Bluesky Scraper – Posts, Profiles, Followers & Search API

Scrape Bluesky posts, profiles, followers, following lists, threads, likers, reposters, quote posts, keyword search results and custom feeds using Bluesky's official AT Protocol API. It needs no browser and no proxies, and most modes need no account.

• 11 modes. User posts with date filters, profiles, followers/following, threads and replies, quotes, likers, reposters, post and user search, custom feeds and lists.
• Official API, no login for most modes. Reads go through Bluesky's public AppView. Rate limits and opt-out labels are respected, and an optional App Password unlocks deep search.
• $0.80 per 1,000 posts. Profiles cost $1.00 per 1,000 and followers $0.50 per 1,000, with a $0.0001 start fee.

Quick start

This is the prefilled input: the 5 newest posts from 2 accounts (10 posts), in seconds, for less than $0.01.

{ "mode": "authorPosts", "handles": ["bsky.app", "jay.bsky.team"], "maxPostsPerHandle": 5 }

Sample output

authorHandle	text (excerpt)	createdAt	likeCount	repostCount	replyCount
bsky.app	Not to brag, but ... we snagged a couple of passes to today’s Apple event.	2026-09-09	2,313	148	116
brennan.computer	really the main fight seems to be people who see AI as the right one foisted upon them…	2026-09-15	256	37	11

Price comparison (Apify Store, September 2026)

Actor	Price per 1,000 posts	Monthly users
Bluesky Scraper (this Actor)	$0.80 (+ $0.0001 per run)	new
fatihtahta/All-In-One-Bluesky-Scraper	$1.49	52

Related Actors: Substack Scraper for newsletters and Google News Scraper for headlines, which together cover social and media monitoring.

What can this Bluesky scraper do?

Mode	Input	Output
Posts of users (author feed)	handles / profile URLs	posts, with date range, replies, reposts and media-only filters
User profiles	handles / DIDs / URLs	bio, follower / following / post counts, avatar, banner, join date, verification
Followers / Following	handles	every account in the list (handle, name, bio, avatar, DID)
Post threads & replies	post URLs	the post, its parents and the nested reply tree, each with threadDepth
Quote posts	post URLs	posts quoting the given post
Likers / Reposters	post URLs	accounts that liked (with likedAt) or reposted a post
Search posts	keywords, #hashtags, from:, domain:	matching posts, latest or top, with language and date filters
Search users	keywords	full profiles of matching accounts
Custom feeds & lists	feed / list URLs	posts from any public custom feed (e.g. What's Hot) or curated list

Each post includes the AT URI, CID, bsky.app URL, author (handle, DID, display name, avatar), full text, created date, like / repost / reply / quote / bookmark counts, languages, hashtags, mentions, links, images (URL + alt text), video, external link cards, quoted post, and reply parent / root.

Use cases

• Social listening & brand monitoring: track keywords, hashtags and competitors on Bluesky.
• Research & academia: collect public posts and reply threads for discourse, NLP and network analysis.
• Influencer discovery: profiles with follower counts, and who follows whom.
• Journalism: archive an account's posts over a date range, and see who amplified a post (reposts, quotes).
• AI / LLM pipelines: feed clean, structured Bluesky data into RAG, sentiment or trend models.
• Community management: export your own followers, likers of your posts, or a custom feed.

More input examples

No login is needed for any of these:

{ "mode": "authorPosts", "handles": ["https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com"], "dateFrom": "2026-09-01", "dateTo": "2026-09-15", "includeReplies": false, "includeReposts": true, "maxPostsPerHandle": 0 }

{ "mode": "followers", "handles": ["pfrazee.com"], "maxResultsPerInput": 5000 }

{ "mode": "postThreads", "postUrls": ["https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3mvjnvtfw4s2c"], "threadDepth": 10 }

{ "mode": "searchPosts", "searchQueries": ["#atproto", "from:bsky.app"], "searchSort": "latest", "searchLang": "en" }

{ "mode": "customFeed", "feedUrls": ["https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/feed/whats-hot"], "maxResultsPerInput": 200 }

Output example

{
  "type": "post",
  "uri": "at://did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3shqdfuc2e",
  "cid": "bafyreicctz5gxccl6ql35ae7a6wdk3zl2ry6o5ioltme52yezp7s6l42ji",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3mv3shqdfuc2e",
  "authorHandle": "bsky.app",
  "authorDid": "did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur",
  "authorDisplayName": "Bluesky",
  "text": "Not to brag, but ... we snagged a couple of passes to today's Apple event. ...",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-09T15:00:07.513Z",
  "replyCount": 116, "repostCount": 148, "likeCount": 2313, "quoteCount": 40,
  "langs": ["en"],
  "hashtags": null, "mentions": null, "links": null,
  "isReply": false, "replyParentUri": null, "replyRootUri": null,
  "isRepost": false,
  "embedType": "images",
  "images": [{ "url": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/...", "alt": "An enormous pile of red apples and green apples...", "width": 4000, "height": 3000 }],
  "externalLink": null,
  "quotedPost": null
}

