# Bluesky Scraper (`exciting_pawpaw/bluesky-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Bluesky posts by keyword (date & language filters), user feeds, replies/threads, profiles, followers, following, likers and reposters. Likes, reposts, replies, quotes, images, links. Official API, $0.95 per 1,000 results.

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

## Pricing

Pay per event

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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

Get Bluesky data as clean JSON, CSV or Excel: search posts by keyword, pull every post from any account, collect all replies to a post, and export profiles, followers, following, likers and reposters. All modes except post search work without a login. Post search needs a free Bluesky app password, because Bluesky requires login for search. It costs **$0.95 per 1,000 results**.

### What can this Bluesky scraper do?

| Mode | Input | You get |
|---|---|---|
| **Search posts** (needs Bluesky app password) | keywords, phrases, `#hashtags`, `from:handle` | Matching posts, newest first (or top), with date range, language, author, mention and domain filters |
| **Posts of users** | handles or profile URLs | A user's posts and replies (optionally reposts), with a date range |
| **Post replies / thread** | post URLs | The original post and its replies, nested up to the depth you choose (each reply has `threadDepth`) |
| **Profiles** | handles or profile URLs | Bio, follower/following/post counts, join date, verification, avatar/banner |
| **Search users** | keywords | Matching accounts with full profile details |
| **Followers / Following** | handles | The accounts that follow (or are followed by) each user, with profile details |
| **Likers / Reposters** | post URLs | Who liked or reposted a post (likers include `likedAt`) |

### What data can you get?

**Posts**

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `url` | `https://bsky.app/profile/<handle>/post/<id>` |
| `text` | Post text |
| `createdAt`, `indexedAt` | ISO-8601 timestamps |
| `authorHandle`, `authorDisplayName`, `authorDid`, `authorAvatar`, `authorUrl` | Author info |
| `likeCount`, `repostCount`, `replyCount`, `quoteCount`, `bookmarkCount` | Engagement |
| `langs`, `hashtags`, `links`, `mentionedDids` | Language and rich-text data |
| `images` | Image URLs (full size and thumbnail) with alt text and dimensions |
| `externalLink` | Link card: URL, title, description, thumbnail |
| `video` | Video playlist URL and thumbnail |
| `quotedPost` | The quoted post's URL, text and author |
| `isReply`, `replyToUrl`, `rootPostUri` | Reply context |
| `isRepost`, `repostedByHandle`, `repostedAt` | Reposts (user posts mode) |
| `threadDepth` | 0 = original post, 1 = direct reply, 2 = reply to a reply… (thread mode) |
| `uri`, `cid`, `postId` | AT Protocol identifiers |

**Profiles / users** (`type` = `profile`, `follower`, `following`, `liker`, `reposter`)

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `handle`, `displayName`, `did`, `url` | Identity |
| `description` | Bio |
| `followersCount`, `followsCount`, `postsCount` | Counts |
| `createdAt` | Account creation date |
| `isVerified`, `isTrustedVerifier`, `labels` | Verification and labels |
| `avatar`, `banner`, `pinnedPostUrl` | Media and pinned post |
| `listsCount`, `feedsCount`, `starterPacksCount` | Other things the account has created |

Every item also has `type`, `sourceType`, `sourceInput` (the query, handle or URL that produced it) and `scrapedAt`.

### How to use it

1. Choose **What to scrape**, for example "Posts of users" or "Search posts by keyword".
2. Enter handles, post URLs or search queries, and optionally a date range and language.
3. Click **Start**. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or fetch them via the API.

#### Searching posts: add a Bluesky app password

Bluesky no longer allows post search without login, so the **Search posts** mode needs a Bluesky account. No other mode does.

1. Log in to Bluesky with any account. We recommend a separate, throwaway account made just for scraping.
2. Open **[bsky.app/settings/app-passwords](https://bsky.app/settings/app-passwords)** (Settings → Privacy and security → App passwords) and click **Add App Password**.
3. Copy the generated password (it looks like `xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx`) into **Bluesky app password**, and put the account's handle (e.g. `myname.bsky.social`) into **Bluesky handle**.

An app password is not your main password. It cannot change your account settings, and you can revoke it anytime. The Actor stores it encrypted as a secret input and never logs it. The Actor uses it only to call Bluesky's official search API, and it never posts, likes or follows anything.

