Threads Posts Scraper: A Profile's Whole Post History

Get every post a Threads profile has made, newest first, all the way back to its first post: the text, the date, likes, replies, reposts, quotes, shares, images, videos and links, with the profile's followers, bio and tags on every row. Paste profile links or just usernames. No Threads or Instagram account needed.

Tested daily. Latest checks: one profile's whole history, 192 posts back to its first one; 723 posts from three profiles in under 4 minutes.

What does this Actor do?

You give it Threads profiles. For each one it reads the profile's posts from the newest back, about 4 threads at a time, and saves one row per post until it reaches your limit, your date, or the profile's first post.

A thread on Threads can hold several posts: the first one and the author's own follow-ups underneath it. Each of them is its own row, and rows of the same thread share a thread_id.

Each post comes with:

• its text, link and date, and whether it was edited
• its likes, replies, reposts, quotes and shares
• whether it is text, an image, a video or a carousel, with the image and video links
• the link it shares, the links and accounts named in its text, the post it quotes, its topic tag and its song, when it has them
• who can reply to it, its AI label, and whether it is pinned, a spoiler or a ghost post
• where it sits in its thread
• the author's username, name, ids, picture and verified badge
• the profile's follower count, thread count, bio, tags and picture

Why use it?

• The whole history, not just the latest. This Actor keeps going to a profile's very first post, or stops at your limit or your date.
• Every follow-up in its place. A thread's follow-ups are rows of their own, numbered in thread order, so long threads are not cut to their first post.
• Track a brand, a creator or a competitor. See what they post, how each post does, and how many followers they have.
• Monitor new posts. Run it daily with Only posts newer than set to 1 day.
• Use the data anywhere. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your own tools through Apify's API and integrations.

How to use it

1. Paste one or more profiles into Profile links or usernames: https://www.threads.com/@nasa, threads.net/@nasa, @nasa or nasa all work.
2. Optionally, set Only posts newer than and Max posts per profile.
3. Click Start. When the run ends, open the Output tab to view the posts or download them.

A link to a single post, a search or a tag page is not supported: paste the profile's link or username instead. Put one profile on each line of the list.

Run it with no input to see a sample: up to 20 posts from NASA's profile, charged as usual.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
Profile links or usernames (startUrls)	The profiles to read. Required.	—
Only posts newer than (onlyPostsNewerThan)	A date (YYYY-MM-DD, UTC) or a period (7 days, 2 weeks, 3 months, 1 year). Empty = the whole history	empty
Max posts per profile (maxPostsPerProfile)	Stop reading a profile after this many posts, from 1 to 10,000	100
Only new posts (onlyNewItems)	Return only the posts an earlier run did not; see New items only below	off

Example input:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.threads.com/@nasa", "zuck"],
  "onlyPostsNewerThan": "30 days",
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 500
}

New items only

Turn on Only new posts (onlyNewItems) for a scheduled run, or a re-run of the same task. Each run then returns only the posts it has not returned before: it reads each profile back to a day before the last run that read it, and skips the posts an earlier run saved. Skipped posts are neither saved nor charged; each new post is charged as usual.

• Runs with other settings, or from another task, keep their own list, so two schedules on one profile never skip each other's posts.
• If a profile stops at Max posts per profile, the posts past that point are not returned later. Set the maximum above what one profile gets between runs.
• The list lives in your Apify account, in a key-value store named threads-posts-scraper-monitor. Delete it to start afresh.

Output

One row per post. An example, with made-up values:

{
  "post_id": "3100000000000000001",
  "post_code": "DAbCdEfGhIj",
  "post_fbid": "17900000000000001",
  "url": "https://www.threads.com/@example.brand/post/DAbCdEfGhIj",
  "text": "Our new launch is live today. Read more: example.com/launch",
  "posted_at": "2026-10-13T18:28:06.000Z",
  "is_edited": false,
  "like_count": 4176,
  "reply_count": 17,
  "repost_count": 89,
  "quote_count": 11,
  "reshare_count": 51,
  "like_counts_hidden": false,
  "media_type": "carousel",
  "image_urls": ["https://…/1.jpg", "https://…/2.jpg"],
  "video_urls": [],
  "image_alt_texts": ["A product on a white table"],
  "media_width": 1080,
  "media_height": 1350,
  "has_audio": null,
  "link_url": "https://example.com/launch",
  "link_title": "Our launch",
  "link_image_url": "https://…/preview.jpg",
  "link_favicon_url": "https://…/favicon.png",
  "text_links": ["https://example.com/launch"],
  "mentioned_users": [
    { "username": "example.partner", "id": "70000000002", "profile_pic_url": "https://…/p.jpg" }
  ],
  "topic": "Product News",
  "topic_is_community": false,
  "music_title": null,
  "music_artist": null,
  "music_song_id": null,
  "music_audio_id": null,
  "reply_control": "everyone",
  "ai_detection_method": "NONE",
  "is_spoiler": false,
  "is_ghost_post": false,
  "reply_to_username": null,
  "reply_to_user_id": null,
  "author_username": "example.brand",
  "author_full_name": "Example Brand",
  "author_id": "70000000001",
  "author_fbid": "17800000000000001",
  "author_is_verified": true,
  "author_profile_pic_url": "https://…/avatar.jpg",
  "author_is_meta_ai_bot": false,
  "quoted_post_url": null,
  "quoted_post": null,
  "is_pinned": false,
  "is_pinned_in_thread": false,
  "thread_id": "3100000000000000001",
  "thread_position": 1,
  "profile_follower_count": 48210,
  "profile_thread_count": 312,
  "profile_biography": "Making things people like.",
  "profile_bio_links": [{ "url": "https://example.com", "title": null, "is_verified": false }],
  "profile_tags": ["Product News"],
  "profile_pic_hd_url": "https://…/avatar_640.jpg",
  "source_url": "https://www.threads.com/@example.brand"
}

Field	What it holds
post_id	Threads' id for the post
post_code	The short code in the post's link
post_fbid	Meta's other id for the post
url	The post's page
text	The post's text. null for a post with only media
posted_at	When it was posted (UTC, ISO 8601)
is_edited	true when the author edited the text
like_count	Likes
reply_count	Direct replies
repost_count	Reposts
quote_count	Quotes
reshare_count	Shares (Threads leaves it out on some posts)
like_counts_hidden	true when the author hid the post's like count
media_type	text, image, video or carousel
image_urls	The post's images (for a carousel, one per slide; a video's cover image too)
video_urls	The post's videos
image_alt_texts	The image descriptions Threads gives the post's images, when it has them
media_width, media_height	The size of the post's image or video in pixels. null for a text post
has_audio	For a video, whether it has sound; null for a post with no video
link_url	The web link the post shares, when it has one
link_title	The title of that link's preview card
link_image_url	The image of that link's preview card
link_favicon_url	The site icon on that link's preview card
text_links	Web links written in the post's text
mentioned_users	The accounts the text names: username, id and profile_pic_url for each
topic	The post's topic tag, when it has one
topic_is_community	true when that topic is a Threads community
music_title, music_artist	The song on the post, when it has one
music_song_id	Threads' id for that song
music_audio_id	Threads' id for that song's audio
reply_control	Who may reply, as Threads names it (for example everyone)
ai_detection_method	Threads' AI-content label for the post; NONE when it has none
is_spoiler	true when the post's media is marked as a spoiler
is_ghost_post	true for a ghost post (one set to disappear)
reply_to_username	For a follow-up, the account it answers (usually the profile itself)
reply_to_user_id	That account's id
author_username	The author's username
author_full_name	The author's display name
author_id	Threads' id for the author
author_fbid	Meta's other id for the author
author_is_verified	true when the author has the verified badge
author_profile_pic_url	The author's profile picture
author_is_meta_ai_bot	true when the author is a Meta AI account
quoted_post_url	The post it quotes, when it quotes one
quoted_post	That quoted post's own details (text, date, counts, media, author), in the same field names as a row
is_pinned	true when the author pinned it to their profile
is_pinned_in_thread	true when the post is pinned under the post it answers
thread_id	The thread it belongs to: the same for a post and its author's follow-ups
thread_position	1 for the thread's first post, 2, 3… for the author's follow-ups
profile_follower_count	The profile's followers when it was read
profile_thread_count	The thread count the profile shows (threads, not posts); null when Threads shows it rounded
profile_biography	The profile's bio
profile_bio_links	The links on the profile: url, title and is_verified for each
profile_tags	The topic tags on the profile
profile_pic_hd_url	The profile picture at its largest size
source_url	The profile this post was read from

Not included: the replies other people wrote, the profile's reposts of other people's posts, view counts, polls, and the lyrics of a post's song.