A profile record:

{
  "type": "profile",
  "did": "did:plc:oky5czdrnfjpqslsw2a5iclo",
  "handle": "jay.bsky.team",
  "displayName": "Jay 🦋",
  "description": "Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky ...",
  "followersCount": 594609, "followsCount": 3985, "postsCount": 4168,
  "createdAt": "2022-11-17T06:31:40.296Z",
  "avatar": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/...",
  "verified": true,
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team"
}

See SAMPLE_OUTPUT.json for complete records (post, quote, thread reply, profile, follower). The Output tab has ready views for Posts, Media & links, Profiles, and Followers / likers. A run summary (counts, errors, notes) is saved to the OUTPUT key-value record.

Pricing (pay per result)

Event	Price	Per 1,000
Post	$0.0008	$0.80
Profile	$0.001	$1.00
Follower / following / liker / reposter	$0.0005	$0.50
Actor start	$0.0001	once per run

You only pay for records saved. Errors, unknown accounts and filtered posts are free. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it reaches it.

How it compares (Apify Store, September 2026): other Bluesky actors are used by ~44–50 monthly users each, and one lists a 78% run success rate. This Actor uses only the official API (no HTML scraping that breaks), covers 11 modes including likers, reposters, quotes, lists and custom feeds, and has a near-zero start fee.

Do I need a Bluesky account?

No, for almost everything. Profiles, author posts, threads, followers, following, likers, reposters, quotes, user search, public custom feeds and lists all use Bluesky's public API without login.

Post search works anonymously too, but Bluesky returns only the first page (up to about 100 posts) per query to logged-out clients. For deeper search results, and for personalized feeds such as "Popular with Friends", add your Bluesky handle and an App Password in the optional login section:

1. In Bluesky, open Settings → Privacy and security → App passwords → Add App Password.
2. Paste your handle (e.g. you.bsky.social) and the generated password (xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx).

The password field is marked secret (stored encrypted by Apify). It is used only to create a session (com.atproto.server.createSession), and the Actor only reads data; it never posts, likes or follows. You can revoke the App Password at any time. Never use your main password.

Privacy, terms and rate limits

• Only public data returned by the official AT Protocol API is collected. No emails or phone numbers, no private data, no DMs.
• Accounts that asked apps not to show their content to logged-out visitors (!no-unauthenticated label) are skipped by default (respectOptOut).
• The Actor follows the Bluesky Developer Guidelines. It is read-only, never creates interactions or spam, and identifies itself with a descriptive User-Agent that includes a contact address.
• Reads use the cached public AppView (public.api.bsky.app), as Bluesky recommends. Concurrency is capped, and the Actor backs off automatically on HTTP 429/5xx, honouring Retry-After / RateLimit-Reset headers.
• You are responsible for using the data lawfully (e.g. GDPR) and for honouring deletion requests in anything you store long-term.

Use with AI agents (Apify MCP)

This Actor works as a tool for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server. Add it to your MCP config and ask, for example: "Get the last 100 posts from @nytimes.com on Bluesky and summarize the main topics" or "Who are the most-followed accounts that liked this Bluesky post?". The flat, documented output fields are easy for LLMs to reason over. You can also call it from the Apify API, Python or JS clients, Make, n8n or Zapier.

FAQ

How many posts can I get from one account? All of them. Set maxPostsPerHandle to 0. Use dateFrom / dateTo to limit the window, and paging stops automatically once posts are older than dateFrom.

Does it include replies and reposts? Only if you enable includeReplies / includeReposts. Reposts are marked with isRepost and repostedByHandle.

Can I scrape comments / replies of a post? Yes. Use the Post threads & replies mode with the post URL. Each reply has threadDepth and replyParentUri.

Why did some accounts not appear? They may have been deleted or suspended, or they opted out of logged-out visibility. See the OUTPUT record for per-input errors and counts of skipped items.

Which input formats are accepted? Handles (jay.bsky.team, @bsky.app), DIDs (did:plc:…), bsky.app profile, post, feed and list URLs, and at:// URIs.

Is this legal? The Actor uses Bluesky's official public API and collects only data Bluesky makes publicly available. Check your local laws and Bluesky's Terms for your use case.

Something is broken? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with the run ID.