Bluesky Scraper: posts, profiles, followers and search API

Scrape Bluesky (bsky.app) into clean, flat rows for Excel, Google Sheets, BI tools or your database. Search posts by keyword or hashtag, export any account's posts, profiles, followers and follows, or pull a full reply thread from a post URL.

It runs on Bluesky's official public AppView API, so you need no browser, no proxies and, for most uses, no login. It costs $1 per 1,000 results.

What does the Bluesky Scraper do?

Pick one of six modes:

Mode	Input	One row per
search	a search query, plus optional sort (latest/top), since, until, language and author	post
authorFeed	handles	post or repost in each account's feed
profiles	handles	profile
followers	handles	follower account
follows	handles	account they follow
thread	post URLs	the post and every reply, with its depth

Post rows include the post URI and web link, author handle, display name and DID, text, created/indexed time, like, repost, reply, quote and bookmark counts, language, hashtags, mentions, links (with link card title), image URLs and alt text, video URL, quoted post, and reply parent/root.

Profile rows include the handle, DID, profile link, display name, bio, followers, follows and posts counts, account creation date, avatar, banner, verification status and labels.

Who is it for?

• Social listening and brand monitoring. Track mentions of your brand, product or competitors as people move from X/Twitter to Bluesky. Schedule a daily search run with since set to yesterday.
• Researchers and data journalists. Build datasets of posts on elections, climate or any topic, with language and date filters, for discourse and network analysis.
• Influencer and lead discovery. Export the followers of a niche account, then enrich them with profiles to rank by follower count.
• Marketers and community managers. Export your own posts with engagement counts, or every reply under a launch post with thread.
• AI and NLP. Collect labeled, language-tagged text for training and evaluation sets.

Why use this Bluesky scraper?

• Low price. $1 per 1,000 results, and you can set a maximum charge per run.
• Six modes in one Actor. Search, author feeds, profiles, followers, follows and threads, with no need to chain several Actors.
• Official API, not HTML scraping. It doesn't break when the website changes and needs no proxies.
• No login for most modes. Profiles, feeds, followers, follows and threads are fully public. See the FAQ for search.
• Flat, analysis-ready rows. Hashtags, mentions, links and images are pulled out of the post's rich text and embeds into simple lists. Posts and Profiles table views open straight in the Console.
• Robust. It pages with Bluesky's cursors, retries on rate limits (429) and server errors, and skips a bad handle instead of failing the run.

How to scrape Bluesky

1. Click Try for free (or Start) on this page.
2. Choose a mode and fill in the search query, handles or post URLs.
3. Set Max results to cap the number of rows, and with it your cost.
4. Click Start. A 50-post search finishes in a few seconds.
5. Download the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, XML or HTML, or read them via the API.

Input examples

Top English posts about the election since October 1:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "election",
  "sort": "top",
  "since": "2026-10-01",
  "lang": "en",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Latest posts by one account that mention a keyword:

{ "mode": "search", "searchQuery": "AI", "author": "nytimes.com", "maxResults": 50 }

Profiles of several accounts (handles, @handles, DIDs and profile URLs all work):

{ "mode": "profiles", "handles": ["bsky.app", "@jay.bsky.team", "https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com"] }

The last 500 posts of two accounts:

{ "mode": "authorFeed", "handles": ["bsky.app", "nasa.gov"], "maxResults": 500 }

The first 2,000 followers of an account:

{ "mode": "followers", "handles": ["bsky.app"], "maxResults": 2000 }

A post and all its replies:

{ "mode": "thread", "postUrls": ["https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3myinmg7his27"] }

Field	What it does	Example
mode	What to scrape	search, authorFeed, profiles, followers, follows, thread
searchQuery	Keywords, #hashtag or phrase (search mode)	bluesky, #AI, "climate change"
sort	latest (newest first) or top (most engaging)	top
since / until	Date range for search	2026-10-01, 2026-10-01T12:00:00Z
lang	Language code for search	en, ja, es
author	Only posts by this account (search)	nytimes.com
handles	Accounts for authorFeed, profiles, followers and follows	bsky.app
postUrls	Posts for thread mode	https://bsky.app/profile/.../post/...
maxResults	Maximum rows in total (default 100)	1000
blueskyHandle / blueskyAppPassword	Optional login, only needed for search beyond 100 posts	you.bsky.social

Output sample

A post row (search, authorFeed and thread modes):

