Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 record scrapeds

Mastodon Scraper

Scrape any Mastodon (or Fediverse-compatible) server's public API: trending statuses and tags, public timeline, hashtag feeds, account statuses. Useful for social listening, Fediverse research, brand monitoring, and decentralized social analytics.

Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 record scrapeds

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Gio

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

2 days ago

Last modified

Free vs. paid

Free plan: 15 clearly-labelled mock records.
Paid plan: real, live data.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`instance`	String (required)	Mastodon server domain (e.g. `mastodon.social`).
`dataset`	String (required)	`trending-statuses`, `trending-tags`, `public-timeline`, `hashtag`, `account-statuses`.
`query`	String	For `hashtag`: tag name. For `account-statuses`: handle (e.g. `tim@chaos.social`).
`maxItems`	Integer	Default 100, max 1000.
`debug`	Boolean	Verbose logs.

Output

For statuses:

{
  "kind": "status",
  "id": "111234567890",
  "content": "Just shipped a new Mastodon scraper. So fast.",
  "author": "gio@mastodon.social",
  "authorDisplayName": "Gio",
  "authorFollowers": 1234,
  "createdAt": "2026-05-26T20:30:00.000Z",
  "favourites": 42,
  "reblogs": 8,
  "replies": 3,
  "tags": ["apify", "mastodon"],
  "mentions": [],
  "mediaCount": 0,
  "language": "en",
  "url": "https://mastodon.social/@gio/111234567890",
  "instance": "mastodon.social"
}

For tags:

{
  "kind": "tag",
  "name": "apify",
  "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/apify",
  "recentUses": 245,
  "recentAccounts": 89,
  "history": [{ "day": "1716681600", "uses": "245", "accounts": "89" }],
  "instance": "mastodon.social"
}

Pricing

$0.003/record. 1,000 records = $3.

Limitations

Mastodon servers can rate-limit public API; the actor adds ~400ms between paginated calls.
account-statuses requires a valid handle the instance can resolve. Cross-instance handles work via federation.

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