Threads Search Scraper — search Threads posts by keyword or hashtag, no login

Search Threads the way its own search box does and get the matching posts back as structured data. This Threads search scraper (a Threads.net scraper, now threads.com) takes keywords, phrases or hashtags and returns every post Threads shows for them: text, author, likes, replies, reposts, quotes, media URLs, links and mentions. People use it for brand and keyword monitoring, trend and hashtag research, creator discovery, and building Threads datasets for analysis or AI agents.

Give it a query such as nature or #photography and get back the Top, Recent or Tags results, or all three de-duplicated, as JSON, CSV or Excel. No Threads account, cookies or API key needed.

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🚀 Key Features

• 🔎 Keywords, hashtags or URLs — search Threads posts by any word or phrase, a #hashtag (with or without the #), or paste a threads.com/search?q=... URL
• 🗂️ Every search tab — read the Top, Recent or Tags tab, or all three in one run with duplicates removed
• 🧾 Full post data — text, publish time, like / reply / repost / quote / reshare counts, image and video URLs, link previews, hashtags, mentions and URLs in the text
• 👤 Author details on every post — username, display name, user ID, verified and private flags, profile picture and profile URL
• 📑 Per-query limits — maxItems caps posts per search query, not per run, so a list of queries stays balanced
• 💬 Replies optional — keep only top-level posts (default) or also save the replies Threads shows under each result
• 📅 Date window — keep only posts published between postedAfter and postedBefore
• 🛡️ No login, proxy optional — reads what Threads shows a logged-out visitor; Apify datacenter proxies are enough
• 📤 Multiple export formats — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML via the Apify dataset
• 🔁 Schedulable runs — run the same queries hourly or daily to track a topic over time

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👥 Who Is This Actor For?

• 📣 Social media and brand managers — monitor mentions of a brand, product or campaign hashtag on Threads
• 📈 Marketers and trend researchers — see which posts Threads ranks on top for a topic and what is being posted right now
• 🧑‍🎤 Creator and influencer teams — find accounts posting about a niche and measure their engagement
• 🧠 Analysts and data scientists — build keyword datasets for sentiment, share-of-voice or content studies
• 🤖 AI builders — feed fresh Threads posts on a topic into an agent, a RAG pipeline or a summarisation workflow

💡 Common Use Cases

• Scrape Threads posts that mention a brand name and export them to a spreadsheet every morning
• Track a hashtag such as #photography and log the most-liked posts each week
• Search Threads for a competitor's product and collect the replies people leave
• Collect Threads keyword search results for a news topic to see what is spreading
• Discover creators who post about a niche by searching the Tags tab and sorting by followers later in your own pipeline

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🔗 Supported query types

Query type	Example
Keyword or phrase	nature, climate change
Hashtag	#photography or photography with search type tags
Threads search URL	https://www.threads.com/search?q=climate%20change&serp_type=default (the URL's tab wins over searchType)
Threads tag URL	https://www.threads.com/tags/nature

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
searchQueries	Array	Keywords, phrases, hashtags (with or without #) or Threads search URLs. Each query is searched separately.	Required
searchType	String	Which Threads search tab to read: top, recent, tags or all (Top, Recent and Tags in that order, de-duplicated).	top
maxItems	Integer	Maximum number of posts to save per search query.	20
includeReplies	Boolean	Also save the replies Threads shows under matching posts as their own items.	false
postedAfter	String	Keep only posts published on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD, UTC).	—
postedBefore	String	Keep only posts published before this date (YYYY-MM-DD, UTC).	—
proxyConfiguration	Object	Proxy for Threads requests. Apify datacenter proxies are enough.	{ "useApifyProxy": true }

Example Input

{
  "searchQueries": ["nature", "#photography"],
  "searchType": "all",
  "maxItems": 40,
  "includeReplies": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

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📤 Output

Each dataset item is one Threads post:

Field	Type	Description
id	String	Threads post ID.
code	String	Post shortcode, the last part of the post URL.
url	String	Public post URL.
text	String	Post text. Empty for media-only posts.
createdAt	String	Publish time as an ISO 8601 timestamp (UTC).
timestamp	Integer	Publish time as unix seconds.
likeCount	Integer	Likes.
replyCount	Integer	Direct replies.
repostCount	Integer	Reposts.
quoteCount	Integer	Quote posts.
reshareCount	Integer	Shares outside Threads.
username	String	Author username.
fullName	String	Author display name, or null when Threads does not include it.
userId	String	Author user ID.
isVerified	Boolean	Author has a verified badge.
isPrivate	Boolean	Author's profile is private.
profilePicUrl	String	Author profile picture URL.
profileUrl	String	Author profile URL.
mediaType	String	text, image, video or carousel.
hasMedia	Boolean	The post carries at least one image or video.
mediaCount	Integer	Number of media attachments.
images	Array	Image URLs at the largest size Threads serves; video posts include their poster frame.
videos	Array	Direct video URLs.
hasAudio	Boolean	A video has an audio track.
accessibilityCaption	String	Threads' alt-text for the media, when present.
hashtags	Array	Hashtags found in the text, without #.
mentions	Array	Usernames mentioned in the text, without @.
urls	Array	Links in the text.
linkPreview	Object	{ url, displayUrl, title, imageUrl } of the attached link card, or null.
isReply	Boolean	The item is a reply to another post.
replyToUsername	String	Username the reply answers, or null.
rootPostCode	String	Shortcode of the post a reply belongs to, when it was in the same search result.
threadId	String	ID of the conversation the post belongs to.
isQuotePost	Boolean	The post quotes another post.
quotedPostUrl	String	URL of the quoted post, or null.
isEdited	Boolean	The text was edited after posting.
isPaidPartnership	Boolean	Marked as a paid partnership.
replyControl	String	Who may reply: everyone, accounts_you_follow or mentioned_only.
searchQuery	String	The query, exactly as given in the input.
searchType	String	The tab the post came from: top, recent or tags.
scrapedAt	String	When the post was scraped (ISO 8601).

