# Bluesky Scraper: Posts, Profiles, Followers & Search | $1/1K (`datadrip/bluesky-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Bluesky posts, profiles, threads, custom feeds, followers, following, likers and reposters, plus people and post search. Official AT Protocol API: fast, reliable, no proxies. No login needed except post search. $1 per 1,000 posts.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/datadrip/bluesky-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ruan Bezuidenhout](https://apify.com/datadrip) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Lead generation, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 profile or posts

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

## Bluesky Scraper: Profiles, Posts, Followers & Search

An all-in-one Bluesky scraper built on Bluesky's **official, open AT Protocol API**. It's fast, reliable and needs **no login** for almost everything.

### What it gets

| Paste this | You get |
|---|---|
| A handle (`@name.bsky.social` or just `name`) or profile link | Profile details, latest posts, optionally replies, reposts, followers and following |
| A post link | The post and its reply thread, optionally who liked and reposted it |
| A custom feed link (`bsky.app/profile/…/feed/…`) | The feed's posts |
| **Search people** | Profiles matching a name or bio keyword |
| **Search posts** | Keyword search across all of Bluesky, sorted by latest or top (requires your own free app password; see below) |

Every post includes text, timestamps, like, repost, reply and quote counts, languages, hashtags, mentions, links, images (with alt text), video, link previews, quoted posts and moderation labels.

### Who uses this

- **Brand and social listening:** track mentions and topics as conversation moves to Bluesky.
- **Researchers and journalists:** collect public posts and threads around events.
- **Growth and lead generation:** find people by bio keywords, and export followers of relevant accounts.
- **AI pipelines:** clean, structured social data for analysis and RAG.

### Input example

```json
{
  "targets": ["bsky.app", "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"],
  "maxPostsPerSource": 100,
  "postedAfter": "2026-10-01",
  "includeFollowers": true,
  "maxAccountsPerList": 1000,
  "userSearchQueries": ["data engineer"]
}
```

### Post search needs a free app password

Bluesky only allows keyword post search for logged-in users. To use it:

1. In Bluesky, go to **Settings → Privacy and security → App passwords** and create one.
2. Enter your handle and that app password in the input. It's stored encrypted, used only to sign in to Bluesky for your run, and can be revoked anytime. **Never use your main password.**

Everything else works without a login.

### Use it from Zapier, Make, n8n, Google Sheets or your own code

- **No-code:** connect this actor in **Zapier, Make or n8n** (search for "Apify"), or send results straight to **Google Sheets, Slack or email** from the actor's **Integrations** tab.
- **Schedule it:** set it to run daily or weekly from **Schedules** in Apify Console.
- **API:** every run is available through the Apify API. See the **API** tab on this page for ready-to-copy examples in Python, JavaScript and cURL.
- **AI agents:** use it from Claude, Cursor and other AI tools through the **Apify MCP server**.

### Pricing

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| Profile or post | **$0.001** ($1 per 1,000) |
| Account in a followers, following, likers or reposters list | **$0.0005** ($0.50 per 1,000) |

Duplicates within a run and inputs that fail (for example, a handle that doesn't exist) are never charged. Failed inputs are listed in the run's `FAILURES` record.

### Good to know

- The scraper respects Bluesky's rate limits. On very large runs it may pause briefly when Bluesky asks it to slow down.
- Only public data is collected. Blocked or deleted posts in a thread are skipped.

# Actor input Schema

## `targets` (type: `array`):

Handles (@name.bsky.social or just name), profile links, post links or custom feed links from bsky.app. The type is detected automatically.

## `maxPostsPerSource` (type: `integer`):

How many posts to take from each source.

## `postedAfter` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD. Skip older posts.

## `includeProfiles` (type: `boolean`):

One row per profile with bio, follower/following/post counts and creation date.

## `includePosts` (type: `boolean`):

The profile's latest posts.

## `includeReplies` (type: `boolean`):

Also take posts that are replies to others.

## `includeReposts` (type: `boolean`):

Also take posts the profile reposted (marked with repostedBy).

## `includeFollowers` (type: `boolean`):

List the profile's followers (charged at the lower account rate).

## `includeFollowing` (type: `boolean`):

List the accounts the profile follows (charged at the lower account rate).

## `maxAccountsPerList` (type: `integer`):

Cap for followers, following, likers, reposters and user search results.

## `includeThreadReplies` (type: `boolean`):

For post links: also take the replies in its thread.

## `includeLikers` (type: `boolean`):

Accounts that liked the post.

## `includeReposters` (type: `boolean`):

Accounts that reposted the post.

## `userSearchQueries` (type: `array`):

Find profiles by name or bio keywords. No login needed.

## `postSearchQueries` (type: `array`):

Keyword search across all of Bluesky. Bluesky requires a login for this: fill in your handle and an app password below.

## `searchSort` (type: `string`):

Latest first, or top posts.

## `searchLanguage` (type: `string`):

Optional ISO code, e.g. en.

## `blueskyHandle` (type: `string`):

Only needed for post search, e.g. yourname.bsky.social.

## `blueskyAppPassword` (type: `string`):

Create one in Bluesky: Settings → Privacy and security → App passwords. Never use your main password. Stored encrypted.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "targets": [
    "bsky.app",
    "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"
  ],
  "maxPostsPerSource": 50,
  "includeProfiles": true,
  "includePosts": true,
  "includeReplies": false,
  "includeReposts": false,
  "includeFollowers": false,
  "includeFollowing": false,
  "maxAccountsPerList": 500,
  "includeThreadReplies": true,
  "includeLikers": false,
  "includeReposters": false,
  "searchSort": "latest"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `posts` (type: `string`):

Posts from profiles, threads, feeds and searches.

## `profiles` (type: `string`):

Profiles plus follower, following, liker and reposter lists.

## `all` (type: `string`):

Every row with every field.

## `failures` (type: `string`):

Handles or links that could not be processed, with the reason.

# 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 = {
    "targets": [
        "bsky.app",
        "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("datadrip/bluesky-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 = { "targets": [
        "bsky.app",
        "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("datadrip/bluesky-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 '{
  "targets": [
    "bsky.app",
    "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"
  ]
}' |
apify call datadrip/bluesky-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,datadrip/bluesky-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/nXgIz95n626sUGIIc/builds/51Nwll7ZFmIE9Ppeo/openapi.json