Bluesky Scraper: search posts, scrape accounts and profiles, no login

Search Bluesky posts by keyword or hashtag, pull any account's posts and profile, read a post with its replies, or find profiles by keyword, into JSON, CSV or Excel. Each post has its text, time, author, likes, reposts, replies, quotes, language, hashtags, links, images and quoted post. Each profile has bio and follower, following and post counts. No Bluesky account, no API key, no browser.

Price: $1 per 1,000 posts ($0.001 per post) and $2 per 1,000 profiles ($0.002 each), no start fee. See Pricing below.

Why use this one

• Four jobs in one Actor: keyword search, account timelines, single posts with replies, and profile search.
• Time windows. since and until accept dates or phrases like 7 days, so a scheduled run picks up only new posts.
• Counts included. Like, repost, reply and quote counts are in every row, and searchSort: top ranks by engagement.
• A bad handle does not sink the run. A missing account or deleted post is reported and skipped; rate limits are waited out.
• Honest limit: without a Bluesky login, Bluesky caps a search at 100 posts per query. Split a query into time windows with since and until, or add your own app password to go deeper. Account timelines are not capped this way.

Minimal input

{"searchQueries": ["openai"], "since": "7 days", "maxPostsPerQuery": 50}

Sample output row (real platform run, shortened)

{
  "type": "post",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/hart28.bsky.social/post/3mxlcuwu4p224",
  "text": "The OpenAI employees: \"We were fired for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corpo...",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-11T05:54:09.765Z",
  "author": {
    "did": "did:plc:mnq3zflqpylic7ci5aswomtw",
    "handle": "hart28.bsky.social",
    "displayName": "Hart Cunningham",
    "avatar": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:mnq3zflqpylic7ci5aswomtw/bafkreidnbuqtvo2zd7og7h7upag2bb6grrdck6..."
  },
  "likeCount": 3,
  "repostCount": 0,
  "replyCount": 0,
  "quoteCount": 0,
  "langs": [
    "en"
  ],
  "hashtags": [],
  "embedType": null,
  "externalLink": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-11T07:08:15+00:00",
  "input": "openai"
}

What does Bluesky Scraper do?

Each row lands in the Apify dataset, exportable as JSON, CSV or Excel or readable through the API. Typical uses:

• Brand and topic monitoring. Search a keyword, hashtag or phrase and get the newest or most engaged posts.
• Social listening and sentiment. Collect posts and their like, repost and reply counts for analysis.
• Influencer and audience research. Find accounts by keyword and rank them by followers.
• Competitor tracking. Pull the recent posts of any account on a schedule with since.
• Datasets for AI and RAG. Clean multilingual post text with language tags, links and thread context.
• Thread archiving. Save a post and its replies before they change.

Input

Field	Type	What it does
searchQueries	list of text	Keywords, phrases or #hashtags to search posts for.
handles	list of text	Accounts: bsky.app, @bsky.app, a DID, or a bsky.app/profile/... link.
postUrls	list of text	Posts as https://bsky.app/profile/<handle>/post/<id>.
profileSearchQueries	list of text	Keywords to find accounts by name, handle or bio.
maxPostsPerQuery	number	Cap per search query. Default 100. Anonymous search is limited to 100 by Bluesky (see FAQ).
maxPostsPerHandle	number	Cap per handle, newest first. Default 100.
maxProfilesPerQuery	number	Cap per profile search. Default 25.
searchSort	latest or top	Search order. Default latest.
searchLanguage	text	Optional two-letter language code such as en.
searchAuthor	text	Optional. Only search posts by this handle.
since, until	text	Optional time window for searches and handles. A date (2026-10-01), a datetime, or 7 days, 12 hours.
includeReplies	true/false	Handles: also return the account's replies to others. Default false.
includeProfile	true/false	Handles: also return the profile row. Default true.
includeThreadReplies	true/false	Post URLs: also return the replies under the post. Default false.
maxRepliesPerPost	number	Cap on replies per post URL. Default 50.
blueskyHandle, blueskyAppPassword	text	Optional, your own account. Only needed to search past 100 posts per query.
requestDelaySeconds	number	Pause between requests, default 0.5 s.
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional Apify Proxy. Default is no proxy.

{
  "searchQueries": ["web scraping", "#opensource"],
  "searchLanguage": "en",
  "since": "7 days",
  "maxPostsPerQuery": 100,
  "handles": ["bsky.app"],
  "maxPostsPerHandle": 50,
  "postUrls": ["https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"],
  "includeThreadReplies": true
}

Output

Two row types share the dataset, told apart by type. Every row carries scrapedAt and input, the query, handle or URL it came from.

