🦋 Bluesky Scraper — Posts, Profiles & Social Graph

Structured data from the fastest-growing decentralized social network. $0.005 per item.

Scrape Bluesky (AT Protocol) for posts, profiles, search results, followers, and social graphs. No login, no API key, no OAuth — powered by Bluesky's public AT Protocol endpoints.

Perfect for social listening on the post-Twitter open social web, audience research, community mapping, influencer discovery, and backing up your own Bluesky content.

🚀 What does this Actor do?

Bluesky is growing into the open alternative to X/Twitter, and unlike the old Twitter API era, its data is publicly accessible. This Actor turns that into a structured, scheduled data source across four capabilities:

• Profile scraping — Pass a list of handles (jay.bsky.team, pfrazee.com, any custom-domain handle) and get profile metadata + recent posts with engagement.
• Search — Full-text search across Bluesky posts with author info, timestamps, and content.
• Social graph extraction — Pull followers and/or following lists (up to 2,000 per account) for community mapping.
• Bulk mode — Multiple profiles in one run with per-profile post limits.

All output is JSON, ready to load into Notion, Airtable, a vector DB, or a BI dashboard.

💡 Use Cases

1. Brand & keyword listening on open social

Track mentions of your brand, product, or industry keywords on Bluesky — the platform where a lot of the tech, media, and AI conversation has migrated.

{
  "searchQuery": "retrieval augmented generation",
  "maxSearchResults": 200
}

2. Influencer & community mapping

Identify who drives conversation in a niche by pulling follower graphs of known accounts and finding the overlap.

{
  "handles": ["dril.bsky.social", "pfrazee.com"],
  "includeFollowers": true,
  "maxFollowers": 2000,
  "maxPosts": 0
}

3. Content archiving & compliance

Back up your own Bluesky post history, or archive a journalist's / public figure's posts for research or compliance.

{
  "handles": ["your-handle.bsky.social"],
  "maxPosts": 500
}

4. Competitive & trend monitoring

Schedule a weekly run against your competitors' handles and track follower growth, posting cadence, and top-performing posts.

{
  "handles": ["competitor-1.bsky.social", "competitor-2.bsky.social"],
  "maxPosts": 100
}

📊 Output Example

{
  "handle": "jay.bsky.team",
  "displayName": "Jay Graber",
  "description": "CEO of Bluesky",
  "followersCount": 245893,
  "followsCount": 1247,
  "postsCount": 3421,
  "posts": [
    {
      "uri": "at://did:plc:abc.../app.bsky.feed.post/xyz",
      "text": "Excited to announce our latest feature...",
      "createdAt": "2025-03-15T14:30:00.000Z",
      "likeCount": 842,
      "repostCount": 156,
      "replyCount": 73
    }
  ]
}

⚙️ Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
handles	array	Bluesky handles without @ — jay.bsky.team, pfrazee.com. Custom domains supported.
searchQuery	string	Full-text keyword/phrase search across all public Bluesky posts.
maxPosts	int	Posts per profile (default 50, up to 500). Set 0 for profile metadata only.
maxSearchResults	int	1–500 (default 100) for search mode.
includeFollowers	bool	Pull the followers list for each handle.
includeFollowing	bool	Pull the "following" list for each handle.
maxFollowers	int	Cap follower/following fetch at 1–2000 per account (default 200).

📤 Output Fields

Field	Description
handle	User's Bluesky handle
did	Decentralized identifier (stable ID across handle changes)
displayName, description, avatar	Profile metadata
followersCount, followsCount, postsCount	Profile counters
posts[]	Array of recent posts with text, timestamps, likeCount, repostCount, replyCount
followers[] / following[]	Social graph (when enabled)

💰 Pricing & Performance

• Pay-per-event: $0.005 per item (profile, post, search result, or social-graph entry).
• Typical monthly cost: $1–$4 for weekly brand listening or competitor tracking at realistic volumes.
• Speed: ~200 posts/minute, ~500 social-graph entries/minute.
• No auth required — no OAuth token, no app password, no risk of rate-limit bans tied to your account.

🔌 Integrations

• Zapier / Make / n8n — schedule and push new search hits to Slack, Discord, or email.
• Notion / Airtable / Google Sheets — build a mentions database with auto-updates.
• LangChain / LlamaIndex / vector DBs — embed posts for semantic search over Bluesky conversations (RAG over open social).
• BI tools (Metabase, Superset, Hex) — track follower growth and post engagement over time.
• Apify webhooks — POST new matches straight to your own endpoint.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Bluesky account or app password? No. The Actor uses the AT Protocol's public endpoints — everything extractable is already publicly visible.

How deep can I go on followers/following? Up to 2,000 per account per run. For accounts with 10K+ followers, run multiple times with different starting cursors or sample strategically.

How fresh is the search data? Real-time — search hits the live Bluesky API each run. New posts become searchable within seconds of being published.

Does this work with custom-domain handles? Yes. Bluesky supports handles like pfrazee.com or jay.bsky.team — pass them the same as any other handle.

Can I fetch replies and thread context? This Actor returns each post's replyCount and thread URI. For deeper thread traversal, chain runs using the URIs as the next seed.

Can I filter by language or post type? Bluesky's public search doesn't expose language filters yet. Posts include language hints in the raw record.langs field when you keep the full record — filter client-side.

🔑 Keywords

Bluesky scraper, AT Protocol scraper, Bluesky posts data, Bluesky profile scraper, Bluesky search API, decentralized social media data, Bluesky followers extractor, open social scraping, Bluesky social listening, Bluesky analytics, AT Protocol data, Bluesky community mapping, influencer research Bluesky, post-Twitter data, fediverse scraping, Bluesky content archive.

📝 Changelog

• v1.0 — Initial release. 4 capabilities (profiles, search, followers, following), up to 500 posts per profile, up to 2000 social-graph entries.