Bluesky Scraper — Followers, Follows, Posts

Scrape any public Bluesky profile — followers, follows, posts, or profile metadata. Powered by the open atproto public API, so there's no login, no API key, no setup.

What you get

Four modes in one actor — one record per row, ready to export.

Followers / Follows mode — one row per user:

• did, handle, displayName, description
• avatar URL, createdAt, profileUrl
• relation flag (follower or follow)
• scrapedFromHandle — the account you queried

Posts mode — one row per post from the user's author feed:

• postUri, postUrl, cid
• text, createdAt, indexedAt, langs
• Engagement: likeCount, repostCount, replyCount, quoteCount
• isReply / replyToUri, isRepost / repostedByHandle
• embedType (image, video, external link, quoted post)
• Author fields: authorDid, authorHandle, authorDisplayName, authorAvatar

Profile mode — single row with full profile metadata:

• displayName, description, avatar, banner
• followersCount, followsCount, postsCount
• createdAt, indexedAt, profileUrl

Pagination

• NEXT_PAGE_ID cursor saved to the Key-value store so large lists can be chained across runs

Use cases

• Audience research — pull the full follower list of any creator, brand, or competitor
• Lead generation — find people in a niche by following the followers of a topical account
• Content analysis — track a Bluesky account's posts, engagement, and posting cadence
• Competitor monitoring — keep tabs on what an account publishes and how it performs
• Network mapping — combine follows and followers to reconstruct community graphs
• LLM / RAG ingestion — feed clean post text and author metadata into your AI pipeline

How to use

1. Enter the Handle or DID — accepts bsky.app, jay.bsky.team, a profile URL like https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app, or a DID. A bare username like alice is auto-completed to alice.bsky.social.
2. Choose a Mode — Followers / Follows / Posts / Profile only
3. Set Max Items — default 500 per run, or 0 for unlimited (stops just before the actor timeout)
4. Run the actor — results appear in the Dataset tab
5. To fetch the next page, copy NEXT_PAGE_ID from the Key-value store tab and paste it into Page ID on the next run

Output format

Followers / Follows row:

{
  "kind": "user",
  "relation": "follower",
  "scrapedFromHandle": "bsky.app",
  "did": "did:plc:abc123",
  "handle": "alice.bsky.social",
  "displayName": "Alice",
  "description": "art & code",
  "avatar": "https://cdn.bsky.app/...",
  "createdAt": "2024-05-01T12:34:56Z",
  "profileUrl": "https://bsky.app/profile/alice.bsky.social"
}

Post row:

{
  "kind": "post",
  "scrapedFromHandle": "bsky.app",
  "postUri": "at://did:plc:.../app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvllqtnmk2g",
  "postUrl": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3mlvllqtnmk2g",
  "cid": "bafyreidkk...",
  "text": "Welcome to Bluesky!",
  "createdAt": "2026-05-15T14:54:22Z",
  "indexedAt": "2026-05-15T14:54:23Z",
  "langs": ["en"],
  "isReply": false,
  "replyToUri": null,
  "isRepost": false,
  "repostedByDid": null,
  "repostedByHandle": null,
  "embedType": "app.bsky.embed.record",
  "replyCount": 12,
  "repostCount": 5,
  "likeCount": 220,
  "quoteCount": 3,
  "authorDid": "did:plc:...",
  "authorHandle": "bsky.app",
  "authorDisplayName": "Bluesky",
  "authorAvatar": "https://cdn.bsky.app/..."
}

Pagination

For large accounts (millions of followers), use the pagination cursor to fetch more across multiple runs:

1. Run the actor — when it finishes, NEXT_PAGE_ID is saved in the Key-value store tab
2. Copy the NEXT_PAGE_ID value
3. Start a new run with the same handle and mode and paste it into the Page ID field
4. Repeat until NEXT_PAGE_ID is null (list fully exhausted)