{
  "uri": "at://did:plc:bolmj5eezk7xkabiz3ueskd7/app.bsky.feed.post/3myhhgu3eic2g",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/marlena-love.bsky.social/post/3myhhgu3eic2g",
  "cid": "bafyreicrqwnhuox52atfzgyrf2qb5a34di27ho6p2hmfrkyaaq46rv6tui",
  "authorHandle": "marlena-love.bsky.social",
  "authorDisplayName": "🌈Marlena🕊️",
  "authorDid": "did:plc:bolmj5eezk7xkabiz3ueskd7",
  "text": "Dramatic Sunrise on the Gulf Coast\n#bluesky #love",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-22T10:30:18.477Z",
  "indexedAt": "2026-10-22T10:30:19.641Z",
  "likeCount": 830,
  "repostCount": 103,
  "replyCount": 39,
  "quoteCount": 3,
  "bookmarkCount": 5,
  "lang": "en",
  "langs": ["en"],
  "hashtags": ["bluesky", "love"],
  "mentions": [],
  "mentionDids": [],
  "links": [],
  "linkTitle": null,
  "images": [],
  "imageAlts": [],
  "videoUrl": "https://video.bsky.app/watch/did%3Aplc%3Abolmj5eezk7xkabiz3ueskd7/bafkreihwrwtoo6xv2i6npmwep6ujavgyiqifu3ctrjb3wyis2sgrrsbpwm/playlist.m3u8",
  "videoThumbnail": "https://video.bsky.app/watch/did%3Aplc%3Abolmj5eezk7xkabiz3ueskd7/bafkreihwrwtoo6xv2i6npmwep6ujavgyiqifu3ctrjb3wyis2sgrrsbpwm/thumbnail.jpg",
  "quotedPostUri": null,
  "quotedPostUrl": null,
  "isReply": false,
  "replyToUri": null,
  "rootUri": null,
  "labels": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T04:30:00.000Z"
}

A profile row (profiles mode; followers and follows rows add relation and ofHandle):

{
  "did": "did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur",
  "handle": "bsky.app",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app",
  "displayName": "Bluesky",
  "description": "official Bluesky account (check username👆)\n\nBugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app",
  "followersCount": 35349295,
  "followsCount": 23,
  "postsCount": 895,
  "createdAt": "2023-04-12T04:53:57.057Z",
  "verified": false,
  "labels": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T04:30:00.000Z"
}

Extra fields by mode: authorFeed adds feedOwner, repostedBy and isPinned. thread adds threadDepth (0 = the post itself) and threadRootUrl. Follower and follow rows come from Bluesky's list endpoints, which don't include counts, so followersCount, followsCount and postsCount are null there. Run those handles through profiles mode to get the counts.

How much does it cost to scrape Bluesky?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

• $0.001 per result saved ($1 per 1,000 posts or profiles)
• $0.00005 per run start (per GB of memory, a fraction of a cent)

Worked example: exporting the 5,000 latest followers of a brand account, then their 5,000 profiles with follower counts, is 10,000 results × $0.001 = $10, plus 2 run starts × $0.00005 × 0.25 GB, which is well under a cent. The default 50-post search costs about $0.05, so the $5 of monthly free credit on the Apify Free plan covers about 5,000 results.

Set Max results or a maximum charge per run, and the Actor stops as soon as it reaches the limit.

Integrations and API

Call the Actor from your own code with the official apify-client, or connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, webhooks and more from the Integrations tab.

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("deanko/bluesky-scraper").call(run_input={
    "mode": "search",
    "searchQuery": "your brand",
    "sort": "latest",
    "maxResults": 100,
})
for post in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(post["url"], post["likeCount"], post["text"][:80])

JavaScript / Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('deanko/bluesky-scraper').call({
    mode: 'profiles',
    handles: ['bsky.app', 'nytimes.com'],
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((p) => console.log(p.handle, p.followersCount));

You can also run it with one HTTP request through the run-sync-get-dataset-items endpoint and get the rows back in the response.

FAQ

Do I need a Bluesky account? Not for authorFeed, profiles, followers, follows and thread, which use the public AppView API (public.api.bsky.app). Search also works without login, but Bluesky now serves only the first page (up to 100 posts) of search results to logged-out clients. Deeper search pages need authentication. To get more than 100 search results per run, enter your Bluesky handle and an app password in the optional login fields. The Actor then signs in through com.atproto.server.createSession on bsky.social and sends every request with that session.

Is an app password safe? Yes, that is what app passwords are for. Create one in Bluesky under Settings → Privacy and security → App passwords, and revoke it whenever you like. Never enter your main password. The input field is secret, so Apify stores it encrypted and never shows it in logs. The Actor only reads data and never posts, likes or follows.

Where does the data come from? It comes from Bluesky's official AppView API, the same data the bsky.app website and apps show. Only public data is returned.

Are there rate limits? Bluesky rate-limits by IP. The Actor fetches pages one at a time, 100 rows per request, and on HTTP 429 it waits for the reset time Bluesky sends before retrying. It also retries server errors with backoff.

How do I monitor a keyword every day? Schedule the Actor (Console → Schedules) with mode: search, sort: latest and since set to yesterday, and add a webhook or Slack/Sheets integration to receive new posts.

How does Max results work with several handles? It is a total across the whole run. With 3 handles and maxResults: 300, the first handle can use up all 300 rows if it has that many posts. Run handles separately if you need a fixed number per account.

What happens with a wrong handle or URL? It is logged as a warning and skipped, and the rest of the run continues.

Limitations

• Without login, search returns at most 100 posts per run (see the FAQ).
• Bluesky's search caps how deep any query can page, even when logged in. For big historical pulls, split the date range with since / until.
• Only public data is available. Blocked or deactivated accounts and posts that authors limit to logged-in users may be missing.
• Thread mode returns the post and its replies, not the parent posts above it.
• Likes and repost lists (who liked a post) are not included.

Legal and privacy

The data comes from Bluesky's public API. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bluesky Social PBC. Results can include personal data such as handles and display names. You are responsible for using it in line with Bluesky's terms, GDPR and the laws that apply to you.

Support and feedback

Missing a field or mode you need, or found a bug? Open an issue in the Issues tab on this page. If the Actor saves you time, a short review helps other people find it.