Example Output

{
  "id": "3914153076311647543",
  "code": "DZR3XweDuU3",
  "url": "https://www.threads.com/@__neha_t.r.__/post/DZR3XweDuU3",
  "text": "‘‘‘🍂🦋’’’\n …☘️𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞🍂…",
  "createdAt": "2026-06-07T09:10:29.000Z",
  "timestamp": 1780823429,
  "likeCount": 295,
  "replyCount": 15,
  "repostCount": 3,
  "quoteCount": 0,
  "reshareCount": 20,
  "username": "__neha_t.r.__",
  "fullName": "⇨¨*:·.η︎ҽⲏ𝖆 ♡",
  "userId": "80785690060",
  "isVerified": false,
  "isPrivate": false,
  "profilePicUrl": "https://instagram.fadd1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-19/657724346_17856282243690061_615697399606468911_n.jpg?...",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.threads.com/@__neha_t.r.__",
  "mediaType": "carousel",
  "hasMedia": true,
  "mediaCount": 3,
  "images": [
    "https://instagram.fadd1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-15/719009716_17865345288690061_1741070913251517281_n.webp?...",
    "https://instagram.fadd1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-15/719202633_17865345306690061_1719386697182439391_n.webp?...",
    "https://instagram.fadd1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-15/719099709_17865345297690061_3947244394621738741_n.webp?..."
  ],
  "videos": [],
  "hasAudio": false,
  "accessibilityCaption": null,
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "urls": [],
  "linkPreview": null,
  "isReply": false,
  "replyToUsername": null,
  "rootPostCode": null,
  "threadId": "3914153076311647543",
  "isQuotePost": false,
  "quotedPostUrl": null,
  "isEdited": false,
  "isPaidPartnership": false,
  "replyControl": "everyone",
  "searchQuery": "nature",
  "searchType": "top",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-03T23:29:12.612Z"
}

You can export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML from the Apify Console or via the Apify API.

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💰 Pricing

This Actor is pay per event (you pay per result): $0.002 per post, so 1,000 posts cost $2.00 plus Apify platform usage. A free Apify account is enough to try it.

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❓ FAQ

What is the Threads Search Scraper?

It is a Threads search scraper that runs a Threads keyword search for each query you give it and saves the matching public posts as structured data. Think of it as the search box on threads.com with an export button.

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

No. The Actor reads what Threads shows a logged-out visitor, so there is nothing to log in with and no account of yours at risk.

Do I need a proxy?

The default uses Apify datacenter proxies and rotates sessions automatically, which is enough for normal use. Threads rate limits a single IP after many searches in a short time, so keep a proxy on when you run long query lists.

How many results can I get per run?

maxItems caps posts per search query. Threads shows a logged-out visitor one page per search tab, roughly 15 to 35 posts, and offers no further pages, so a single tab cannot exceed that. Use searchType: "all" to read the Top, Recent and Tags tabs together; in our runs that returns several dozen distinct posts per query. Broad queries return more than niche ones, and a query with no matching posts is listed under ERRORS in the run's key-value store.

What is the difference between Top, Recent and Tags?

Top is what Threads ranks highest for the query, usually posts with the most engagement. Recent is the newest posts mentioning the query. Tags is the posts filed under the matching topic tag, which is what a #hashtag search shows on Threads.

Does it handle pagination automatically?

The Actor reads every result Threads serves for a tab and, with searchType: "all", moves on to the next tab until maxItems is reached. Threads does not serve further pages to logged-out visitors, so there is nothing more to paginate.

Can I filter by author or date?

postedAfter and postedBefore keep only posts in a date window. They filter what Threads returned; they do not make Threads search further back in time. Author filtering is a logged-in Threads feature and is not available here; filter on username in the exported data instead.

Why does the Recent tab return posts that only loosely match my query?

Threads search matches on words, tags and topics it associates with the query, so results can include broadly related posts. Narrow the query or add a hashtag when that happens.

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 the site changes and the Actor breaks?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab. Threads changes its site regularly and the Actor is updated when it does.

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🧩 Part of the Threads Scraper Suite

The suite covers public Threads data: posts with their replies, profiles, hashtags and search. Also try:

• Threads Post Scraper — full data and every reply for a single post URL
• Threads Profile Scraper — follower count, bio and the latest posts of a profile
• Threads Hashtag Scraper — posts under a hashtag for trend tracking

See every Goldmine Actor at apify.com/logical_scrapers.

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📷 Image Credit

Image credit: threads.com

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📬 Contact & Support

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