Hive Blog Scraper

Scrape posts, author feeds, profiles, and communities from the Hive blockchain blogging network — the same public data that powers hive.blog, PeakD, and Ecency. Browse trending / hot / new posts by tag or community, pull a specific author's blog, feed, comments or replies, look up a single post or a batch of posts by URL, fetch author profile info, or browse the community directory. HTTP-only via the public api.hive.blog JSON-RPC API. No auth, no login, no cookies, no proxy.

What this actor does

• Eleven modes: posts, byAccount, byPost, byPosts, profile, communities, byCommunity, tags, postComments, followers, following
• Six post rankings: trending, hot, new, muted, highest-payout posts, highest-payout comments
• Six author-activity views: blog, feed, own posts, comments, replies received, payout-sorted
• Rich post metadata: payout value, vote count, tags, images, community, comment count, reputation
• Author profiles: bio, avatar/cover images, follower/following counts, post count, reputation
• Community directory: subscriber counts, admins, pending posts, NSFW flag
• Full comment threads: fetch every reply to a post (postComments mode) with the same rich fields as top-level posts
• Follower graph: list an account's followers or who it follows (followers / following modes), including muted/ignored relationships
• Filters: minimum payout, minimum votes, keyword match, required tag, payout-window status
• Empty fields are omitted — every record only contains fields that actually have data

Output fields

Posts (recordType: "post")

Field	Description
postId	author/permlink composite ID
author, permlink	Post identity
title, body	Post title and full markdown body
bodyLength	Character length of the body
category	Primary tag / community used for the post's main category
community, communityTitle	Community ID and display name, if posted in a community
tags[]	All tags from the post's metadata
images[]	Image URLs extracted from post metadata
created, updated	Timestamps
depth	0 for a top-level post, >0 for a comment
commentCount	Number of direct replies
reblogCount	Number of times reblogged
totalVotes	Total vote count
payoutValue	Current/pending payout in USD-equivalent
pendingPayoutValue, authorPayoutValue, curatorPayoutValue	Raw payout strings (e.g. 10.780 HBD)
maxAcceptedPayout	Author-set ceiling on total payout (e.g. 1000000.000 HBD)
percentHbd	Percent of the payout taken in HBD vs. Hive Power (0-100)
beneficiaries[]	Declared payout beneficiaries (account, percent)
isPaidOut	Whether the 7-day payout window has closed
payoutAt	UTC time the payout window closes (only while still open)
authorReputation	Author's display reputation score
authorTitle, authorRole	Community-assigned author title/role, if any
sourceApp	App used to publish (e.g. peakd/2026.7.5)
postUrl	Canonical https://hive.blog/... URL

Profiles (recordType: "profile")

accountName, reputation, postCount, created, lastActive, followerCount, followingCount, rank, displayName, about, location, website, coverImage, profileImage, profileUrl

Communities (recordType: "community")

communityName, title, about, lang, admins[], isNsfw, authorCount, pendingPostCount, subscriberCount, pendingPayoutSum, createdAt, communityUrl

The single-community lookup (mode=byCommunity) additionally returns: description, flagText (posting/community rules), typeId, team[] ({account, role, title} per member — owner/admin/mod roster).

Tags (recordType: "tag", mode=tags)

tagName, commentCount, topPostCount, totalPayouts (raw string, e.g. "809.296 HBD"), tagUrl

Comments (recordType: "comment", mode=postComments)

Same fields as Posts above, plus parentAuthor and parentPermlink (the post/comment being replied to). The root post itself is excluded — use mode=byPost for that.

Follow relationships (recordType: "follower" / "following", mode=followers/following)

accountName, followType (blog or ignore), accountUrl

Every record also includes recordType and scrapedAt (UTC ISO timestamp).

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	posts	posts / byAccount / byPost / byPosts / profile / communities / byCommunity / tags / postComments / followers / following
sortPosts	string	trending	mode=posts: trending / hot / created / muted / payout / payout_comments
tag	string	–	mode=posts: tag or community ID (e.g. hive-142159); blank = site-wide feed. mode=byCommunity: the exact community ID to look up, required
account	string	–	mode=byAccount / profile: Hive username, with or without @
sortAccount	string	blog	mode=byAccount: blog / feed / posts / comments / replies / payout
postUrl	string	–	mode=byPost/postComments: full post URL or author/permlink shorthand
postUrls	array	–	mode=byPosts: list of post URLs / shorthands
followType	string	blog	mode=followers/following: blog (regular follows) or ignore (muted accounts)
communityQuery	string	–	mode=communities: free-text filter over titles/about
communitySort	string	rank	mode=communities: rank / new / subs
minPayoutValue	number	–	Drop posts with payout below this USD value
minVotes	integer	–	Drop posts with fewer total votes
keyword	string	–	Case-insensitive substring match on title/body
requiredTag	string	–	Drop posts missing this tag
onlyActivePayout	boolean	false	Exclude posts whose payout window already closed
maxItems	integer	50	Hard cap on emitted records (1–1000)

Example: trending photography posts

{
  "mode": "posts",
  "sortPosts": "trending",
  "tag": "photography",
  "minPayoutValue": 5,
  "maxItems": 25
}

Example: an author's blog

{
  "mode": "byAccount",
  "account": "monochromes",
  "sortAccount": "blog",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Example: a single post by URL

{
  "mode": "byPost",
  "postUrl": "https://hive.blog/@monochromes/monomad-august-5th-2026-make-sure-to-read-our-community-and-contest-rules-before-submitting-your-publications"
}

Example: community directory search

{
  "mode": "communities",
  "communityQuery": "photography",
  "communitySort": "rank",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Example: single community lookup (rules, roster, subscriber count)

{
  "mode": "byCommunity",
  "tag": "hive-142159"
}

Example: browse trending tags

{
  "mode": "tags",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Use cases

• Content research — track trending topics and top-performing posts across Hive
• Author monitoring — pull a specific writer's full post history or reply activity
• Curation tools — build custom feeds filtered by payout, votes, or tags
• Community analytics — track subscriber growth and activity across Hive communities
• Content archiving — snapshot posts by URL for backup or analysis

FAQs

Does this require a Hive account, API key, or login? No. All data comes from Hive's public api.hive.blog JSON-RPC API, which requires no authentication.

What is payoutValue? Hive posts earn rewards from the network over a 7-day payout window, denominated in Hive Dollars (HBD) and Hive Power. payoutValue is the API's USD-equivalent estimate of the post's current/final payout.

Can I fetch comments, not just top-level posts? Yes — comments are just posts with depth > 0. Use sortAccount: comments (mode=byAccount) to pull an author's comments, or byPost/byPosts with a comment's own URL.

Why do some posts have no payoutValue or tags? Those fields are only included when the upstream API actually returns them. Very old posts, or posts missing standard JSON metadata, may not have every field.

Is this actor global? Yes — Hive is a single global blockchain network; there are no regional variants. Posts, authors, and communities are all part of one worldwide dataset.

Why do some profile coverImage / profileImage URLs return a broken image? Those URLs are exactly what the account owner set in their own Hive profile metadata — they can point to any external host (Google Photos, Facebook CDN, a personal site, etc.), and Hive's API returns them verbatim. Some users' links are private, expired, or removed on the hosting side; that is a data-quality property of the source account, not something this actor can control or fix. website, about, and other free-text profile fields carry the same caveat.