📸 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

{
    "urls": [
        {
            "url": "https://pixelfed.social/cassidyjames?m=collections"
        }
    ],
    "results_limit": 10
}

📤 Output Schema

[
    {
        "_v": 1,
        "id": "364630955792510708",
        "shortcode": "UPbewiH670",
        "uri": "https://pixelfed.social/p/cassidyjames/364630955792510708",
        "url": "https://pixelfed.social/p/cassidyjames/364630955792510708",
        "in_reply_to_id": null,
        "in_reply_to_account_id": null,
        "reblog": null,
        "content": "Playing with cameras",
        "content_text": "Playing with cameras",
        "created_at": "2021-11-12T04:33:14.000Z",
        "emojis": [],
        "reblogs_count": 0,
        "favourites_count": 17,
        "reblogged": null,
        "favourited": null,
        "muted": null,
        "sensitive": false,
        "spoiler_text": "",
        "visibility": "public",
        "application": {
            "name": "web",
            "website": null
        },
        "language": null,
        "mentions": [],
        "pf_type": "photo",
        "reply_count": 0,
        "comments_disabled": false,
        "thread": false,
        "replies": [],
        "parent": [],
        "place": null,
        "local": true,
        "taggedPeople": [],
        "label": {
            "covid": false
        },
        "liked_by": {
            "id": "206690801571467264",
            "username": "storchp",
            "url": "/i/web/profile/206690801571467264",
            "others": true,
            "total_count": 16,
            "total_count_pretty": "16"
        },
        "media_attachments": [
            {
                "id": "827807",
                "type": "image",
                "url": "https://pxscdn.com/public/m/_v2/262/yNGkDgwxYQJby5Hlh2.jpg",
                "remote_url": null,
                "preview_url": "https://pxscdn.com/public/m/_v2/262whVdfpDn4ljp9YSmu7mlHJby5Hlh2_thumb.jpg",
                "optimized_url": "https://pxscdn.com/public/m/_v2.jpg",
                "text_url": null,
                "meta": {
                    "focus": {
                        "x": 0,
                        "y": 0
                    },
                    "original": {
                        "width": 1025,
                        "height": 1350,
                        "size": "1025x1350",
                        "aspect": 0.7592592592592593
                    }
                },
                "description": null,
                "license": {
                    "id": 12,
                    "title": "CC BY-SA",
                    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
                },
                "is_nsfw": 0,
                "orientation": "portrait",
                "filter_name": null,
                "filter_class": null,
                "mime": "image/jpeg",
                "blurhash": "UHGj~P0MIU-nlC,+IoJCyERis,of?aIVxZs,"
            }
        ],
        "tags": [],
        "poll": null,
        "edited_at": null,
        "pinned": false,
        "account": {
            "id": "262",
            "username": "cassidyjames",
            "acct": "cassidyjames",
            "display_name": "Cassidy James Blaede",
            "discoverable": true,
            "locked": false,
            "followers_count": 487,
            "following_count": 20,
            "statuses_count": 243,
            "note": "Building useful, usable, delightful products that respect privacy. Partner",
            "note_text": "Building useful, usable, delightful products that respect privacy",
            "url": "https://pixelfed.social/cassidyjames",
            "avatar": "https://pixelfed.social/storage/avatars/000/000/000/000/000",
            "website": "https://cassidyjames.com",
            "local": true,
            "is_admin": false,
            "created_at": "2018-06-01T18:41:11.000000Z",
            "header_bg": "mauve",
            "last_fetched_at": "2023-06-28T11:04:42.000000Z",
            "pronouns": ["he", "him", "his"],
            "location": null
        }
    }
]

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