Bluesky Scraper Suite (AT Protocol)

Scrape Bluesky posts, profiles, account search, and custom feeds straight from the free, open AT Protocol — no proxies, no headless browser, no anti-bot games. Four of the five modes need no login at all.

What it does

Mode	What you get	Login needed?
posts	All posts from one or more authors (author feed)	No
profile	Full profile data for one or more handles/DIDs	No
search + accounts	Account/handle search results	No
search + posts	Full-text post search	Yes (free app password)
feed	Posts from any Bluesky feed generator	No

Input

{
  "mode": "posts",
  "handles": ["bsky.app", "news.bsky.team"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

{ "mode": "profile", "handles": ["bsky.app"] }

{ "mode": "search", "searchTarget": "accounts", "query": "journalist", "maxItems": 50 }

{
  "mode": "feed",
  "feedUrl": "at://did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/app.bsky.feed.generator/whats-hot",
  "maxItems": 100
}

For search + posts, add a free Bluesky app password (Settings → App Passwords — never your main password):

{ "mode": "search", "searchTarget": "posts", "query": "apify",
  "identifier": "you.bsky.social", "appPassword": "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx", "maxItems": 50 }

Fields

• mode (required) — posts | profile | search | feed
• handles[] — for posts and profile
• query — for search
• searchTarget — accounts (no login) or posts (needs app password)
• feedUrl — AT-URI for feed
• maxItems — caps results (and your cost). Default 100.
• identifier / appPassword — only for post search; stored as secrets.

Output

Post row:

{
  "scrapedMode": "posts", "type": "post",
  "uri": "at://did:plc:.../app.bsky.feed.post/3l...",
  "cid": "bafy...",
  "authorHandle": "bsky.app", "authorDid": "did:plc:...", "authorDisplayName": "Bluesky",
  "text": "Hello from Bluesky", "createdAt": "2026-05-30T12:00:00Z",
  "likeCount": 1234, "repostCount": 56, "replyCount": 12, "quoteCount": 3,
  "langs": ["en"], "embedType": "app.bsky.embed.images#view",
  "postUrl": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l..."
}

Profile row:

{
  "scrapedMode": "profile", "type": "profile",
  "did": "did:plc:...", "handle": "bsky.app", "displayName": "Bluesky",
  "description": "...", "followersCount": 1500000, "followsCount": 50, "postsCount": 900,
  "avatar": "https://cdn.bsky.app/...", "createdAt": "2023-04-01T00:00:00Z",
  "profileUrl": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app"
}

Pricing

Pay per result — $0.002 per item. You only pay for rows actually returned; maxItems is a hard cap on cost.

Reliability

• Exponential backoff on rate limits (429) and server errors (5xx).
• Cursor pagination — pulls exactly up to maxItems.
• One malformed record is logged and skipped; the run never crashes on a single bad item.
• Built directly on the official AT Protocol XRPC API.

Data usage & compliance

This actor reads only public data exposed by the Bluesky AppView / AT Protocol public API (public.api.bsky.app), the same data a logged-out visitor sees on bsky.app. Post search uses your own Bluesky session via a revocable app password. Use the output in accordance with Bluesky's Terms of Service and applicable privacy law; do not use it to harass, deanonymize, or spam users.