### Input example

```json
{
  "mode": "searchPosts",
  "blueskyHandle": "myname.bsky.social",
  "blueskyAppPassword": "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx",
  "searchQueries": ["web scraping", "#rustlang"],
  "since": "2026-09-01",
  "until": "2026-09-30",
  "lang": "en",
  "sort": "latest",
  "maxItems": 1000
}
```

Other examples:

```json
{ "mode": "userPosts", "handles": ["bsky.app", "https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team"], "since": "30 days", "maxItems": 500 }
```

```json
{ "mode": "postThread", "postUrls": ["https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"], "threadDepth": 3 }
```

```json
{ "mode": "followers", "handles": ["python.org"], "maxItems": 5000 }
```

### Output example

A post (real output):

```json
{
  "type": "post",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3mv3shqdfuc2e",
  "uri": "at://did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3shqdfuc2e",
  "cid": "bafyreicctz5gxccl6ql35ae7a6wdk3zl2ry6o5ioltme52yezp7s6l42ji",
  "postId": "3mv3shqdfuc2e",
  "text": "Not to brag, but ... we snagged a couple of passes to today’s Apple event. Stay tuned for our take on all the latest and greatest Apple products.",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-09T15:00:07.513Z",
  "indexedAt": "2026-09-09T15:00:45.669Z",
  "authorHandle": "bsky.app",
  "authorDisplayName": "Bluesky",
  "authorDid": "did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur",
  "authorAvatar": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/bafkreihwihm6kpd6zuwhhlro75p5qks5qtrcu55jp3gddbfjsieiv7wuka",
  "authorUrl": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app",
  "likeCount": 2356,
  "repostCount": 158,
  "replyCount": 117,
  "quoteCount": 41,
  "bookmarkCount": 50,
  "langs": [
    "en"
  ],
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentionedDids": [],
  "links": [],
  "images": [
    {
      "url": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/bafkreih3mb3cwnbc5kv5b2qyy24q6banms25i5ut3cbty4ej2x7vjvd6y4",
      "thumbnail": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/bafkreih3mb3cwnbc5kv5b2qyy24q6banms25i5ut3cbty4ej2x7vjvd6y4",
      "alt": "An enormous pile of red apples and green apples—sweet, tart, delicious, and coming soon to an Apple Store near you! Keep your eye on this thread (and maybe put on a sturdy hat) to learn more about today's big drops.",
      "width": 4000,
      "height": 3000
    }
  ],
  "externalLink": null,
  "video": null,
  "quotedPost": null,
  "isReply": false,
  "replyToUri": null,
  "replyToUrl": null,
  "rootPostUri": null,
  "labels": [],
  "isRepost": false,
  "repostedByHandle": null,
  "repostedAt": null,
  "sourceType": "user",
  "sourceInput": "bsky.app",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T13:49:58Z"
}
```

A profile (real output):

```json
{
  "type": "profile",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app",
  "did": "did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur",
  "handle": "bsky.app",
  "displayName": "Bluesky",
  "description": "official Bluesky account (check username👆)\n\nBugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app",
  "avatar": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/bafkreihwihm6kpd6zuwhhlro75p5qks5qtrcu55jp3gddbfjsieiv7wuka",
  "banner": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/banner/plain/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/bafkreichzyovokfzmymz36p5jibbjrhsur6n7hjnzxrpbt5jaydp2szvna",
  "followersCount": 35200748,
  "followsCount": 15,
  "postsCount": 866,
  "createdAt": "2023-04-12T04:53:57.057Z",
  "indexedAt": "2025-10-27T21:05:26.152Z",
  "isVerified": false,
  "isTrustedVerifier": true,
  "pinnedPostUrl": "https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3l6oveex3ii2l",
  "listsCount": 18,
  "feedsCount": 7,
  "starterPacksCount": 15,
  "isLabeler": false,
  "labels": [],
  "sourceType": "profile",
  "sourceInput": "bsky.app",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T13:50:02Z"
}
```

### Pricing

**$0.95 per 1,000 results.** You pay only for the items saved to your dataset. Use **Maximum results** (`maxItems`) or the run's maximum charge to cap your spend, and the run stops once it reaches either limit.

### Use cases

- **Brand and topic monitoring:** track mentions of your brand, product, competitors or hashtags, day by day.
- **Social listening and sentiment analysis:** export thousands of posts with language tags for NLP or dashboards.
- **Influencer research:** find accounts by keyword and compare follower counts and engagement.
- **Audience analysis:** export the followers of an account, or who liked and reposted a viral post.
- **Conversation analysis:** collect every reply to a post, with its nesting depth.
- **Academic research and journalism:** build reproducible datasets of public posts within a date range.
- **AI agents and LLM pipelines:** connect the Actor to Claude, ChatGPT or your own agent through the [Apify MCP server](https://mcp.apify.com), or feed the results to RAG and summarization workflows.

### FAQ

**Is it legal to scrape Bluesky?**
This Actor reads only public data through Bluesky's official public API, the same data anyone can see without logging in. It does not bypass access controls or collect private data such as emails or phone numbers. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws (e.g. GDPR) and Bluesky's terms.

**Do I need a Bluesky account, cookies or proxies?**
Only for **Search posts**. That mode needs a Bluesky handle and app password (see "Searching posts" above), because Bluesky requires authentication for post search. User posts, threads, profiles, user search, followers, following, likers and reposters all use Bluesky's open public API with no login. You never need cookies or proxies.

**Is my app password safe?**
It is a secret input, so it is stored encrypted and never written to the log or the dataset. An app password cannot change your account settings, and you can revoke it at bsky.app/settings/app-passwords. We still recommend a throwaway account.

