Pricing

Pay per usage

Mastodon Scraper

Scrape posts, hashtags, public timelines, and profiles from any Mastodon instance via the official public ActivityPub API. No login needed. Clean, flat output for JSON, CSV, or Excel, with auto pagination and media/reply filters. Works on any fediverse server.

Pricing

Pay per usage

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Joao Paulo

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

5 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Social media

News

You can access the Mastodon Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "instance": "mastodon.social",
10    "hashtag": "technology",
11    "account": "Gargron",
12}
13
14# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
15run = client.actor("opendata-labs/mastodon-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
16
17# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
18print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
19for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
20    print(item)
21
22# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Mastodon Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Mastodon Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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Mastodon Scraper API in JavaScript

Mastodon Scraper API through CLI

Mastodon Scraper OpenAPI definition

Mastodon Scraper API

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