Post row (type: "post")

{
  "type": "post",
  "uri": "at://did:plc:3zimrx3czphilwo56dd3y2v5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxgpqdo4ly23",
  "cid": "bafyrei...",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/fabian-maume.bsky.social/post/3mxgpqdo4ly23",
  "text": "A partial crawl can delete half your RAG index without an error. ...",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-09T10:00:54.892Z",
  "author": {"did": "did:plc:3zimrx3czphilwo56dd3y2v5", "handle": "fabian-maume.bsky.social", "displayName": "Fabian Maume", "avatar": "https://cdn.bsky.app/..."},
  "likeCount": 0, "repostCount": 0, "replyCount": 0, "quoteCount": 0,
  "langs": ["en"],
  "links": ["https://blog.apify.com/llamaindex-rag-web-data/"],
  "mentions": [], "hashtags": [],
  "embedType": "external",
  "images": [], "video": null,
  "externalLink": {"url": "https://blog.apify.com/llamaindex-rag-web-data/", "title": "Keep your LlamaIndex RAG app fresh", "description": "..."},
  "quotedPost": null,
  "isReply": false, "replyToUri": null, "rootUri": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T10:05:00+00:00",
  "input": "apify"
}

embedType is images, video, external, quote or quoteWithMedia. mentions are DIDs. images entries are {url, thumb, alt}; quotedPost is {uri, url, text, authorHandle}.

Profile row (type: "profile"): did, handle, displayName, description, followersCount, followsCount, postsCount, createdAt, avatar, banner, verified, url.

Pricing

Pay per result, no start fee:

Event	Price
Post	$0.001 ($1 per 1,000)
Profile	$0.002 ($2 per 1,000)

Example: 5 search queries at 100 posts each plus 20 handles with profiles and 100 posts each costs 2,500 posts ($2.50) plus 20 profiles ($0.04) = $2.54. Your caps (maxPostsPer...) are your cost caps, and Apify's max total charge stops the run when you set it.

Use it from n8n, Make, Zapier or an AI agent

Actor ID: datagleaner/bluesky-scraper

Minimal input:

{"searchQueries": ["apify"], "maxPostsPerQuery": 10}

Each tool below runs this Actor with your own Apify API token.

• n8n: add the Apify node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify). On n8n Cloud you install it from the community node registry. Choose Run an Actor and get dataset, set Actor to datagleaner/bluesky-scraper and paste the input above.

• Make: use the Apify app's Run an Actor module, then Get Dataset Items to read the results. Watch Actor Runs can trigger a scenario when a run finishes.

• Zapier: use the Apify action Run Actor, then the search Fetch dataset items. The trigger Finished Actor run starts a Zap when a run ends.

• AI agents (MCP): connect to https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=datagleaner/bluesky-scraper. Without a token, an agent can still find Actors with the search-actors tool, but running this one needs your Apify account. In Claude Code:

    claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=datagleaner/bluesky-scraper"
  

  Then run /mcp to sign in to Apify in your browser. Then ask in plain language, for example: "Use the Bluesky scraper to get the 50 newest Bluesky posts mentioning apify, and summarise in English what people ask for most, with the like counts."

• LangChain (Python):

# pip install langchain-apify, then set APIFY_TOKEN in your environment
import json
from langchain_apify import ApifyActorsTool
tool = ApifyActorsTool("datagleaner/bluesky-scraper")
result = tool.invoke({"run_input": json.loads('{"searchQueries": ["apify"], "maxPostsPerQuery": 10}')})

FAQ

What happens if I start it with no input? It runs a small built-in example: the 5 newest posts from the account bsky.app, without the profile row, billed as 5 posts, and the status message says so. Any input you give replaces the example.

Do I need a Bluesky account? No. Everything except searching past the first page works with no login.

Why is search limited to 100 posts per query? Bluesky's public API answers a search with no login but refuses to page further (it replies 403 to a cursor). To go deeper without a login, split the query into time windows with since and until and run each as its own query, or add your own blueskyHandle and an app password (bsky.app/settings/app-passwords, never your main password): the Actor then searches through your own account, which pages freely, and the password is used only for that. Handles, posts and profiles are not affected by this limit.

Does it respect rate limits? Yes: a polite default pause, exponential backoff with retry-after support, and a single request at a time.

Is replies' order guaranteed? Replies are returned nearest first (breadth first), up to maxRepliesPerPost.

Are reposts included for handles? No, only the account's own posts (and replies if you turn them on); a repost is another account's post.

Responsible use

Only public Bluesky data is collected. Posts and profiles can contain personal data; your use of it, including consent, retention and platform terms, is your responsibility. Do not use the data for harassment or to re-identify people.