Bluesky Scraper - Posts, Profiles, Threads & Feeds (No Login)

Scrape public Bluesky data from one Actor: posts and replies from any account, full reply threads flattened with depth, custom feeds such as Discover, post search by keyword, and profiles with follower, following and post counts. It reads Bluesky's official public API (the AppView behind bsky.app), so you need no login, no app password and no cookies, and runs don't break when the website changes. No start fee: you pay only per post or profile you get. Other Bluesky scrapers charge $0.004-$0.005 per run start or split posts, profiles and comments into separate Actors. This one does all of it, plus an only-new-posts mode for scheduled monitoring.

What data can you get?

Item	Fields
Post (posts, replies, thread replies, feed and search results)	text, created/indexed time, languages, likes, reposts, replies, quotes, bookmarks, author handle/DID/name/avatar, reply parent and thread root, thread depth, repost info (who reposted it and when), pinned flag, images (full size, thumbnail, alt text), video (HLS playlist, thumbnail), link card (URL, title, description), quoted post, hashtags, mentioned handles, links, labels, bsky.app URL
Profile	DID, handle, display name, bio, avatar, banner, followers, following, posts, number of custom feeds/lists/starter packs, verification status, pinned post, account creation date, labels, bsky.app URL

Every item has type (post or profile), a stable id (post AT URI or DID), url, sourceInput (which input produced it) and scrapedAt. Missing values are null, never omitted.

Use cases

• Brand and competitor monitoring: schedule daily runs on your own and your competitors' accounts and get only new posts with engagement counts.
• Social listening: search posts for a product, topic or #hashtag and export them to Sheets or your data warehouse.
• Conversation analysis: pull every reply under a viral post, with depth and parent, for sentiment or community research.
• Influencer and media research: compare follower and post counts of news outlets, creators or companies.
• Trend tracking: snapshot the Discover feed or any topic feed (science, tech, sports) every hour.
• AI and NLP datasets: clean, structured post text with languages, hashtags and links.

How to use

1. Pick What to scrape (mode).
2. Fill the input list that mode uses: Handles, Post URLs, Feeds or Search queries.
3. Set Max items and run. Results land in the dataset; per-input status is in RUN_SUMMARY.

Latest posts from accounts (the prefill):

{ "mode": "posts", "handles": ["bsky.app"], "maxItems": 15 }

Only an account's own posts from the last 7 days, no replies or reposts:

{ "mode": "posts", "handles": ["nytimes.com", "theguardian.com"], "filter": "posts_no_replies", "includeReposts": false, "sinceDate": "7 days", "maxPostsPerAuthor": 50 }

Profiles with follower counts:

{ "mode": "profiles", "handles": ["nytimes.com", "@washingtonpost.com", "https://bsky.app/profile/npr.org"] }

All replies to a post:

{ "mode": "thread", "postUrls": ["https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3mzhhvhjfwk22"], "threadDepth": 6, "maxItems": 200 }

The Discover feed, or any custom feed:

{ "mode": "feed", "feeds": ["discover", "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/feed/whats-hot"], "maxItems": 100 }

Search posts (latest or top, optional language and date):

{ "mode": "search", "searchQueries": ["artificial intelligence"], "searchSort": "latest", "searchLanguage": "en", "maxItems": 100 }

Search accounts by keyword:

{ "mode": "searchProfiles", "searchQueries": ["astronomy"], "maxItems": 50 }

Monitoring: add "onlyNew": true and a "stateKey" per schedule. The Actor remembers which posts it already returned (in a named key-value store) and outputs and charges only new ones. In Posts mode it stops paging as soon as it reaches posts it has seen before.

Handles can be written as bsky.app, @name.bsky.social, a bare name (means name.bsky.social), a DID (did:plc:...) or a https://bsky.app/profile/... URL.

Output example

Real items from a local run (samples/sample-output.json), trimmed:

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "at://did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzhhvhjfwk22",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3mzhhvhjfwk22",
  "authorHandle": "bsky.app",
  "authorDisplayName": "Bluesky",
  "text": "We're seeing 200% of our usual data traffic—and climbing! Thanks to all of you for making this a night to remember",
  "langs": ["en"],
  "createdAt": "2026-11-04T04:03:40.249Z",
  "replyCount": 176,
  "repostCount": 787,
  "likeCount": 10187,
  "quoteCount": 194,
  "bookmarkCount": 105,
  "isReply": false,
  "replyParentUri": null,
  "depth": null,
  "isRepost": false,
  "embedType": "images",
  "images": [{
    "url": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/bafkreiczrhhklt4wsquxzgudjxd7w4rch4tcbb7fkedhg56h3bfvsla2v4",
    "thumbnail": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/bafkreiczrhhklt4wsquxzgudjxd7w4rch4tcbb7fkedhg56h3bfvsla2v4",
    "alt": "Steeply climbing chart with the number 25.8 Gb/s superimposed."
  }],
  "externalLink": null,
  "quotedPostUri": null,
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "links": [],
  "sourceInput": "bsky.app",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-04T12:30:22.488Z"
}

