Bluesky Scraper — Posts, Profiles, Search & Monitor

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Social discovery	Product launches
Bluesky Scraper ◄── you are here	Product Hunt Scraper
Posts, profiles, search, threads, graph, monitor	Launches, reviews, comments, leaderboards

Bluesky scraper for Apify — extract posts, profiles, hashtag/keyword search, reply threads, followers, following, likes, reposts, and custom feeds from Bluesky via the open AT Protocol public AppView API. No browser, no Cloudflare fight, and no login for public data (including post search).

Monitor mode stores per-target watermarks in a named key-value store and returns only posts newer than the last run — built for hourly/daily schedules, brand listening, and competitor tracking.

When to use this Actor

• Brand / hashtag listening without an app password
• Author feed export for influencers, journalists, or competitors
• Profile enrichment (followers, bio, post counts)
• Social graph pulls (followers / following)
• Full conversation trees for research
• Scheduled incremental monitoring of accounts or queries

Key Features

• AT Protocol XRPC — fast httpx async client against public AppView endpoints
• Dual-host search — routes post search so it works without Bluesky credentials
• 11 modes — user posts, profiles, search, search users, threads, followers, following, custom feed, likes, reposts, monitor
• Incremental monitor — named KV watermarks; optional baseline-only first run
• Batch hydration — getProfiles / getPosts (up to 25)
• RateGate — client RPS budget + 429 backoff; proxy optional
• Flat JSON rows — Store-ready type field (post, profile, follower, …)

Input Parameters

Parameter	Description
mode	user_posts, user_profiles, search, search_users, post_threads, followers, following, custom_feed, likes, reposts, monitor
startUrls	Profile / post / feed URLs or at:// URIs
handles	Handles or DIDs
searchQuery / searchQueries	Keyword or hashtag queries
searchSort	latest or top (search mode)
monitorSource	user_posts | search | custom_feed
monitorStoreName	Named KV store for watermarks
monitorBaselineOnly	First run: set watermark, push nothing
resetMonitorState	Clear watermarks before run
includeReplies / includeReposts	Author-feed filters
threadDepth	Max reply depth for threads
maxItems	Dataset row cap (0 = unlimited)
concurrency	Parallel streams (default 8)
maxRequestsPerSecond	Client rate limit (default 10)
proxyConfiguration	Optional; usually not required

Author feed:

{
  "mode": "user_posts",
  "handles": ["jay.bsky.team", "bsky.app"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "concurrency": 8,
  "maxRequestsPerSecond": 10,
  "includeReplies": true,
  "includeReposts": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Post search (no app password):

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "#ai",
  "searchSort": "latest",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Monitor (schedule after a baseline run):

{
  "mode": "monitor",
  "monitorSource": "search",
  "searchQueries": ["#ai", "bluesky"],
  "monitorStoreName": "bluesky-monitor-brand-x",
  "monitorBaselineOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "maxRequestsPerSecond": 10
}

After the baseline run, set monitorBaselineOnly to false (or omit it) so later runs push only new posts.

Output Format

Field	Description
type	post, profile, follower, following, like, repost
id	AT-URI or DID
url	Web URL on bsky.app
text	Post body
authorHandle / authorDid	Author identity
likeCount / repostCount / replyCount / quoteCount	Engagement
hashtags / mentions / media	Facets and embeds
followersCount / followsCount / postsCount	Profile counters
monitorTarget / monitorSource	Present on monitor rows

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "at://did:plc:oky5czdrnfjpqslsw2a5iclo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdkahh4xk2r",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3mrdkahh4xk2r",
  "text": "Example post text",
  "authorHandle": "jay.bsky.team",
  "authorDid": "did:plc:oky5czdrnfjpqslsw2a5iclo",
  "likeCount": 42,
  "repostCount": 3,
  "replyCount": 5,
  "hashtags": [],
  "media": [],
  "monitorTarget": "#ai",
  "monitorSource": "search"
}

Workflow tips

1. Use handles + user_posts / user_profiles for known accounts.
2. Prefer search for discovery — no Bluesky app password needed.
3. Cap large follower graphs with maxItems; add proxies only for very high RPS.
4. For alerts: baseline with monitorBaselineOnly, then schedule without it.
5. Give each scheduled monitor a distinct monitorStoreName.

Related Actors

Actor	Role
Bluesky Scraper ◄── you are here	Bluesky / AT Protocol public data
Product Hunt Scraper	Product launches, reviews, comments