Threads Keyword Search

Search Threads for the words and phrases your buyers, competitors, and prospects use, and get one flat row per post that actually contains them: the text, the author, the publish date, likes, replies, reposts, quotes, and the post link. A post found by several keywords comes back once. Rows export to CSV or drop into a Clay table, a CRM import, or a social listening sheet.

Features

• Keyword search on Threads. Up to 50 keywords per run, each searched the way Threads search works for a visitor.
• Only posts that contain your keyword. Threads search also returns posts that only loosely relate to the words you typed. By default a post is kept only when your keyword is in its text, words next to each other and in order, with case and punctuation ignored, so cold email matches Cold-emails. Choose all words in any order, or off to keep every result. Posts set aside are not charged.
• No duplicates. A post found by several keywords is returned once, and matched_keywords lists every keyword it matched.
• Filters. Only posts from the last N days, a minimum like count, and replies on or off.
• Only new posts. On a schedule, a post an earlier run returned is skipped and not charged, so each run returns what is new.
• One summary row per keyword. A free row per keyword says how many posts Threads returned, how many were delivered, and how many were set aside and why.
• Cost guards. Max posts per keyword and a max charge per run.

How Threads is read

The actor opens the public Threads search page for each keyword, the page a browser that is not logged in sees, through the Apify proxy, and reads the posts the page carries. No Threads or Instagram account, no login, and no key are used, and no other developer's actor is called. A search the proxy pool cannot get through is retried on residential addresses.

Threads shows a visitor who is not logged in one page of results per search, about 20 to 25 posts, ranked by Threads. So each keyword returns at most about 25 posts per run. Use more specific keywords, several phrasings of one idea, or a schedule with Only new posts on to collect more over time.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
keywords	array		Words or phrases to search for, up to 50
max_posts_per_keyword	number	25	Posts per keyword, up to 50 (Threads shows about 20 to 25)
match_mode	string	phrase	phrase, all_words, or off
since_days	number		Set aside posts older than this many days
min_likes	number		Set aside posts with fewer likes
include_replies	true or false	true	Return matching replies too
only_new	true or false	false	Skip posts an earlier run returned (free)
state_key	string		Name for the only new posts memory
max_charge_usd	string		Stop before a charge that would pass this amount
proxy_mode	string	auto	auto or residential. A reliability setting; it does not change what you pay

Output

Field	Type	Example
row_type	string	post, keyword_summary, or run_summary
keyword	string	cold email
matched_keywords	array	["cold email"]
match_type	string	phrase, all_words, or none
post_id	string	4017881578785193848
post_code	string	DfCYgIdE794
post_url	string	https://www.threads.com/@devinpcrudup/post/DfCYgIdE794
text	string	One cold email changed everything for me.
author_username	string	devinpcrudup
author_full_name	string	Devin P. Crudup
author_is_verified	true or false	false
author_profile_url	string	https://www.threads.com/@devinpcrudup
published_at	string	2026-10-28T12:00:30.000Z
like_count	number	7
reply_count	number	2
repost_count	number	1
quote_count	number	0
media_type	string	text, image, video, carousel, or other
link_url	string	the link the post shares
is_reply	true or false	false
is_new	true or false	true with Only new posts on
posts_found, rows_delivered, skipped_seen, skipped_filtered	number	keyword summary counts
row_status	string	ok, no_results, no_change, partial, blocked, or error
error_reason	string	why a summary row is not ok
billable_events_json	string	{"post-row":1}, or {} for a free row
scraped_at	string	when the row was written

Pricing

Pay per event. You pay for post rows and the run start. Keyword summary rows, a refused input, posts set aside by your filters, and posts already delivered with Only new posts on are free.

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold
post-row, one Threads post that contains your keyword	$0.0025	$0.002375	$0.00225	$0.002125
apify-actor-start, once per run (one per GB of memory; the default 256 MB is one)	$0.0015	$0.0015	$0.0015	$0.0015

Per 1,000 posts: $2.50 on the free plan, $2.13 on Gold.

Free plan cap: 1.50 USD of evaluation a month, about 600 post rows. Any paid Apify plan removes the cap, and it resets on the 1st. The run stops before a charge that passes your maximum charge per run in Apify or your max_charge_usd.

Mamba Labs pays the platform costs of your run, Apify proxy traffic included.

Usage examples

Apify Console or API.

{
  "keywords": ["cold email", "lead generation", "hubspot alternative"],
  "match_mode": "phrase",
  "since_days": 30,
  "only_new": true
}

Read the rows with GET https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/{datasetId}/items.

Clay. Run the actor from a Clay HTTP column or the Apify integration and map the flat columns. Number and on or off inputs are text fields, which is what Clay sends: numbers as text and true or false. A list input takes a JSON list, so put the column inside a one item list.

MCP. The Mamba Labs MCP server @mambalabsdev/mcp-threads-keyword-search exposes the tool search_threads_posts to Claude and other MCP clients.

Error handling

Case	What you get
No keyword, more than 50, or a value the actor cannot read	One free row, row_type run_summary, error_reason starting input_invalid: with what to fix. The run ends successfully and charges nothing but the run start
Threads returns no posts for a keyword	A free summary row, row_status no_results
Every post is set aside by your filters	A free summary row, row_status no_results, with the counts
Threads refuses a search	Retried on a new address, then on residential addresses; if every route refuses, a free summary row with row_status blocked
No new posts with Only new posts on	A free summary row, row_status no_change
The run is close to its timeout	The actor stops starting new searches 90 seconds before the timeout and delivers what it has

Limitations

• About 20 to 25 posts per keyword per run: Threads shows a visitor who is not logged in one page of results, ranked by Threads, not newest first.
• Some short or unusual keywords return no posts to a visitor who is not logged in, even when posts with those words exist.
• Like, reply, and repost counts are read at the time of the run.
• Posts from private profiles are not shown by Threads search, so they are not returned.

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