Bluesky Scraper: Posts, Search & Profiles, No Account Needed

Scrape Bluesky posts and profiles with no account, password or API key, through Bluesky's official public API. Brand teams, researchers and app builders get search results, any account's posts, replies and feeds, with likes and media.

• 🔓 No account, password or API key: Bluesky's own public API, as its docs describe.
• 🔎 Four sources in one run: post search, accounts, a post's replies, and custom feeds.
• 👤 Full account history: the profile and every post back to the first, reposts optional.
• 📊 Every post's numbers: likes, reposts, replies, quotes and bookmarks, plus images, videos and links.
• 🔔 Only new posts: scheduled runs with a monitor ID skip posts already delivered.
• 💸 $0.50 per 1,000 posts or profiles. Missing accounts, filtered posts and repeats are free.

Try it: the input comes pre-filled with an example. Click Start to see the latest posts mentioning "apify", plus Bluesky's own account and its posts, then add your own.

What you get

Four ways to read Bluesky (mix them in one run):

Source	What you get
Search posts	Bluesky's own post search, newest or top, optionally in one language and between two dates; up to 100 posts per search
Accounts	a profile row, then the account's posts, newest first: posts only, posts and replies, posts with media, or posts and the account's own threads
Posts	a post and its replies, down to the depth you choose
Custom feeds	the posts a feed shows, such as Discover, in the feed's order

For every post:

• link, author (handle, name, avatar, DID) and text;
• when it was written and when Bluesky indexed it, in UTC;
• likes, reposts, replies, quotes and bookmarks;
• the full URLs of links, @mentions and #hashtags in the text;
• images and videos (with alt text and size), a link card, or the quoted post;
• the post it replies to, the thread's first post, and moderation labels;
• the search, account, post or feed it came from.

For every account: name, bio, avatar, banner, followers, following, posts count, when the account was created, whether it's verified, and its pinned post.

Who it's for

• Brand and social listening teams: follow mentions of a brand, product or topic, and get new posts on a schedule.
• Marketers and agencies: compare accounts by followers and engagement, and see which posts get the most likes and reposts.
• Researchers and journalists: collect an account's history, a debate's replies, or a feed's posts for analysis.
• Community managers: track replies to announcements and what a custom feed is surfacing.
• App builders: feed posts into dashboards, alerts or spreadsheets through the Apify API.

How much does it cost?

You pay $0.50 per 1,000 posts or profiles delivered ($0.0005 each), plus Apify's standard run start fee.

Example	Delivered	Cost
The pre-filled example: search "apify" and the bsky.app account (a test run)	40 posts, 1 profile	about $0.02
5 accounts, up to 500 posts each (a test run, 49 seconds)	2,336 posts, 5 profiles	about $1.17
Any 1,000 posts	1,000	$0.50

Free:

• accounts and posts that don't exist;
• posts outside your dates, reposts you didn't ask for, and other filtered posts;
• repeats within a run, such as a post found by two searches;
• with a monitor ID, posts delivered before.

Set a maximum cost per run in the run options. The run stops cleanly at that amount.

How to use it

1. Add what to read under What to read, one item per line:
   • Search posts: words to search for, such as climate summit or #buildinpublic;
   • Accounts: a handle (nytimes.com, name.bsky.social), @handle, a DID, or a profile link;
   • Posts (with their replies): links like https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3mz4cvpstb22v;
   • Custom feeds: links like https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/feed/whats-hot.
2. Set limits and filters under Limits and filters:
   • most posts per search, account, post or feed (default 100);
   • a date range;
   • search order (Latest or Top) and language;
   • which posts from accounts, reposts, profiles and reply depth.
3. For new posts only, enter a Monitor ID under Monitoring, such as brand-watch, and schedule the Actor, for example hourly. Keep Output only new posts on.
4. Click Start. The log and status line give the posts and profiles delivered; the pre-filled example took 3 seconds in a test.
5. View and download the results. The Posts view shows date, account, text, likes, reposts, replies, media and link; the Profiles view shows each account. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or another format.

The RUN_SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store lists every search, account, post and feed with its status.

Example input

The last 500 posts from three news accounts, with their profiles:

{
  "handles": ["nytimes.com", "theverge.com", "@jay.bsky.team"],
  "maxPostsPerSource": 500
}

An hourly brand watch in English (schedule it with this input):

{
  "searchQueries": ["apify", "web scraping"],
  "searchSort": "latest",
  "searchLanguage": "en",
  "monitorId": "brand-watch",
  "onlyNew": true
}

A post's replies two levels deep, and the Discover feed:

{
  "postUrls": ["https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3mz4cvpstb22v"],
  "feedUrls": ["https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/feed/whats-hot"],
  "replyDepth": 2,
  "maxPostsPerSource": 300
}

Example output

One row per post or profile. A real post from the bsky.app account, shortened:

