# Threads Posts Scraper (`logical_scrapers/threads-post-scraper`) Actor

Threads Post Scraper extracts complete data from any public Threads.net post, including caption text, media, engagement metrics, author details, and all replies. giving you accurate and structured output ideal for research, analytics, monitoring conversations, and building datasets at scale.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logical_scrapers/threads-post-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Goldmine](https://apify.com/logical_scrapers) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Marketing, Automation
- **Stats:** 1,875 total users, 379 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 29 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 4.48 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $2.40 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 🧵 Threads Post Scraper — Extract Threads Posts and Replies

![Threads Post Scraper](https://i.ibb.co/C3szknLM/banner.jpg)

This **Threads scraper** turns any public post on **[Threads](https://www.threads.com/)** into structured data. Give it a post URL and it returns the post's text, images, videos, like and reply counts and author details, together with its replies: 100 per post by default, or as many as you set. People use it to track reactions to announcements, collect conversation data for research, and monitor brand mentions in reply threads.

Paste one or more post links from threads.com or threads.net and get back one dataset item per post, ready for **Threads data export** to JSON, CSV or Excel. No login, cookies or API key are needed.

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### 🚀 Key Features

- 🔎 **Any public post URL** — works with both `threads.com` and `threads.net` post links
- 🧾 **Full post data** — text, publish time, post ID and code, images, videos, like count and reply count
- 👤 **Author details** — username, profile picture, verification status and user IDs
- 💬 **Replies included** — up to `maxReplies` replies per post (12 by default), including replies to replies, with the same fields as the post. Replies past the first screen are loaded page by page
- 🛡️ **No login required** — reads only what Threads shows to logged-out visitors; proxies included
- 📤 **Multiple export formats** — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML via the Apify dataset
- 🔁 **Schedulable runs** — re-run on a schedule to watch like and reply counts change over time

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### 👥 Who Is This Actor For?

- 📣 **Social media and marketing teams** — measuring how an announcement landed and what people replied
- 🧠 **Researchers and analysts** — building datasets of public conversations for sentiment or discourse analysis
- 📰 **Journalists** — archiving a post and its replies as a record at a point in time
- 🧰 **Developers** — feeding Threads post data into dashboards, alerts or internal tools
- 🤖 **AI builders** — giving an agent or RAG pipeline the text of a post and its discussion

### 💡 Common Use Cases

- Extract Threads posts and their replies for sentiment analysis
- Track like and reply counts on a brand's launch post over several days
- Collect customer feedback left in replies to a company's post
- Archive a public post and its discussion before it is edited or deleted
- Export a list of post URLs to a spreadsheet with author and engagement data

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### 🔗 Supported URL Types

| URL Type | Example |
| -------- | ------- |
| **Post on threads.com** | `https://www.threads.com/@openai/post/DW7RXR7EnRC` |
| **Post on threads.net** | `https://www.threads.net/@openai/post/DW7RXR7EnRC` |

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### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Description | Default |
| ----- | ---- | ----------- | ------- |
| `startUrls` | Array | The URLs of the Threads posts to scrape. One dataset item is produced per URL. | Required |
| `includeReplies` | Boolean | Return the replies to each post. Set to `false` to get only the post. | `true` |
| `maxReplies` | Integer | The most replies to return **per post URL**, including replies to replies. Each reply is billed as one result. | `12` |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Object | Proxies are included in the price and chosen automatically. Select "Own proxies" to use your own. | `{ "useApifyProxy": true }` |

