Bluesky Scraper API — Posts, Profiles, Threads & Follower Graph

A lightning-fast, keyless Bluesky (AT Protocol) scraper. Extract public posts by keyword or hashtag, crawl user feeds, download entire conversation threads, and scrape follower graphs.

No login or API keys required.

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⚡ Why Use This Bluesky Scraper?

• Pay-Per-Event Pricing: $1.00 per 1,000 posts and $2.00 per 1,000 profiles. Zero Account Bans & No Login: Uses the public AT Protocol directly without risking personal accounts.
• WAF & Rate-Limit Resilient: Built-in TLS fingerprinting bypass and residential proxy fallback to ensure 99.9% uptime.
• AI-Ready Structured Output: Clean JSON with engagement metrics (likes, reposts, quotes), hashtags, full URLs, and timestamped metadata. Posts carrying media or quoted embeds are flagged with the boolean hasEmbed field.

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🚀 Supported Modes

Mode	Description	Required Input
search	Search posts by keyword, query, or hashtag with chronological or engagement sort	query (e.g. "artificial intelligence", "#buildinpublic")
author_feed	Scrape recent posts published by any Bluesky handle or DID	handle (e.g. "bsky.app", "jay.bsky.team")
thread	Scrape a post and recursively resolve all nested replies	postUri (AT URI or bsky.app web URL)
profile	Retrieve profile metadata, bio, avatar, and follower/post counts	handle
followers	Scrape the follower list of any account	handle
follows	Scrape the following list of any account	handle

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💰 Pay-Per-Event Pricing

You only pay for successful items extracted to the dataset:

Event	Price (USD)	Description
Post Extracted	$0.001 ($1.00 / 1,000)	Each post returned with author, text, metrics, and hashtags.
Profile Extracted	$0.002 ($2.00 / 1,000)	Each profile or graph node returned.
Actor Start	$0.00005	Minimal one-time initialization fee.

Volume discounts apply automatically on Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond Apify subscription tiers.

How this compares

Keyless access to the public AT Protocol with no login, so no account of yours is at risk, and the TLS-fingerprint and proxy fallback paths are in the code. One actor covers keyword and hashtag search, author feeds, whole threads with nested replies, profiles, follower and following lists, with one row shape per item type. At $1.00 per 1,000 posts and $2.00 per 1,000 profiles it is below lexis-solutions/bluesky-posts-scraper ($1.10 per 1,000 posts), fatihtahta/All-In-One-Bluesky-Scraper ($1.49) and cryptosignals/bluesky-scraper ($3.00). automation-lab/bluesky-scraper matches the post price at $1.00 per 1,000 but lists $3.00 per 1,000 profiles and a $0.005 actor-start event (this actor charges $0.00005).

Actor	Price per 1,000 posts	Platform usage
subimpact/bluesky-scraper-api	$1.00 ($2.00 per 1,000 profiles)	paid by you
lexis-solutions/bluesky-posts-scraper	$1.10	see listing
automation-lab/bluesky-scraper	$1.00 ($3.00 per 1,000 profiles)	see listing
fatihtahta/All-In-One-Bluesky-Scraper	$1.49	see listing
cryptosignals/bluesky-scraper	$3.00	see listing

Prices are Apify Store list prices on the Free plan, checked 24 October 2026. Competitor prices can change; check their listings.

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💻 Code Integration Examples

Node.js / JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('subimpact/bluesky-scraper-api').call({
    mode: 'search',
    query: 'artificial intelligence',
    maxItems: 50,
    sort: 'latest'
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Fetched ${items.length} posts!`);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("subimpact/bluesky-scraper-api").call(run_input={
    "mode": "search",
    "query": "#ai",
    "maxItems": 50
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"@{item['authorHandle']}: {item['text']} (Likes: {item['likeCount']})")

cURL

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/subimpact~bluesky-scraper-api/runs?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode": "search", "query": "startup", "maxItems": 20}'