{
  "type": "post",
  "uri": "at://did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz4cvpstb22v",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3mz4cvpstb22v",
  "authorHandle": "bsky.app",
  "authorDid": "did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur",
  "authorName": "Bluesky",
  "text": "To try the moderation inbox, enable beta features under Settings…",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-30T17:34:58.470Z",
  "indexedAt": "2026-10-30T17:35:05.618Z",
  "langs": ["en"],
  "likeCount": 279,
  "repostCount": 24,
  "replyCount": 9,
  "quoteCount": 4,
  "bookmarkCount": 20,
  "links": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "hashtags": [],
  "media": [],
  "linkCard": {
    "url": "https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-30-2026-moderation-inbox",
    "title": "Introducing the moderation inbox - Bluesky",
    "description": "Starting today, the moderation inbox is available in beta…",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/…"
  },
  "quotedPost": null,
  "replyTo": null,
  "repostedBy": null,
  "labels": [],
  "sourceType": "account",
  "source": "bsky.app",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-31T04:54:50.000Z"
}

A profile row has type: "profile", the account's handle, name and avatar, plus description, bannerUrl, followersCount, followsCount, postsCount, accountCreatedAt, verified, trustedVerifier and pinnedPostUri.

About the fields

• media: one entry per image or video: { type, url, thumbnailUrl, alt, width, height }. Video url is a streaming playlist.
• quotedPost: { uri, url, authorHandle, authorName, text, createdAt, available }. available is false when the quoted post was deleted or blocked.
• replyTo: { uri, url, authorHandle } of the post it replies to; threadRootUri is the thread's first post.
• repostedBy: set only when you include reposts: the account that reposted it.
• pinned: the account's pinned post, shown at the top of its posts.
• labels: moderation labels, such as content warnings.
• With a monitor ID: isNew.
• Dates are converted to UTC. Posted dates come from the post itself; indexedAt is when Bluesky saw it.

Run summary: the RUN_SUMMARY record has each search, account, post and feed with its status (ok, not found, blocked, failed or not read), the reason, pages read, posts delivered and, for searches, Bluesky's total match count. It also has the totals: posts, profiles, new posts, posts left out by your filters, and requests.

Integrations

• Schedules: run it hourly or daily in Apify Console. With a monitor ID, each run returns only new posts.

• Apify API: start a run and get the posts back as JSON in one call:

  curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/subtleasianmerch~bluesky-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"searchQueries": ["apify"], "handles": ["bsky.app"], "maxPostsPerSource": 20}'
  

  Replace YOUR_TOKEN with your Apify API token.

• Webhooks: call your own endpoint when a run finishes, for example to post new mentions into your app.

• Make, Zapier and n8n: send new posts to Slack, email or a CRM with Apify's apps for these tools.

• Monitoring: Apify's monitoring can alert you when a scheduled run fails or returns fewer results than usual.

FAQ

Is it legal to use?

Bluesky's own rules were checked on 31 October 2026. Its robots.txt allows crawling and points bulk users to the API. Its API docs list the public hosts this Actor uses for requests without an account. Its Terms of Service (last updated 14 August 2025) have no clause on scraping or automated collection. Posts still belong to the people who wrote them and are personal data: use what you collect lawfully, and respect privacy laws. Bluesky's developer guidelines ask apps to remove content people delete; if you keep or show these posts, delete the ones later removed. This isn't legal advice.

Do I need a Bluesky account?

No. Everything comes from Bluesky's public API, without logging in.

Why only 100 posts per search?

That's Bluesky's limit for searches without an account: it answers one page of results and refuses the next with "forbidden by administrative rules". The Actor respects it. Use more specific words, or monitor the search on a schedule: an hourly or daily run catches each new post. Post search goes to api.bsky.app, which Bluesky's docs list as the other direct host for requests without an account; all other reads use the cached public API (public.api.bsky.app).

How far back can it read an account?

To its first post. In a test, bsky.app's posts went back to 12 April 2023. Reposts are left out by default and don't count toward your limit.

How do I get only new posts?

Add a monitor ID, keep Output only new posts on, and schedule the Actor. Runs with the same monitor ID remember the posts they delivered, for 60 days. The first run outputs up to your limit from each source; later runs output only posts not delivered before. Turn Output only new posts off to get every post, with isNew marking the new ones. In a test, a run 4 minutes after the first output only the 4 new posts for "bitcoin". The New York Times account cost a single request, because nothing was new.

How fast is it?

Up to 100 posts per request, about two requests a second. In a test, 5 accounts gave 2,336 posts in 49 seconds.

What if Bluesky slows down or refuses?

The Actor uses plain requests and says it's a bot. If Bluesky asks it to slow down, it waits and retries. If Bluesky refuses, the run stops, keeps what it delivered, and says so.

Does it get followers lists?

Not yet. It gives each account's follower and following counts, not the lists.

Can I read a custom feed?

Yes. Paste the feed's link from bsky.app; the posts come in the feed's own order.

What happens with an account that doesn't exist?

It's listed in the run summary as "not found", with Bluesky's reason, and costs nothing.

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