Bluesky Posts + Profiles Scraper

Extract posts and profiles from Bluesky (bsky.app) using the official AT Protocol public API — no account, no credentials, no proxy spend required.

What it does

• Search posts by keyword, hashtag, or phrase — with optional date range, language filter, and latest/top sort
• Search profiles by keyword — find accounts discussing a topic
• Bulk profile lookup — fetch structured data for a list of known @handles
• Unified output — posts and profiles in one dataset with consistent field names

Why use this actor

Competitor actor	Problem	This actor
lexis-solutions/bluesky-users-scraper (91 users)	Profiles only, no posts	Posts + profiles unified
aurumworks/bluesky-scraper	Deprecated	Active maintenance
Others	Missing date filter	since + until supported

Bluesky reached 41M users in 2026 (+302% YoY). It is the fastest-growing alternative social network and increasingly important for brand monitoring, academic research, and AI data pipelines.

Output fields

Posts

Field	Type	Description
uri	string	AT Protocol post URI
url	string	bsky.app permalink
text	string	Post body text
created_at	string	ISO 8601 creation timestamp
author_handle	string	@handle of the author
author_display_name	string	Display name
author_did	string	Decentralized identifier
like_count	integer	Number of likes
reply_count	integer	Number of replies
repost_count	integer	Number of reposts
quote_count	integer	Number of quote posts
has_images	boolean	Whether post contains images
image_urls	array	Full-size image URLs
language	string	BCP-47 language code
tags	array	Hashtag strings

Profiles

Field	Type	Description
did	string	Decentralized identifier
handle	string	@handle
url	string	bsky.app profile link
display_name	string	Display name
description	string	Bio text
avatar_url	string	Avatar image URL
followers_count	integer	Follower count
follows_count	integer	Following count
posts_count	integer	Total posts

Usage example

{
  "mode": "posts",
  "searchTerms": ["AI tools", "#buildinpublic"],
  "maxResultsPerTerm": 1000,
  "sortPosts": "latest",
  "language": "en",
  "since": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.003 per result (post or profile).

Example: 10,000 posts ≈ $30.

Technical notes

• Uses api.bsky.app — the Bluesky AppView public endpoint (the public.api.bsky.app host 403s on post search as of 2026-06)
• Zero proxy cost (AT Protocol is designed for logged-out public access)
• Polite rate limiting (~6 req/sec)
• Automatically stops when the user's spending limit is reached
• Charge limit is respected per result — no overrun

Common use cases

• Brand monitoring — track mentions of your product or company on Bluesky
• Academic research — collect public discourse data for NLP analysis
• RAG pipelines — feed fresh Bluesky content into retrieval-augmented AI systems
• Competitive intelligence — monitor hashtags and topics in your industry
• Influencer discovery — find and profile accounts in a niche
• Sentiment analysis — classify public opinion on trending topics

Data compliance

This actor accesses only public, logged-out data through Bluesky's official public API. No login credentials are used. Suitable for research and business use under Bluesky's standard terms of service for public data.