Bluesky Search Scraper

Search Bluesky posts, find user profiles, or export any account's feed as clean structured data. Built on Bluesky's public AppView API — no login, no app password, no proxies.

Who is this for?

• Brand & social listening: track mentions of your product, competitors or campaign hashtags
• Journalists & researchers: collect public conversation around breaking news or topics over time
• Marketers: find relevant creators and measure engagement (likes, reposts, replies, quotes)
• Data teams: feed dashboards and sentiment pipelines with fresh Bluesky data

Modes

Mode	What it does	Required input
searchPosts	Full-text post search, sorted by latest or top	query
searchUsers	Profile search by name/handle/bio	query
authorFeed	Export one account's posts and reposts	authorHandle

query supports Bluesky's search operators: "exact phrase", from:handle.bsky.social, #hashtag, etc.

Input example

{
    "mode": "searchPosts",
    "query": "climate change",
    "sort": "latest",
    "sinceDate": "2026-07-01",
    "untilDate": "2026-07-20",
    "maxItems": 500
}

Output

Post item (modes searchPosts and authorFeed):

{
    "uri": "at://did:plc:6kos45lixtga3pdwuncvh32x/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqc36slinc2m",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/paretooptimizer.bsky.social/post/3mqc36slinc2m",
    "authorHandle": "paretooptimizer.bsky.social",
    "authorDisplayName": "Pareto Optimizer",
    "authorDid": "did:plc:6kos45lixtga3pdwuncvh32x",
    "text": "I know this guy has a Bluesky account.",
    "createdAt": "2026-07-10T11:46:11.858Z",
    "likeCount": 6565,
    "repostCount": 544,
    "replyCount": 152,
    "quoteCount": 14,
    "langs": ["en"],
    "embeds": [{ "type": "quote", "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/dexerto.bsky.social/post/3mqbs2zzdi22y" }],
    "timestamp": "2026-07-24T12:00:00.000Z"
}

User item (mode searchUsers):

{
    "did": "did:plc:wmho6q2uiyktkam3jsvrms3s",
    "handle": "nbcnews.com",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/nbcnews.com",
    "displayName": "NBC News",
    "description": "News updates from around the world, all day, every day.",
    "followersCount": null,
    "createdAt": "2023-05-31T01:09:28.017Z",
    "verifiedStatus": "valid",
    "timestamp": "2026-07-24T12:00:00.000Z"
}

embeds summarizes attachments: external (link cards, with URL/title), image (full-size CDN URL + alt text), video, and quote (link to the quoted post).

Pricing

The actor charges per item returned (result-item event). A run that finds 300 posts costs 300 events — you pay only for delivered data.

Honest limitations

• Only public posts and profiles indexed by Bluesky's AppView are returned; blocked/private data is not accessible.
• searchUsers results come from the profile search endpoint, which does not include follower counts (followersCount is null there). authorFeed and post authors do not include follower counts either.
• sinceDate/untilDate are applied server-side for post search; for authorFeed they are applied client-side while paginating (the API has no date filter there).
• Bluesky search relevance and hitsTotal are approximate; deep pagination of huge result sets may be truncated by the API.
• authorFeed includes reposts, marked with "isRepost": true — filter them out downstream if you only want original posts.
• The public AppView applies IP-based rate limits. The actor throttles itself (sequential requests with delays) and backs off on HTTP 429, but very large maxItems runs will be slow by design.

Usage tips

• Track a hashtag daily: schedule { "mode": "searchPosts", "query": "#buildinpublic", "sort": "latest" }
• Find influencers in a niche: { "mode": "searchUsers", "query": "machine learning" }
• Archive an account: { "mode": "authorFeed", "authorHandle": "bsky.app", "maxItems": 5000 }