**Search says "Bluesky login failed"?**
Check that the handle is complete (e.g. `myname.bsky.social`) and that you used an app password, not your main password. Accounts with email 2FA must use an app password.

**How many posts can a keyword search return?**
The Actor follows Bluesky's search pagination until there are no more results or `maxItems` is reached. Bluesky's search index returns at most about 10,000 hits per query, so for very popular terms run several date ranges (`since`/`until`).

**Why are a few replies missing from a thread?**
Bluesky hides replies that are deleted or blocked, or that the author's thread settings restrict, and it limits very large threads. Use `threadDepth` to control how deep the Actor goes.

**Can I search by hashtag?**
Yes. Enter `#hashtag` as a query. You can also use Bluesky's search syntax, such as `"exact phrase"`, `from:handle`, `mentions:handle` and `-excludedword`.

**Something isn't working?**
Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with your input, and we will fix it quickly.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Choose the type of data. Search modes use 'Search queries'; user modes use 'Handles'; thread/likers/reposters use 'Post URLs'.

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Keywords or phrases for 'Search posts' and 'Search users'. Supports Bluesky search syntax, e.g. "exact phrase", #hashtag, from:handle, -excluded. Note: 'Search posts' requires a Bluesky handle + app password (see below); 'Search users' works without login.

## `handles` (type: `array`):

Bluesky handles (alice.bsky.social, @alice, or just 'alice'), DIDs, or profile URLs like https://bsky.app/profile/alice.bsky.social. Used by user posts, profiles, followers and following.

## `postUrls` (type: `array`):

Post URLs like https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l (or at:// URIs). Used by thread, likers and reposters modes.

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

Bluesky no longer allows post search without login. For the 'Search posts' mode, enter the handle of a Bluesky account (e.g. myname.bsky.social). We recommend a separate throwaway account. All other modes work without login.

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

An app password, NOT your main password. Create one at https://bsky.app/settings/app-passwords (Settings > Privacy and security > App passwords); you can revoke it anytime. Stored encrypted and never logged.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of results saved across all inputs. You pay only for results saved.

## `maxItemsPerInput` (type: `integer`):

Optional limit per search query / handle / post URL. 0 = no per-input limit (only the total limit applies).

## `sort` (type: `string`):

For 'Search posts'. 'latest' = newest first; 'top' = Bluesky's relevance/engagement ranking.

## `since` (type: `string`):

Only posts created on/after this date. 'YYYY-MM-DD', a full ISO timestamp, or relative like '7 days', '24 hours'. Applies to 'Search posts' and 'Posts of users'.

## `until` (type: `string`):

Only posts created before this date (a plain date includes that whole day). Same formats as 'Posts from'. Applies to 'Search posts' and 'Posts of users'.

## `lang` (type: `string`):

For 'Search posts': only posts tagged with this language code, e.g. en, de, ja, pt.

## `author` (type: `string`):

For 'Search posts': restrict results to posts by this handle.

## `mentions` (type: `string`):

For 'Search posts': restrict to posts mentioning this handle.

## `domain` (type: `string`):

For 'Search posts': restrict to posts linking to this domain, e.g. nytimes.com.

## `feedFilter` (type: `string`):

For 'Posts of users': which posts to include from each profile.

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

For 'Posts of users': also include posts the user reposted (marked with isRepost=true).

## `threadDepth` (type: `integer`):

For 'Post replies / thread': how many levels of nested replies to fetch (1 = direct replies only).

## `includeRootPost` (type: `boolean`):

For 'Post replies / thread': also output the post itself (threadDepth 0) before its replies.

## `sortReplies` (type: `string`):

For 'Post replies / thread': order of direct replies.

## `includeProfileDetails` (type: `boolean`):

For followers, following, likers, reposters and user search: fetch follower/following/post counts for each user (1 extra request per 25 users).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "userPosts",
  "searchQueries": [
    "web scraping"
  ],
  "handles": [
    "bsky.app"
  ],
  "postUrls": [
    "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxItemsPerInput": 0,
  "sort": "latest",
  "feedFilter": "posts_with_replies",
  "includeReposts": false,
  "threadDepth": 10,
  "includeRootPost": true,
  "sortReplies": "likes",
  "includeProfileDetails": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "mode": "userPosts",
    "searchQueries": [
        "web scraping"
    ],
    "handles": [
        "bsky.app"
    ],
    "postUrls": [
        "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"
    ],
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("exciting_pawpaw/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 = {
    "mode": "userPosts",
    "searchQueries": ["web scraping"],
    "handles": ["bsky.app"],
    "postUrls": ["https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"],
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("exciting_pawpaw/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 '{
  "mode": "userPosts",
  "searchQueries": [
    "web scraping"
  ],
  "handles": [
    "bsky.app"
  ],
  "postUrls": [
    "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call exciting_pawpaw/bluesky-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,exciting_pawpaw/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/xpIEcm2cXFcG1Abgp/builds/C6U71Cm83cZjeNbSf/openapi.json