Bluesky Scraper – Posts, Profiles, Search, Followers, Threads, Trending

Scrape Bluesky through its official public API – no login, no API key, no proxy. One run can:

• Search posts by keyword or #hashtag, newest or top, with date range and language filters
• Scrape profiles: bio, follower / following / post counts, the latest posts, and a free summary row (posts per week, average likes / reposts / replies, engagement rate, reply & media share, top 3 posts)
• Followers and following of any profile
• Post threads: a post plus all its replies (nested, with depth), and who liked or reposted it
• Trending topics on Bluesky right now

Typical run: 2 searches + 2 profiles + 1 thread + trending = about 3 seconds. Empty results and failures are never charged.

Input

Field	Description
searchQueries	Keywords or hashtags, one per line (chatgpt, #ai).
sort / since / until / lang	Search options: latest or top, date range YYYY-MM-DD, language code (en, ko, ja…).
maxPostsPerQuery	Posts per search (default 50).
profiles	Handles or profile URLs: bsky.app, @user.bsky.social, https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com.
maxPostsPerProfile	Latest posts per profile (default 50, 0 = summary only). includeReplies, includeReposts to widen.
maxFollowers / maxFollowing	Accounts to list per profile (default 0 = off).
postUrls	https://bsky.app/profile/<handle>/post/<id> links. Returns the post and its replies.
maxRepliesPerPost	Replies per post URL (default 100). maxLikersPerPost, maxRepostersPerPost list who liked / reposted (default 0 = off).
includeTrending	Save the current trending topics.
includeProfileSummary	Summary row per profile (default on).

{
  "searchQueries": ["chatgpt", "#ai"],
  "profiles": ["bsky.app", "https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com"],
  "postUrls": ["https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l"],
  "includeTrending": true,
  "maxPostsPerQuery": 100,
  "since": "2026-10-01",
  "lang": "en"
}

Output

Every row has a type: post, reply, profile, follower, following, liker, reposter or trending. Each type has its own tab in the Output view and its own export (?view=posts, ?view=profiles, …).

Post

{
  "type": "post",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lzqk5v2vqk2a",
  "authorHandle": "bsky.app",
  "authorName": "Bluesky",
  "text": "Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers…",
  "createdAt": "2026-08-27T19:03:40.000Z",
  "likes": 9641, "reposts": 3365, "replies": 344, "quotes": 1617,
  "isReply": false, "isRepost": false,
  "images": ["https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/…"], "imageCount": 1,
  "externalUrl": null, "quotedAuthor": null,
  "hashtags": [], "mentions": [], "links": [], "langs": ["en"],
  "query": null, "profile": "bsky.app"
}

Profile summary (calculated from the posts fetched in the same run)

{
  "type": "profile",
  "handle": "bsky.app", "displayName": "Bluesky",
  "followers": 35221525, "following": 17, "posts": 867,
  "postsSampled": 20, "postsPerWeek": 1.3,
  "avgLikes": 5357, "avgReposts": 1040, "avgReplies": 244,
  "engagementRate": 0.0204, "replyShare": 0, "mediaShare": 45,
  "latestPostDate": "2026-10-09T15:53:59.000Z",
  "topPosts": [{ "text": "Bluesky launched in February 2023…", "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/…", "likes": 29872 }]
}

Reply rows add rootUri, parentUri and depth; follower / liker rows carry the account's handle, display name, bio and which profile or post they belong to; trending rows have rank, topic, description and a feed url.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Charged for
post	one post row (search result, profile post or the post behind a post URL)
reply	one reply in a thread
account	one follower / following / liker / reposter row
profile	one profile summary row
trending	the trending-topics list (once per run)

Searches with no results, unknown handles, missing posts and errors are not charged. Platform usage is included.

Notes

• Uses only Bluesky's public AppView API (AT Protocol). Only public data; accounts that hide themselves from logged-out viewers are skipped by the API.
• Hashtag searches use Bluesky's tag filter, so #ai matches posts tagged ai, not just the text.
• Engagement rate = average (likes + reposts + replies + quotes) per post ÷ followers × 100.
• Large accounts: Bluesky caps reply threads and like lists at what its API returns; counts on the post itself are always exact.