{
  "type": "profile",
  "id": "did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur",
  "handle": "bsky.app",
  "displayName": "Bluesky",
  "followersCount": 35521500,
  "followsCount": 36,
  "postsCount": 916,
  "feedsCount": 7,
  "verifiedStatus": "none",
  "createdAt": "2023-04-12T04:53:57.057Z",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app"
}

The dataset has three views: Posts, Post media and links and Profiles.

Pricing

Pay per event, no start fee, no subscription:

Event	Price	When
post	$0.0015	each post, reply, thread reply, feed or search result in the output
profile	$0.002	each profile in the output

Examples: 1,000 posts ≈ $1.50, 100 profiles ≈ $0.20, the prefill (15 posts) ≈ $0.02. Platform compute is included. Invalid inputs, not-found accounts, skipped duplicates and posts filtered out by date or only-new mode are never charged. Set Maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly at that budget.

Tips and limits

• Max items counts everything in the run; Max items per input stops one big account, feed or thread from using it all up.
• Author feeds go back through an account's whole history; use sinceDate or limits for big accounts.
• Search runs on Bluesky's search endpoint (api.bsky.app). Bluesky currently allows it without login, but it blocks some IP ranges with HTTP 403. If that happens the run says so for that query (other inputs still finish); enabling Apify Proxy may help. Results come from Bluesky's search index (it reports at most 10,000 hits per query); for big topics use narrower queries or sinceDate.
• Feeds: public feed generators work without login. Feeds that personalise per user (e.g. "Following") return their logged-out version or nothing.
• Threads: replies are output level by level (all direct replies first), so a limit keeps the most relevant part. Deleted or blocked replies are skipped and counted in RUN_SUMMARY. Very large threads may be cut off by Bluesky at the chosen depth.
• Accounts that hide their content from logged-out visitors, and deleted posts, are reported as not-found.
• Follower/following lists are intentionally not supported (they would harvest data about private individuals). DMs are not accessible.
• Counts are live at scrape time; they change.
• Requests are paced to at most 5 per second (Bluesky allows about 3,000 per 5 minutes per IP) and 429s are retried with the server's Retry-After.

FAQ

Do I need a Bluesky account or app password? No. Everything comes from Bluesky's public, unauthenticated API.

Is it legal to scrape Bluesky? The Actor only reads data that Bluesky publishes openly to logged-out visitors through its official public API. It does not log in, bypass access controls or collect follower lists, emails or phone numbers. You are responsible for how you use the data, including compliance with GDPR and other privacy laws and Bluesky's terms. Don't use it to profile private individuals.

Why is a post with my keyword missing from search? Bluesky's search index decides what it returns. Try "searchSort": "top", a different phrasing, or search operators like from:handle or #hashtag.

Do I need a proxy? Normally no. If you get HTTP 403/429, enable Apify Proxy (automatic or datacenter). Residential proxies are not supported: if the input selects the RESIDENTIAL group, the Actor logs a warning and uses Apify datacenter proxy instead.

How does only-new mode work with several schedules? Each stateKey has its own memory. Use one key per schedule. The memory forgets posts not seen for 90 days.

What does depth mean? In Thread mode, 0 is the post you asked for, 1 a direct reply, 2 a reply to a reply, and so on. Use replyParentUri to rebuild the tree.

Integrations

• API: run it and get the items in one call:

  curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/rjmacarthy~bluesky-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"mode":"posts","handles":["bsky.app"],"maxItems":15}'
  

• Schedules and webhooks: run hourly or daily with onlyNew and push new posts to your pipeline when the run finishes.

• Make, Zapier, n8n: send new posts or profile stats to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack or a database without code.

• AI agents (MCP): use the Actor as a tool through the Apify MCP server.

• Python and JavaScript clients (apify-client) for programmatic runs.

Changelog

• 0.1 (Nov 2026): first release. Posts (filters, reposts, pinned), profiles, threads with depth, custom feeds incl. Discover, post search, account search, only-new monitoring and date filter.

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Support

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