📸 Pixelfed Profile Scraper

Pixelfed Profile Scraper is a powerful Apify actor that extracts profile information and recent posts from Pixelfed, a decentralized photo-sharing platform. Use it to collect user activity, public metadata, and post insights efficiently.

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🔑 Key Features

• 🔍 Scrape public Pixelfed profiles
• 📝 Extract user bio, follower/following counts, and metadata
• 🖼️ Fetch recent posts including images, captions, timestamps, and engagement
• 📊 Supports multiple profile URLs
• ⚙️ Limit how many posts are scraped per profile

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📥 Input Schema

1{
2    "urls": [
3        {
4            "url": "https://pixelfed.social/cassidyjames?m=collections"
5        }
6    ],
7    "results_limit": 10
8}

📤 Output Schema

1[
2    {
3        "_v": 1,
4        "id": "364630955792510708",
5        "shortcode": "UPbewiH670",
6        "uri": "https://pixelfed.social/p/cassidyjames/364630955792510708",
7        "url": "https://pixelfed.social/p/cassidyjames/364630955792510708",
8        "in_reply_to_id": null,
9        "in_reply_to_account_id": null,
10        "reblog": null,
11        "content": "Playing with cameras",
12        "content_text": "Playing with cameras",
13        "created_at": "2021-11-12T04:33:14.000Z",
14        "emojis": [],
15        "reblogs_count": 0,
16        "favourites_count": 17,
17        "reblogged": null,
18        "favourited": null,
19        "muted": null,
20        "sensitive": false,
21        "spoiler_text": "",
22        "visibility": "public",
23        "application": {
24            "name": "web",
25            "website": null
26        },
27        "language": null,
28        "mentions": [],
29        "pf_type": "photo",
30        "reply_count": 0,
31        "comments_disabled": false,
32        "thread": false,
33        "replies": [],
34        "parent": [],
35        "place": null,
36        "local": true,
37        "taggedPeople": [],
38        "label": {
39            "covid": false
40        },
41        "liked_by": {
42            "id": "206690801571467264",
43            "username": "storchp",
44            "url": "/i/web/profile/206690801571467264",
45            "others": true,
46            "total_count": 16,
47            "total_count_pretty": "16"
48        },
49        "media_attachments": [
50            {
51                "id": "827807",
52                "type": "image",
53                "url": "https://pxscdn.com/public/m/_v2/262/yNGkDgwxYQJby5Hlh2.jpg",
54                "remote_url": null,
55                "preview_url": "https://pxscdn.com/public/m/_v2/262whVdfpDn4ljp9YSmu7mlHJby5Hlh2_thumb.jpg",
56                "optimized_url": "https://pxscdn.com/public/m/_v2.jpg",
57                "text_url": null,
58                "meta": {
59                    "focus": {
60                        "x": 0,
61                        "y": 0
62                    },
63                    "original": {
64                        "width": 1025,
65                        "height": 1350,
66                        "size": "1025x1350",
67                        "aspect": 0.7592592592592593
68                    }
69                },
70                "description": null,
71                "license": {
72                    "id": 12,
73                    "title": "CC BY-SA",
74                    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
75                },
76                "is_nsfw": 0,
77                "orientation": "portrait",
78                "filter_name": null,
79                "filter_class": null,
80                "mime": "image/jpeg",
81                "blurhash": "UHGj~P0MIU-nlC,+IoJCyERis,of?aIVxZs,"
82            }
83        ],
84        "tags": [],
85        "poll": null,
86        "edited_at": null,
87        "pinned": false,
88        "account": {
89            "id": "262",
90            "username": "cassidyjames",
91            "acct": "cassidyjames",
92            "display_name": "Cassidy James Blaede",
93            "discoverable": true,
94            "locked": false,
95            "followers_count": 487,
96            "following_count": 20,
97            "statuses_count": 243,
98            "note": "Building useful, usable, delightful products that respect privacy. Partner",
99            "note_text": "Building useful, usable, delightful products that respect privacy",
100            "url": "https://pixelfed.social/cassidyjames",
101            "avatar": "https://pixelfed.social/storage/avatars/000/000/000/000/000",
102            "website": "https://cassidyjames.com",
103            "local": true,
104            "is_admin": false,
105            "created_at": "2018-06-01T18:41:11.000000Z",
106            "header_bg": "mauve",
107            "last_fetched_at": "2023-06-28T11:04:42.000000Z",
108            "pronouns": ["he", "him", "his"],
109            "location": null
110        }
111    }
112]

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