🧵 Threads Scraper — Extract Posts, Profiles & Engagement Data

The first and only Threads web scraper on the Apify Store. Extract public posts, profile feeds, media, and engagement metrics from Threads by Meta — the fastest-growing social platform with 275M+ monthly active users.

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🚀 Why Threads?

Threads is exploding. Brands, researchers, marketers, and AI companies are desperate for Threads data — but nobody has built a scraper yet. You're looking at the first mover advantage.

Use Case	Who Needs It
📊 Brand Monitoring	Marketing teams tracking mentions and sentiment
🧠 AI Training Data	LLM companies need fresh conversational data
🔍 Competitor Research	Social media managers analyzing rival strategies
📈 Influencer Analytics	Agencies tracking engagement rates
🏷️ Trend Detection	Journalists and trend forecasters
💼 Lead Generation	Sales teams finding prospects in conversations

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✨ Features

Feature	Description
🔍 Keyword Search	Search Threads by keyword or hashtag — find posts about any topic
📥 Profile Scraping	Extract all posts from any public Threads profile
🔗 Post URLs	Scrape individual threads by direct URL
💬 Reply Thread Extraction	Extract full conversation trees under any post
♾️ Infinite Scroll	Automatically loads more posts as you scroll
🖼️ Media Extraction	Get high-res image URLs (srcset) and video URLs from posts
👤 Profile Metadata	Bio, follower count, display name — automatically captured
📅 Timestamps	Every post includes exact creation date
❤️ Engagement Metrics	Like, reply, and repost counts on every post
📋 Structured Output	Clean JSON/CSV/Excel via Apify dataset
📊 Analytics Dashboard	Free interactive dashboard with charts (see below)
⏰ Scheduled Runs	Monitor profiles or keywords daily/weekly via Apify scheduler
🔌 Integrations	Zapier, Make, n8n, LangChain, LlamaIndex
🛡️ Proxy Support	Residential proxies to avoid rate limiting

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🔧 How to Use

1️⃣ Quick Start (One Profile)

Input:
  usernames: ["zuck"]
  maxPostsPerProfile: 20

↓ Output (JSON)

{
  "id": "C6Tt8xRRJXA",
  "authorUsername": "zuck",
  "text": "Threads now has 275M+ monthly active users! Thanks for building this community with us 🧵",
  "url": "https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C6Tt8xRRJXA",
  "createdAt": "2025-06-15T14:30:00.000Z",
  "likeCount": 124500,
  "replyCount": 8450,
  "repostCount": 3200,
  "imageUrls": ["https://...threads.net/media.jpg"],
  "type": "post",
  "profile": "zuck",
  "scrapedAt": "2025-06-15T15:00:00.000Z"
}

2️⃣ Multiple Profiles + Replies

Input:
  usernames: ["zuck", "nike", "nasa", "elonmusk"]
  maxPostsPerProfile: 50
  includeReplies: true
  includeMediaInfo: true

3️⃣ Search by Keyword

Input:
  searchKeywords: ["AI", "crypto", "photography"]
  maxPostsPerProfile: 30
  includeReplies: true

Returns all recent public posts matching each keyword, with full reply threads.

4️⃣ Individual Posts

Input:
  postUrls: [
    "https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C6Tt8xRRJXA",
    "https://www.threads.net/@nike/post/C6Tt7xRRJXB"
  ]

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📦 Output Fields

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Unique post identifier
authorUsername	string	Threads username (without @)
text	string	Post caption/content
url	string	Direct link to the post
createdAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp
likeCount	integer	Number of likes
replyCount	integer	Number of replies
repostCount	integer	Number of reposts
imageUrls	array	List of image URLs
videoUrls	array	List of video URLs
type	string	"post" or "reply"
profile	string	Source profile
replies	array	Reply objects (if includeReplies=true)
scrapedAt	string	When data was extracted

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💰 Pricing

Tier	Price	What You Get
🆓 Free	$0	10 profile runs per month (up to 20 posts each)
🚀 Starter	~$2/1,000 posts	Regular extraction for small teams
📊 Pro	Custom volume	Enterprise-scale monitoring

Platform compute costs are separate — the Scraper is optimized for efficiency.

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📊 Free Analytics Dashboard

Turn your scraped Threads data into interactive charts and insights — no signup, no backend, just paste your Dataset ID.

👉 Launch Dashboard →

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  🧵 Threads Analytics                          📊 ONLINE │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ │
│  │ 30   │ │ 12.5K│ │ 3.2K │ │ 1.8K │ │ 583  │ │ 15   │ │
│  │Posts │ │Likes │ │Replies│ │Repost│ │AvgEng│ │Media │ │
│  └──────┘ └──────┘ └──────┘ └──────┘ └──────┘ └──────┘ │
│                                                         │
│  📈 Engagement Over Time           🍩 Engagement Split  │
│  ╱╲    ╱╲                                                │
│ ╱  ╲  ╱  ╲                          ● Likes    75%     │
│╱    ╲╱    ╲                         ● Replies  18%     │
│                                     ● Reposts   7%     │
│  🔥 Top Posts                      📅 Posting Days     │
│  ┌─────────────────────┐           ██ ██ ██ █■■ ██    │
│  │"Just launched..."   │❤️12K     Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri  │
│  │"Big news today..."  │❤️8K                           │
│  │"New research..."    │❤️5K       📋 All Posts        │
│  └─────────────────────┘    Date │ Text │ ❤️ │ 💬 │ 🔄│
│                             06/23│"New AI..."│12K│4K│1K│
│  🖼️ Media Gallery              06/16│"500M..."│18K│5K│1K│
│  [img] [img] [img] [img]                               │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

How to use:

1. Run the Threads Scraper → copy the Dataset ID from the run's Storage tab
2. Open the Dashboard in your browser
3. Paste the Dataset ID → click Load Dashboard
4. See 5 interactive charts + posts table + media gallery

For private datasets, also paste your Apify API token (Settings → API). Or make the dataset public in Storage tab.

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🔗 Integrations

Platform	Integration
🦜🔗 LangChain / LlamaIndex	Feed Threads data directly into RAG pipelines
⚡ Zapier / Make	Connect to 5,000+ apps
🔧 n8n	Self-hosted automation workflows
🐍 Python / JavaScript SDK	Build custom applications
🤖 AI Agents	MCP server support for AI agent data pipelines

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⚠️ Data Compliance

This Actor extracts publicly available Threads profile data — the same information visible to anyone visiting threads.net. Respect Threads' Terms of Service and Meta's Automated Data Collection Terms when using extracted data.

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🧑‍💻 Need Help?

• Apify Documentation
• Discord Community
• Report an Issue

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