# Threads Posts Scraper (`piotrv1001/threads-posts-scraper`) Actor

The Threads Posts Scraper extracts posts, replies, profiles and keyword search results from Threads — text, likes, reply/repost/quote counts, media, link previews, authors and timestamps —no login needed. Ideal for brand monitoring, sentiment and creator research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/piotrv1001/threads-posts-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [FalconScrape](https://apify.com/piotrv1001) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.50 / 1,000 posts

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

### 🚀 Meta Threads Scraper — Profile Posts, Replies & Keyword Search (No Login)

Extract Threads data without an account. The **Meta Threads Scraper** turns any public profile, keyword search or post into clean JSON, CSV or Excel — post text, likes, reply/repost/quote counts, views, images and videos, link previews, quoted posts, authors and timestamps.

### ✨ Features

- 👤 **Profile posts**: every post of a public profile, newest first, all the way back to the account's first post — plus the profile itself (bio, links, follower count, verification).
- 💬 **Replies**: a profile's replies to other people, each with the post it answers.
- 🔍 **Keyword search**: the top posts Threads shows for any keyword, combining the default and the recent result sets.
- 🧵 **Post threads**: any post with its view count and its top replies.
- 🖼️ **Media**: direct image and video URLs, carousels included.
- 🔗 **Context**: link previews, quoted and reposted posts, pinned and edited flags, paid-partnership labels.
- 📅 **Incremental runs**: a `postedAfter` date so scheduled runs only fetch what is new.
- ⚡ **No browser, no login**: hundreds of posts per minute; runs finish in seconds, not minutes.

### 🛠️ How It Works

1. **Add usernames** – handles (`zuck`, `@nba`) or profile URLs. Tick **Include replies** to also collect what the account replies to others.
2. **Optionally add search queries or post URLs** – keywords to search, or `https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/…` links for a post and its replies.
3. **Set limits** – `maxPosts` per profile / query / post URL and, for scheduled runs, `postedAfter`.
4. **Run the scraper** – results land in the dataset, ready to download or fetch via API, webhook or scheduled run.

### 💵 Pricing

Pay only for what you extract — no fee per run:

| Event   | Price              |
| ------- | ------------------ |
| Post    | $0.0035 per post   |
| Profile | $0.005 per profile |

Replies, search results and post-thread replies are all posts. 1,000 posts cost $3.50; monitoring 20 profiles at 50 posts each costs about $3.60 per run. There is no start fee, so small scheduled runs stay cheap.

### 📊 Sample Output Data

Post:

```json
{
    "type": "post",
    "id": "3968846412599444855",
    "code": "DcULMjPEsV3",
    "url": "https://www.threads.com/@mosseri/post/DcULMjPEsV3",
    "text": "#photodump from this summer now that we're back in California and the boys are back in school",
    "createdAt": "2026-08-21T20:16:22.000Z",
    "author": {
        "id": "63482099442",
        "username": "mosseri",
        "fullName": "Adam Mosseri",
        "isVerified": true,
        "profilePic": "https://scontent-sea5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-19/652081753_….jpg"
    },
    "likes": 337,
    "replies": 46,
    "reposts": 52,
    "quotes": 1,
    "reshares": 12,
    "views": null,
    "isReply": false,
    "replyTo": null,
    "images": ["https://scontent-sea5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/780551048_….jpg", "…"],
    "videos": ["https://scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t16/f2/m84/AQPpNIQVzGWmMI3Vek….mp4"],
    "linkPreview": null,
    "quotedPost": null,
    "repostedPost": null,
    "isEdited": false,
    "isPaidPartnership": false,
    "isPinned": false,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-27T12:38:48.187Z",
    "source": "https://www.threads.com/@mosseri"
}
```

Reply (from a profile's Replies tab or a post thread) — `replyTo` carries the post being answered:

```json
{
    "type": "post",
    "id": "3657413245254485711",
    "code": "DLBvfgAM8bP",
    "url": "https://www.threads.com/@_elan_/post/DLBvfgAM8bP",
    "text": "Spoiler alert: this was actually awesome",
    "createdAt": "2025-06-18T03:34:16.000Z",
    "author": { "id": "63451933679", "username": "_elan_", "fullName": "ELÁN", "isVerified": true, "profilePic": "…" },
    "likes": 346,
    "replies": 0,
    "reposts": 2,
    "quotes": 0,
    "reshares": 3,
    "isReply": true,
    "replyTo": {
        "code": "DK-BydcJHkF",
        "url": "https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DK-BydcJHkF",
        "username": "zuck",
        "text": "Spoiler alert: We're testing a way for you to hide spoilers in your Threads posts."
    },
    "images": [],
    "videos": [],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-27T12:38:49.447Z",
    "source": "https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DK-BydcJHkF"
}
```

Profile:

```json
{
    "type": "profile",
    "id": "63482099442",
    "username": "mosseri",
    "url": "https://www.threads.com/@mosseri",
    "fullName": "Adam Mosseri",
    "bio": "Father of three boys, married to an amazing woman, head of Instagram and supporter of Threads.",
    "bioLinks": ["http://mosseri.net/"],
    "followers": 1040419,
    "isVerified": true,
    "isPrivate": false,
    "profilePic": "https://scontent-sea5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-19/652081753_….jpg",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-27T12:38:47.973Z",
    "source": "https://www.threads.com/@mosseri"
}
```

Every item carries `source` — the profile, query or post URL it came from — so multi-target runs stay easy to split. A post opened via **Post URLs** also has `views`.

### ℹ️ Good to know

- Profile posts and replies have **no depth limit** — set `maxPosts` high to get an account's full history.
- Threads shows only its **top ~20–30 posts per keyword** and the **top ~20 replies per post** to visitors without an account; the scraper returns exactly what a visitor sees. Use several keywords or a `postedAfter` schedule to cover more.
- Private profiles return the profile item only. Media URLs are served by Threads' CDN and expire after a few days — download what you need.

Turn Threads into structured data with the **Meta Threads Scraper** today! 🚀

# Actor input Schema

## `usernames` (type: `array`):

Threads profiles to scrape, one per line — a handle (zuck, @nba) or a profile URL (https://www.threads.com/@zuck). Returns the profile plus its posts, newest first.

## `includeReplies` (type: `boolean`):

Also collect each profile's replies to other people's posts (the Replies tab), up to Max posts per profile.

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search on Threads, one per line. Threads shows only the top ~30 posts per keyword without an account.

## `postUrls` (type: `array`):

Threads post URLs (https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/Db2wI-DilLt), one per line. Returns the post with its view count and its top replies.

## `maxPosts` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of posts to collect per profile, search query or post URL.

## `postedAfter` (type: `string`):

Skip posts older than this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Handy for scheduled runs that only need what is new since the last one.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

The default works; residential proxies are not needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "usernames": [
    "zuck"
  ],
  "includeReplies": false,
  "searchQueries": [],
  "postUrls": [],
  "maxPosts": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "usernames": [
        "zuck"
    ],
    "searchQueries": [],
    "postUrls": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("piotrv1001/threads-posts-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "usernames": ["zuck"],
    "searchQueries": [],
    "postUrls": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("piotrv1001/threads-posts-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "usernames": [
    "zuck"
  ],
  "searchQueries": [],
  "postUrls": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call piotrv1001/threads-posts-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,piotrv1001/threads-posts-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/D3QwLAVQuAZxTXht6/builds/9Fuubrg9jn38Doaen/openapi.json