🚀 BlueSky Author Feed Scraper

A powerful and scalable Apify Actor to extract structured posts and engagement analytics from Bluesky (AT Protocol) author feeds.

Perfect for social media analytics, decentralized web research, AI dataset creation, and content intelligence pipelines.

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🔥 Why This Actor?

Bluesky is one of the fastest-growing decentralized social networks — but its data is hard to access at scale.

This Actor solves that by giving you:

• ⚡ Clean structured JSON output
• 📊 Full engagement metrics (likes, reposts, replies, quotes)
• 👤 Rich author profile extraction
• 🔗 Embedded content parsing (YouTube, links, media)
• 🧠 AI-ready dataset formatting
• 🚀 Fully automated Apify cloud execution

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✨ Key Features

• 📡 Scrape Bluesky author feeds by handle
• 👤 Extract full author metadata (DID, handle, avatar, verification)
• 📝 Collect post content + timestamps + language detection
• 📈 Engagement analytics (likes, reposts, replies, bookmarks, quotes)
• 🔗 Extract external embeds (YouTube, websites, thumbnails)
• 🧾 Structured JSON output ready for pipelines
• ⚙️ Configurable limits for scalable crawling

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⚙️ Input Parameters

{
  "profileHandles": ["rust-lang.org"],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxResults": 30
}

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📤 Output Example

Each item represents a single Bluesky post with full metadata:

{
  "uri": "at://did:plc:.../app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp6oez5ic22",
  "cid": "bafyreib6c...",
  "author": {
    "did": "did:plc:wicua5idywllkobpfm64byvm",
    "handle": "rust-lang.org",
    "displayName": "Rust Language",
    "avatar": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/...",
    "associated": {
      "activitySubscription": {
        "allowSubscriptions": "followers"
      }
    },
    "labels": [],
    "createdAt": "2023-06-28T20:17:39.829Z",
    "verification": {
      "verifications": [
        {
          "issuer": "did:plc:z72i7hd...",
          "isValid": true,
          "createdAt": "2026-03-12T21:37:09.563Z"
        }
      ],
      "verifiedStatus": "valid"
    }
  },
  "record": {
    "$type": "app.bsky.feed.post",
    "createdAt": "2026-04-17T14:56:50.924Z",
    "text": "Curious what's new in Rust 1.95.0?",
    "langs": ["en"],
    "embed": {
      "external": {
        "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZlmaIgkUQ8",
        "title": "Rust Release Changelog - 1.95.0",
        "description": "YouTube video by Rust Programming Language",
        "thumb": {
          "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
          "size": 325287
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "embed": {
    "external": {
      "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZlmaIgkUQ8",
      "title": "Rust Release Changelog - 1.95.0",
      "description": "YouTube video by Rust Programming Language",
      "thumb": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/..."
    }
  },
  "bookmarkCount": 4,
  "replyCount": 0,
  "repostCount": 5,
  "likeCount": 43,
  "quoteCount": 1,
  "indexedAt": "2026-04-17T14:56:53.849Z",
  "labels": []
}

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📊 Data Fields Extracted

• uri
• cid
• author.did
• author.handle
• author.displayName
• author.avatar
• author.associated
• author.labels
• author.createdAt
• author.verification
• record.$type
• record.createdAt
• record.text
• record.langs
• record.embed
• embed.external.uri
• embed.external.title
• embed.external.description
• embed.external.thumb
• bookmarkCount
• replyCount
• repostCount
• likeCount
• quoteCount
• indexedAt
• labels

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🧠 Use Cases

• 📊 Social Media Intelligence - Track engagement trends across Bluesky accounts in real time.
• 🧪 AI & LLM Training Data - Generate structured datasets for training or fine-tuning models.
• 🔎 Research & Analytics - Study decentralized social behavior and content virality.
• 📣 Brand Monitoring - Monitor mentions, posts, and engagement of specific communities.
• 🤖 Automation Pipelines - Feed structured Bluesky data into dashboards, APIs, or ETL systems.

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⚡ Performance & Architecture

• Async crawling for high efficiency
• Optimized for Apify cloud scaling
• Configurable limits for cost control
• Lightweight and production-ready

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📌 Output Highlights

• 🧾 Full post text extraction
• 📈 Engagement metrics tracking
• 👤 Verified author metadata support
• 🔗 External content embedding (YouTube, links)
• ⚡ Real-time structured dataset output

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🧑‍💻 Built For

• Data engineers
• AI developers
• Growth hackers
• Social media analysts
• Researchers

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👨‍💻 Developed by Sandalia Apps

We're a team of automation engineers passionate about building smart, scalable scrapers for content platforms.
💼 For custom solutions or support, feel free to contact us.