Bluesky Scraper — Posts, Profiles, Followers & Keyword User Search

Pull public data straight from Bluesky: a user's posts with full engagement counts, profile stats, and their followers and following lists — all as clean structured JSON. Feed it handles, DIDs, or profile URLs (or discover users by keyword), pick a data type, and get back tidy records ready for analysis. No account, no API key. Built for social researchers, growth teams, journalists, and anyone tracking the Bluesky network.

Features

• 🦋 Four data types in one Actor — switch dataType between posts, profile info, followers, and following.
• 🔎 Discover users by keyword — searchTerms finds matching accounts via actor search and scrapes them alongside your actors list.
• 📊 Real engagement metrics — every post carries likeCount, repostCount, replyCount, quoteCount, and bookmarkCount.
• 🖼️ Media and link cards — extracts post images, plus externalUrl, externalTitle, and externalDescription from embedded link previews.
• 🔁 Repost & reply flags — isRepost and isReply mark timeline context; posts are de-duplicated across feeds automatically.
• 🎯 Flexible inputs — accepts handles (nytimes.com), DIDs, or full bsky.app/profile/... URLs interchangeably.
• 📈 Scales to 20,000 items per user with cursor-based pagination under the hood.

What you get

Each post is one clean JSON record:

{
  "type": "post",
  "uri": "at://did:plc:abc123/app.bsky.feed.post/3kxyz",
  "handle": "nytimes.com",
  "displayName": "The New York Times",
  "authorDid": "did:plc:abc123",
  "text": "Breaking: ...",
  "createdAt": "2026-07-20T14:03:00.000Z",
  "langs": ["en"],
  "likeCount": 812,
  "repostCount": 145,
  "replyCount": 63,
  "quoteCount": 21,
  "bookmarkCount": 9,
  "isReply": false,
  "isRepost": false,
  "embedType": "app.bsky.embed.images#view",
  "images": ["https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/..."],
  "externalUrl": null,
  "externalTitle": null,
  "externalDescription": null,
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3kxyz"
}

Input

{
  "actors": ["jay.bsky.team", "https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com"],
  "searchTerms": ["climate news"],
  "dataType": "posts",
  "maxItemsPerActor": 100,
  "maxSearchActors": 25
}

Field	Description
actors	Handles, DIDs, or profile URLs to scrape.
searchTerms	Keywords; matching users are found and scraped too.
dataType	posts, profile, followers, or following.
maxItemsPerActor	Max posts/followers/following per user (up to 20000).
maxSearchActors	How many users to take from each search term.

Use cases

• Track engagement on a brand or competitor's Bluesky posts over time.
• Build follower/following graphs for network and influencer analysis.
• Discover accounts in a topic niche via keyword search, then pull their feeds.
• Monitor news outlets and public figures for social listening dashboards.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: you're billed a small amount per run and per item scraped — you only pay for what you get. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

Notes

This Actor uses Bluesky's public AppView API (public.api.bsky.app) and reads only public, unauthenticated data — no login or key required. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Bluesky Social PBC.