#### Example Input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.threads.com/@openai/post/DW7RXR7EnRC" }
  ],
  "includeReplies": true,
  "maxReplies": 12,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}
```

***

### 📤 Output

Each dataset item has a `thread` object for the post and a `replies` array. Every post and reply has these fields:

| Field | Type | Description |
| ----- | ---- | ----------- |
| `text` | String | The post text. Posts whose body is a text attachment return that text here. |
| `attachment_text` | String | The text of an attachment the app shows as a collapsed snippet, or `null` when the post has none. |
| `published_on` | Number | Publish time as a Unix timestamp in seconds |
| `id` | String | Full post ID |
| `pk` | String | Numeric post ID |
| `code` | String | Post shortcode, as used in the post URL |
| `username` | String | Author's username |
| `user_pic` | String | Author's profile picture URL |
| `user_verified` | Boolean | Whether the author is verified |
| `user_pk` | String | Author's numeric user ID |
| `user_id` | String | Author's user ID |
| `has_audio` | Boolean | Whether attached video has audio, when present |
| `reply_count` | Number | Number of direct replies to the post |
| `like_count` | Number | Number of likes |
| `images` | Array | Image URLs attached to the post |
| `image_count` | Number | Number of images, including carousel items |
| `videos` | Array | Video URLs attached to the post |
| `has_gif` | Boolean | Whether the post is a GIF. Threads does not serve the GIF file to logged-out visitors, so no GIF URL is returned |
| `gif_description` | String | The GIF's description, e.g. "Laugh Smile GIF by vrt", or `null` when the post has no GIF |
| `url` | String | Link to the post |

#### Example Output

A real item from a run on the example input, with image URL query strings removed and the replies list shortened to one entry:

