Bluesky Scraper: Posts, Search, Profiles & Followers

Get Bluesky data as clean JSON from the official, public AT Protocol API. No browser, no proxies and no CAPTCHA handling.

The actor has six modes:

• authors: recent posts of any account, with likes, reposts, replies, links, hashtags and images.
• profiles: profile details with follower, following and post counts (up to 25 accounts per request).
• followers / follows: the followers or the followed accounts of any account, with their profiles.
• thread: a post and all replies to it, from a bsky.app post link.
• search: posts matching keywords, sorted by latest or top, with date and language filters.

Use it to monitor brand mentions, collect leads from a niche community, track a competitor's posts or research an audience.

Input

{
  "mode": "authors",
  "handles": ["bsky.app", "jay.bsky.team"],
  "includeReplies": false,
  "minLikes": 5,
  "since": "2026-10-01",
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxItems": 200
}

• mode: one of search, authors, profiles, followers, follows, thread.
• handles: accounts for authors, profiles, followers and follows (for example bsky.app or a did:plc: id; @ and https://bsky.app/profile/... links are accepted).
• searchQueries: keywords for search. sort: latest or top. language: for example en.
• postUrls: post links for thread, such as https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l....
• since / until: keep only posts created in this period.
• minLikes, includeReplies, includeReposts: post filters.
• onlyNew: return only items you have not received before for the same input. For posts by account, latest search and followers lists this means items newer than your previous run, so a daily run gives you just what is new. stateKey shares this memory between inputs.
• maxItems: maximum items per run; maxItemsPerQuery limits each handle or query.

Search needs a Bluesky app password

Bluesky does not allow post search without signing in. For search, enter your Bluesky handle in blueskyHandle and an app password in blueskyAppPassword (create one in Bluesky: Settings → Privacy and security → App passwords). Never use your main password. The app password is stored as a secret input and is used only to call Bluesky's own API. All other modes work without signing in.

Output

Posts:

{
  "type": "post",
  "uri": "at://did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6oveex3ii2l",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l",
  "authorHandle": "bsky.app",
  "authorName": "Bluesky",
  "text": "…",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-20T16:00:00.000Z",
  "langs": ["en"],
  "replyCount": 120, "repostCount": 340, "likeCount": 2100, "quoteCount": 45,
  "isReply": false, "isRepost": false,
  "hashtags": [], "links": ["https://…"], "mentions": [], "images": [],
  "externalLink": {"uri": "https://…", "title": "…"},
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-27T15:00:00Z"
}

Profiles (also used for followers and follows, with relation and relationOf; Bluesky's followers lists do not include follower counts, so run profiles mode on the handles you need them for). handle is empty when Bluesky reports the account's handle as invalid; did and url still identify it:

{
  "type": "profile",
  "did": "did:plc:…",
  "handle": "example.bsky.social",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/example.bsky.social",
  "displayName": "Example",
  "description": "…",
  "followersCount": 1520, "followsCount": 310, "postsCount": 890,
  "relation": "follower",
  "relationOf": "bsky.app",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-27T15:00:00Z"
}

A run summary (items returned per handle or query, accounts not found, errors) is saved as OUTPUT in the key-value store.

Pricing

You pay per item returned. Failed lookups and accounts that were not found are free.

Notes

• Only public data is read, the same data anyone sees on bsky.app without an account. Accounts that hide themselves from logged-out viewers are skipped.
• Requests are paced to respect Bluesky's API rate limits.
• This actor is not affiliated with Bluesky Social PBC.