)

This Actor is available as an MCP tool through the Apify MCP server. Connect it to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client and your agent can monitor Bluesky mentions on demand.

More Bluesky tools

• Bluesky Profile Scraper: profile details plus full follower/following lists for the authors you find here.
• AI Brand Visibility Tracker: check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity & Gemini mention your brand.

FAQ

Does it need my Bluesky account or password? No. It reads public posts through Bluesky's open AT Protocol API.

Is scraping Bluesky legal? The Actor collects only public posts via Bluesky's public API. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws and Bluesky's terms.

How fresh are the results? Posts typically appear in search within seconds of being published; sort: "latest" returns newest first.

Can it run continuously? Yes. Schedule it (e.g. hourly with sinceHours: 1) or call it as a Standby HTTP API for real-time queries.