```json
{
  "thread": {
    "text": "There’s a new Pro tier in town. \n\nTo celebrate the launch, we’re increasing Codex usage for a limited time through May 31st so that Pro $100 subscribers get up to 10x usage of ChatGPT Plus on Codex to build your most ambitious ideas.\n\nOur existing $200 Pro tier still remains our highest usage option. And as a thank you to our existing Pro users on the $200 tier, we’re extending our 2x Codex usage promo (until May 31st) and we’ve reset your Codex rate limits (yes, again).",
    "attachment_text": null,
    "published_on": 1775770338,
    "id": "3871764671238403138_63299409527",
    "pk": "3871764671238403138",
    "code": "DW7RXR7EnRC",
    "username": "openai",
    "user_pic": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-19/788716177_18115256264517701_8401817653356104064_n.jpg",
    "user_verified": true,
    "user_pk": "63299409527",
    "user_id": "63299409527",
    "has_audio": null,
    "reply_count": 27,
    "like_count": 217,
    "images": [
      "https://instagram.fadd2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-15/661617063_18096549797517701_8389667311012176678_n.jpg"
    ],
    "image_count": 1,
    "videos": [],
    "has_gif": false,
    "gif_description": null,
    "url": "https://www.threads.net/@openai/post/DW7RXR7EnRC"
  },
  "replies": [
    {
      "text": "Aw shit MIGHT have to downgrade Claude for that 10x plus. @openai help convince me haha. Make it irrefutable",
      "attachment_text": null,
      "published_on": 1775770627,
      "id": "3871767105461481006_76614717151",
      "pk": "3871767105461481006",
      "code": "DW7R6s-Eu4u",
      "username": "griffinlong.dev",
      "user_pic": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-19/790319655_17943256095321890_5618796657983618003_n.jpg",
      "user_verified": true,
      "user_pk": "76614717151",
      "user_id": "76614717151",
      "has_audio": null,
      "reply_count": 0,
      "like_count": 5,
      "images": [],
      "image_count": 0,
      "videos": [],
      "has_gif": false,
      "gif_description": null,
      "url": "https://www.threads.net/@griffinlong.dev/post/DW7R6s-Eu4u"
    }
  ]
}
```

You can export the dataset as **JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML** from the Apify Console or via the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2).

***

### 💰 Pricing

This Actor is **pay per event**. Each post and each reply saved counts as one result at **$0.0025 per result**, so **1,000 results cost $2.50** plus Apify platform usage. A post returned with the default 12 replies counts as 13 results ($0.0325); with `maxReplies` set to 100 it counts as up to 101 results ($0.2525). Raise `maxReplies` for more replies, or set `includeReplies` to `false` to pay only for the post. A free Apify account is enough to try it.

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### ❓ FAQ

#### What is the Threads Post Scraper?

It is a Threads.net scraper that takes public post URLs and returns each post and its replies as structured data. You can run it from the Apify Console, the API, or on a schedule.

#### Do I need an account, cookies or an API key?

No. The Actor reads only what Threads shows to visitors who are not logged in.

#### Do I need a proxy?

Proxies are included in the price and chosen automatically, so the default works without changes. To use your own proxies, select "Own proxies" in the input and enter their URLs.

#### How many replies do I get per post?

Up to `maxReplies` per post URL, 12 by default, counting replies to replies. The Actor starts with the replies on the post page and loads further pages until it reaches that number or Threads has no more to show to logged-out visitors, so a post can return fewer replies than its `reply_count`. The author's own follow-up posts in the same thread are part of the post, not replies, and are not included.

#### A post shows a long recipe or list in the app. Why was its text missing before?

Threads lets a post carry its body as a text attachment, shown in the app as a collapsed snippet, instead of as a caption. That text now comes back in `text`, and also in `attachment_text` so you can tell the two apart.

#### Why did a post return no data?

Threads does not show some posts to logged-out visitors, and deleted or private posts cannot be read. The run log notes each URL where the post was not found, and nothing is charged for it.

#### Can I extract Threads posts from a profile, hashtag or search?

This Actor takes individual post URLs. To collect posts from a profile or a hashtag, use the other Actors in the Threads Scraper Suite listed below.

#### Can I schedule it or integrate it with my app?

Yes. Every Apify Actor exposes a REST API, webhooks, and integrations with Zapier, Make, Google Sheets and Slack, and can be called from an AI agent via the Apify MCP server.

#### Is it legal to scrape Threads?

This Actor accesses only publicly available pages. You are responsible for making sure your use complies with Threads' terms of service and the laws in your jurisdiction.

#### What if Threads changes and the Actor breaks?

Open an issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab with a post URL that fails, so the problem can be reproduced.

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### 🧩 Part of the Threads Scraper Suite

Actors that turn public Threads pages into structured data. Also try:

- [Threads Profile Scraper](https://apify.com/logical_scrapers/threads-profile-scraper) — profile details, follower stats and recent posts for any public Threads user
- [Threads Hashtag Scraper](https://apify.com/logical_scrapers/threads-hashtag-scraper) — posts published under a Threads hashtag
- [Threads Search Scraper](https://apify.com/logical_scrapers/threads-search-scraper) — posts matching a keyword in Threads search

See every Goldmine Actor at [apify.com/logical_scrapers](https://apify.com/logical_scrapers).

***

### 📷 Image Credit

Image credit: [threads.com](https://www.threads.com/)

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### 📬 Contact & Support

- **Issues & feature requests**: use the Issues tab on this Actor's page. Include a post URL that fails so it can be reproduced.
- **Email**: `coredev.dan@gmail.com`
- **If this Actor saved you time, please leave a ⭐ rating on the Apify Store.** It helps us keep it maintained.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

The URLs of the Threads posts to scrape.

## `includeReplies` (type: `boolean`):

Return the replies to each post. Replies beyond those shown on the post page are loaded page by page, up to "Max replies per post".

## `maxReplies` (type: `integer`):

The most replies to return for each post, including replies to replies. Each reply is billed as one result. Fewer are returned when the post has fewer replies or Threads stops showing more to logged-out visitors.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxies are included in the price and chosen automatically, so you can leave this as it is. To route requests through your own proxies, select "Own proxies" and enter their URLs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.threads.com/@openai/post/DW7RXR7EnRC"
    }
  ],
  "includeReplies": true,
  "maxReplies": 12,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.threads.com/@openai/post/DW7RXR7EnRC"
        }
    ],
    "maxReplies": 12,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("logical_scrapers/threads-post-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.threads.com/@openai/post/DW7RXR7EnRC" }],
    "maxReplies": 12,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("logical_scrapers/threads-post-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.threads.com/@openai/post/DW7RXR7EnRC"
    }
  ],
  "maxReplies": 12,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call logical_scrapers/threads-post-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,logical_scrapers/threads-post-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/7xFgGDhba8W5ZvOke/builds/yAuk2RfwF5dRzTBQa/openapi.json