Mastodon Scraper — Hashtags & Account Posts

Scrape public Mastodon posts by hashtag or account from any instance. Get one clean row per post — text, author, follower count, favourites, boosts, replies, tags, media and date. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull straight from the API.

Perfect for social listening, hashtag and trend tracking, community and competitor analysis, fediverse research, and building post datasets for dashboards or LLMs.

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What you get

One flat, ready-to-use record per post:

Field	Description
id / url	The post and its link
content	Post text (HTML stripped)
author / authorName	Handle and display name
authorFollowers	Author's follower count
favourites / reblogs / replies	Engagement metrics
tags	Hashtags on the post
mediaUrls	Attached media
language / sensitive	Post metadata
isReblog / rebloggedBy	Boost info (content is the boosted post's)
createdAt	Publish date (ISO 8601)
instance / source	Where and how it was collected
collectedAt	When the row was scraped

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How to use

1. By hashtag or account

{
  "instance": "mastodon.social",
  "hashtags": ["technology", "opensource"],
  "accounts": ["Gargron"],
  "maxItems": 300
}

• Instance — the Mastodon server to query (it federates results across the network) — e.g. mastodon.social, fosstodon.org, infosec.exchange.
• Hashtags — public posts for each tag.
• Accounts — posts from given handles (user or user@another.instance).
• Max posts — cap the total (0 = no limit; the scraper pages through results).

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Example output

{
  "id": "117304350090200688",
  "url": "https://mastodon.social/@techwire/117304350090200688",
  "content": "One-Electron Universe — great read on…",
  "author": "techwire@gamefan.net",
  "authorFollowers": 258,
  "favourites": 12,
  "reblogs": 1,
  "replies": 0,
  "tags": ["tech", "technology", "technews"],
  "isReblog": false,
  "createdAt": "2026-09-20T15:40:00.000Z",
  "collectedAt": "2026-09-20T16:20:00.000Z"
}

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Common use cases

• Social listening — track what's said around a topic or hashtag on the fediverse.
• Trend tracking — monitor hashtags over time.
• Community & competitor analysis — follow accounts' posts and engagement.
• Fediverse research — gather public posts across instances.
• Datasets — build clean, structured post corpora for analysis or model training.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need any login, account or key? No. Just set hashtags or accounts and run.

Can I use a different instance? Yes — set the Instance field to any Mastodon server.

Can I scrape a specific person's posts? Yes — add their handle (e.g. user@instance) to Accounts.

How many posts can I get? Set Max posts to whatever you need (0 = no limit) — the scraper pages through the timeline.

What format is the data? A flat table you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or fetch from the Apify API.

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Related scrapers

Building a social toolkit? Check out our other social media scrapers on Apify Store — all with the same clean, one-row-per-item output.