# Truth Social Public Posts Scraper (`mellora/truth-social-public-posts-scraper`) Actor

Extracts public posts, profiles and search results from Truth Social into structured JSON for monitoring and research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mellora/truth-social-public-posts-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [James Barnes](https://apify.com/mellora) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 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.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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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

## Truth Social Public Posts Scraper

Monitor what public Truth Social accounts and hashtags are posting, and get it as clean structured JSON. Use it for media monitoring, political research, sentiment analysis and archiving. It reads only what a logged-out visitor can see.

### Sample output

```json
{
    "type": "post",
    "source": "@realDonaldTrump",
    "id": "112233445566778899",
    "url": "https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112233445566778899",
    "created_at": "2024-05-01T14:03:22.000Z",
    "text": "Example post text...",
    "language": "en",
    "is_reply": false,
    "is_reblog": false,
    "replies_count": 1200,
    "reblogs_count": 3400,
    "favourites_count": 15000,
    "tags": [],
    "mentions": [],
    "media": [],
    "author_username": "realDonaldTrump",
    "author_display_name": "Donald J. Trump",
    "author_verified": true,
    "author_followers": 7000000
}
```

(Illustrative values; real runs return the live data.)

### Input

- **Usernames**: accounts to extract (names or profile URLs).
- **Hashtags**: public hashtag timelines to extract.
- **Max posts per username / hashtag** and **Max items in total**: control volume and cost.
- **Include profile records**: adds one profile item (bio, follower/following/post counts) per username.
- **Include replies / Include re-truths**: filter the content.
- **Use Apify Proxy**: Truth Social may block datacenter traffic. The Actor tries direct first and falls back to the Apify residential proxy automatically; switch this on to use it from the start.

At least one username or hashtag is required.

### Output

One dataset item per post (`type: "post"`) or profile (`type: "profile"`), with text, HTML, timestamps, engagement counts, media URLs, link cards, tags, mentioned handles and author info.

### Pricing

$0.002 per result (dataset item), charged by the platform. Set **Max items in total** to cap spend.

### Limits

- Public data only; no login, no private or deleted content.
- Free-text search is not included because it requires a login; use hashtags instead.
- Truth Social may rate limit or block requests. The Actor backs off on 429s and never solves CAPTCHAs. If access stays blocked, the run ends with a clear error.
- Requests are paced (about one page of 40 posts per 1.5 seconds).
- Availability of endpoints depends on Truth Social and can change without notice.

# Actor input Schema

## `usernames` (type: `array`):

Truth Social usernames (or profile URLs) whose public posts to extract, e.g. realDonaldTrump.

## `hashtags` (type: `array`):

Hashtags (without #) whose public timelines to extract.

## `maxItemsPerSource` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of posts to collect for each username or hashtag (1-1000).

## `maxItemsTotal` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on the total number of dataset items, which also caps your cost (1-5000).

## `includeProfiles` (type: `boolean`):

Also output one profile record (bio, follower counts) per username. Each record counts as one result.

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

Include the account's replies to other posts.

## `includeReblogs` (type: `boolean`):

Include posts the account re-shared (ReTruths).

## `useApifyProxy` (type: `boolean`):

Route all requests through Apify residential proxy. If off, the Actor tries direct requests and switches to the proxy automatically when blocked.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "usernames": [
    "realDonaldTrump"
  ],
  "hashtags": [],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 40,
  "maxItemsTotal": 500,
  "includeProfiles": false,
  "includeReplies": false,
  "includeReblogs": true,
  "useApifyProxy": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "usernames": [
        "realDonaldTrump"
    ],
    "hashtags": [],
    "maxItemsPerSource": 40,
    "maxItemsTotal": 500
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("mellora/truth-social-public-posts-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 = {
    "usernames": ["realDonaldTrump"],
    "hashtags": [],
    "maxItemsPerSource": 40,
    "maxItemsTotal": 500,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("mellora/truth-social-public-posts-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 '{
  "usernames": [
    "realDonaldTrump"
  ],
  "hashtags": [],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 40,
  "maxItemsTotal": 500
}' |
apify call mellora/truth-social-public-posts-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,mellora/truth-social-public-posts-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/9fTkD5QqhO3qgWJWn/builds/mPIu2iowy6EeGWjf6/openapi.json