Mastodon Scraper

Scrape posts, profiles, and hashtag feeds from Mastodon instances using the public API. No authentication required.

🚀 Features

• Search by hashtags - Find posts about any topic across the fediverse
• Scrape user accounts - Get all posts from specific accounts
• Multi-instance support - Works with any Mastodon instance
• Engagement metrics - Replies, reblogs, favourites
• Media extraction - Images, videos, GIFs
• No authentication required - Uses public Mastodon API

💰 Pricing

• FREE: First 100 posts per run
• $0.001 per post after free tier ($1 per 1,000 posts)
• $0.05 platform fee per run

📊 Output Schema

Each post includes:

{
  "id": "1093849203849283",
  "uri": "https://mastodon.social/users/gargron/statuses/1093849203849283",
  "url": "https://mastodon.social/@gargron/1093849203849283",
  "text": "Hello from the fediverse!",
  "createdAt": "2022-11-15T10:30:00.000Z",
  "author": {
    "id": "1",
    "username": "gargron",
    "acct": "gargron@mastodon.social",
    "displayName": "Eugen Rochko",
    "avatar": "https://...",
    "followersCount": 124500,
    "followingCount": 234,
    "statusesCount": 5234,
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@gargron"
  },
  "engagement": {
    "replies": 45,
    "reblogs": 123,
    "favourites": 567
  },
  "tags": ["opensource", "linux"],
  "media": [
    { "type": "image", "url": "https://...", "previewUrl": "https://..." }
  ],
  "isBoost": false,
  "isReply": false,
  "source": "hashtag:opensource",
  "instance": "mastodon.social",
  "crawledAt": "2026-02-20T12:00:00.000Z"
}

📝 Example Use Cases

• Fediverse research - Study decentralized social media trends
• Brand monitoring - Track mentions across Mastodon instances
• Community analysis - Analyze hashtag usage and engagement
• Content aggregation - Build Mastodon content feeds
• Academic research - Study federated social networks

🔗 Links

• Mastodon
• Mastodon API Docs

Support

Having issues? Contact the developer or report an issue on the Apify platform.