How much does it cost?

No surcharges and no paid options; an item that fails is not charged.

You pay for what you get:

• $2 per 1,000 posts ($0.002 a post). Each post is charged once per run.
• No start fee, and nothing per profile.

So 300 posts from each of 2 profiles cost $1.20. If you set a maximum cost for a run, the Actor stops when it reaches it and keeps every post saved so far.

How long does a run take?

About 4 threads every couple of seconds. A profile with 200 posts takes about a minute or two.

Good to know

• Pinned posts come first. A profile's pinned posts open its list whatever their date. With Only posts newer than set, an older pinned post is left out.
• A profile's post count is in threads, not posts. The "N Threads" on a profile (profile_thread_count) counts threads; with follow-ups, you get more rows than that number. The very end of a long history can come up a few threads short of it.
• Check your input first. A link that is not a Threads profile stops the run before anything is read, and the message names it.
• One profile that cannot be read does not stop the run. A profile that does not exist or is private ends with a message, the others carry on, and the run's status lists the profiles that could not be read. The run fails only when no profile could be read. Such a profile is tried a few times before it is given up, which can add two or three minutes to the run.
• Counts move. Likes, replies and followers are the numbers at the moment the post was read.
• Remove repeats by post_id. A post whose counts change while a run pages past it can appear twice in one run, and a daily run reads recent posts again unless Only new posts is on.

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Use it from an AI agent or the API

One call starts a run and returns its items (Apify waits up to 300 seconds; for a longer run, start it with POST /v2/acts/…/runs and read its dataset):

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/luzivanlt~threads-posts-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>

With the sample input as its JSON body:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.threads.com/@nasa"],
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 20
}

Its inputs, in the order of the input form:

Input	What it takes	Default
startUrls (Profile links or usernames)	Threads profiles to read: links such as https://www.threads.com/@nasa (threads.net links work too), or just the username (nasa or @nasa).	—
onlyPostsNewerThan (Only posts newer than)	Keep only posts from this date on: a date (YYYY-MM-DD, UTC) or a period such as "7 days", "2 weeks", "3 months" or "1 year".	—
maxPostsPerProfile (Max posts per profile)	Stop reading a profile after this many posts.	100
onlyNewItems (Only new posts)	Turn this on for a scheduled run, or a re-run of the same task: each run then returns only the posts it has not returned before, reading each profile back to a day before the last run that read it.	—

Apify's MCP server, https://mcp.apify.com, lists it as luzivanlt/threads-posts-scraper. To give an AI agent this Actor as a tool, add the server to the agent's MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=luzivanlt/threads-posts-scraper"
    }
  }
}

The client signs in with OAuth, or add "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>" }.

Charged per post delivered; the sample input above costs at most $0.04.

FAQ

Do I need a Threads or Instagram account? No. The Actor reads what anyone can see on a public Threads profile.

Can it read private profiles? No, only public ones.

Can I search Threads by keyword or hashtag? Not yet: this Actor reads profiles.

Can I run it from my own code, on a schedule, or with other apps? Yes. Like any Apify Actor, you can start it through the Apify API, run it on a schedule, and connect it to other apps with Apify's integrations and webhooks.

Is it legal to scrape Threads?

This Actor reads only public posts that anyone can see. Posts and profiles hold personal data, such as names, ids and pictures: check Meta's terms and the laws that apply to you (such as the GDPR) before you use the data. If you are unsure, ask a lawyer.

Support

Found a problem or missing a feature? Open an issue on the Issues tab and include the run's link.

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This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Threads, Meta or Instagram.