Threads Scraper

Scrape posts, profiles, replies and search results from Meta's Threads, without an account or a browser:

• Profiles: by username, @handle or URL. You get the profile's details and its posts, newest first, as far back as the profile goes, and its replies to other posts if you want them.
• Posts: any post by its URL (threads.com or threads.net) or code, with as many of its replies as you need, top or most recent first.
• Search: the top posts Threads shows for a keyword.

Every post comes with its text, date, likes, replies, reposts, quotes and shares, its images and videos (every item of a carousel, with video URLs and thumbnails), link preview, links, mentions, topic tag and hashtags, the post it quotes, whether it's a reply and to which post, and its author's username, name, ID, verified badge and profile picture. Every profile comes with its exact followers, name, bio, bio links, verified and private flags, topic tags and HD profile picture.

It is fast: 1,624 items from five profiles (200 posts and 50 replies each), two posts with 150 replies each and three searches took 79 seconds. It costs $1 per 1,000 posts or replies and $1 per 1,000 profiles.

What people use it for

• Influencer and brand research: every post of a creator or a brand with its likes, replies, reposts and dates, and its exact follower count.
• Audience and sentiment analysis: the replies under a post, with who wrote them and how many likes they got.
• Monitoring: new posts of a list of profiles since a date, day by day.
• Trend research: what gets posted and liked about a keyword.
• Datasets for AI: posts and replies at scale, with their media.

How to scrape Threads

1. Click Try for free; Apify's free plan covers a first run.
2. Enter Profiles, Posts or Search terms, and how many posts you want.
3. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

An input with more options:

{
  "profiles": ["zuck", "https://www.threads.com/@mosseri"],
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 100,
  "maxRepliesPerProfile": 20,
  "posts": ["https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/Ddt7cL5EfUG"],
  "maxRepliesPerPost": 100,
  "repliesSort": "top",
  "searchTerms": ["sourdough bread"],
  "maxPostsPerSearch": 30,
  "postedAfter": "2026-09-01"
}

A Threads URL works in any of the lists: a post URL pasted under profiles is scraped as a post. Set maxPostsPerProfile to 0 for the profiles' details only, or turn off includeProfileDetails for their posts only. postedAfter applies to profiles' posts and replies, replies to posts and search results; posts you give by URL are scraped whatever their date.

Output

A post (two of its six carousel items shown):

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "3994109866205639942",
  "code": "Ddt7cL5EfUG",
  "url": "https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/Ddt7cL5EfUG",
  "text": "Agrippa said it's time to get back to work 😎",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-25T16:50:21Z",
  "likes": 4784,
  "replies": 412,
  "reposts": 242,
  "quotes": 40,
  "shares": 131,
  "mediaType": "carousel",
  "media": [
    {
      "type": "image",
      "url": "https://scontent-cph2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/823965183_17989304049103224_2823186847710225415_n.webp?...",
      "width": 2160,
      "height": 2700,
      "altText": null
    },
    {
      "type": "video",
      "url": "https://scontent-cph2-1.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t16/f2/m84/AQP4tSDWZ_OEIoMfzn4s301-vcfiNtRApjffRh5SzYaduNAtQxKpQ6_4eg8xiS8EG4KR4TsjWUP5tpvvabT5n6JyGmv_gdfkdjSBZPM.mp4?...",
      "thumbnailUrl": "https://scontent-cph2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.71878-15/821267767_2421957878213550_837854343537213600_n.jpg?...",
      "width": 1080,
      "height": 1350
    }
  ],
  "gifUrl": null,
  "linkUrl": null,
  "linkTitle": null,
  "linkDomain": null,
  "linkImage": null,
  "links": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "tag": null,
  "hashtags": [],
  "quotedPost": null,
  "isReply": false,
  "replyToUsername": null,
  "parentPostUrl": null,
  "isPinned": false,
  "isPaidPartnership": false,
  "authorUsername": "zuck",
  "authorName": "Mark Zuckerberg",
  "authorId": "63055343223",
  "authorVerified": true,
  "authorProfilePic": "https://scontent-cph2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-19/825322135_17989325280103224_1252773933700107438_n.jpg?...",
  "input": "https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/Ddt7cL5EfUG"
}

A profile:

{
  "type": "profile",
  "id": "63482099442",
  "username": "mosseri",
  "url": "https://www.threads.com/@mosseri",
  "name": "Adam Mosseri",
  "bio": "Father of three boys, married to an amazing woman, head of Instagram and supporter of Threads.",
  "bioLinks": ["http://mosseri.net/"],
  "followers": 1044759,
  "verified": true,
  "private": false,
  "profilePicUrl": "https://scontent-cph2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-19/652081753_17949596661115443_3143547630500927369_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s640x640_tt6&...",
  "tags": ["Arsenal Threads"],
  "input": "mosseri"
}

A reply is a post with "isReply": true, the username it answers in replyToUsername and the URL of the post it answers in parentPostUrl. The later posts of a thread its author wrote as a chain are replies to the post before them. A quote has the quoted post's ID, code, URL, text, date, likes, author and media in quotedPost. hashtags holds the post's topic tag and the #words of its text, lowercased.

Use it as an API

One call runs it and returns the results as JSON (for runs under 5 minutes; longer ones start a run and read its dataset). Apify's Python and JavaScript clients, and its Make, Zapier and n8n integrations, work the same way.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/pikoulas~threads/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"profiles": ["zuck"], "maxPostsPerProfile": 5, "posts": ["https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/Ddt7cL5EfUG"], "maxRepliesPerPost": 5, "searchTerms": ["sourdough bread"], "maxPostsPerSearch": 5}'

AI agents can call it as a tool through Apify's MCP server: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=pikoulas/threads.

How much does it cost to scrape Threads?

You pay $0.001 per post or reply, which is $1 per 1,000, and $0.001 per profile. Runs that go through Apify's residential proxy also pay its traffic, $0.0012 per 100 KB: a post from a profile is about 2 to 12 KB (carousels and quotes fetch the post itself for their full media), a reply to a post about 4 KB, a search result about 15 KB, a profile about 150 to 350 KB (its whole page). There are no monthly fees.

Good to know

• Logged out, Threads shows only its top posts for a search, a few dozen of them (23 to 74 in our runs), and no recent ones. A profile's posts and a post's replies have no such limit.
• shares is given for a profile's posts and replies and for posts by URL; Threads leaves it out (null) for search results and the replies under a post.
• Image and video URLs are signed and expire after a few days.
• A post found under several profiles, posts or searches is given once per run.
• Private profiles give their details but not their posts. Deleted and private posts, and profiles Threads only shows to logged-in users, can't be scraped, and the log names them.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Threads?

It collects only what Threads shows publicly, without logging in. Scraping public data is generally legal, but personal data is protected by laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA, and Meta's terms may limit how you use what you collect. If you're unsure, ask a lawyer; Apify's Is web scraping legal? is a good start.

Something missing or not working?

Open an issue on the Issues tab with the input you used, or ask there for a field you need.