Bluesky Scraper - Posts, Search, Profiles & Hashtags API

What does Bluesky Scraper do?

Bluesky Scraper collects public posts and profiles from Bluesky through the network's own public API. Search posts by keyword, phrase or #hashtag, filter by language, date range, author or a linked website, read the latest posts of any account, look up profiles with follower counts, find accounts by topic, or fetch specific posts by URL. Each post comes back with its text, timestamp, author, like/repost/reply/quote counts, hashtags, links, images or video and reply or quote relations.

It talks directly to api.bsky.app, the public AppView that Bluesky provides for reading public content. Its robots.txt states that crawling the public parts of the API is allowed and that HTTP 429 is used for rate limiting; the Actor respects that with a handful of concurrent requests and automatic back-off. There is no login, no browser and no API key.

Why use Bluesky Scraper?

• Official public API, no login. No cookies, no app passwords, no accounts at risk. Only public content is read.
• Real search. Keywords, exact phrases, #hashtags, language, "latest" or "top" ordering, date range, a single author, or every post that links to a given website. A keyword search returns up to 100 posts per query and date window (see the FAQ); schedule it hourly or slice by date for brand monitoring, topic research and link tracking.
• Accounts and profiles. Read an account's recent posts (originals, with replies, or media only) and get a profile row with display name, bio, followers, following, posts count, join date and verification status.
• Find accounts. Search for accounts by name or topic, for example "data journalism", and get profiles with follower counts.
• Fast and cheap. One request returns up to 100 posts, so a run takes seconds and costs about $0.15 per 100 posts.
• Pipeline friendly. One flat JSON object per row with a type field (post or profile), ready for sheets, databases, LLMs and dashboards.
• Pay only for results. Pay per post or profile returned. Unknown accounts and empty searches are free.

What data can you extract?

Post rows (type: "post"):

Field	Example	Description
text	Brave sued for scraping web content…	Post text
createdAt / indexedAt	2026-11-04T12:37:44.640Z	When it was written and when Bluesky indexed it
url / uri	https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3mzh…	Link to the post and its AT-protocol URI
authorHandle / authorDisplayName / authorDid	seonews.bsky.social	Public account identifiers
likeCount / repostCount / replyCount / quoteCount	37 / 12 / 3 / 1	Engagement counts
hashtags / links	["ai", "brave"]	Hashtags and URLs in the post
languages	["en"]	Language tags set by the author
embedType	images / video / link / quote	Kind of attachment
imageUrls / videoUrl / externalLink		Image URLs, video playlist, shared link with title and description
isReply / replyParentUri / replyRootUri		Reply structure
quotedPostUri		The quoted post, if any
repostedBy	bsky.app	Set when an account's feed shows a repost
source	search:web scraping	Which search, account or URL produced the row

Profile rows (type: "profile"): handle, did, displayName, description (bio), followersCount, followsCount, postsCount, createdAt, avatar, banner, verified, labels, url.

How to use Bluesky Scraper (step by step)

1. Click Try for free.
2. For a topic search, put your keywords in Search posts for keywords, one search per line. Use quotes for phrases and # for hashtags. Pick Latest or Top, and optionally a language, a date range or an author.
3. To read accounts, add handles or profile URLs under Accounts to read and choose which posts you want. A profile row is added for each account unless you switch that off.
4. To discover accounts, enter topics under Search for accounts. To fetch single posts, paste their URLs under Post URLs.
5. Set Max results per search or account and Max results per run. You pay per result.
6. Click Start and open the Posts or Profiles view, or export JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input example

{
  "searchQueries": ["web scraping", "\"open data\"", "#rstats"],
  "sort": "latest",
  "language": "en",
  "since": "2026-10-01",
  "profiles": ["bsky.app", "https://bsky.app/profile/apify.com"],
  "profileFeed": "posts_no_replies",
  "includeProfiles": true,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxItemsTotal": 1000
}

Output example

{
  "type": "post",
  "uri": "at://did:plc:embrbvwkrwf6ymtvwwrn3ucs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mziemqn5lq27",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/seonews.bsky.social/post/3mziemqn5lq27",
  "text": "Brave sued for scraping web content and selling to AI firms …",
  "createdAt": "2026-11-04T12:37:44.640Z",
  "languages": ["en"],
  "authorHandle": "seonews.bsky.social",
  "authorDisplayName": "SEO News",
  "likeCount": 0,
  "repostCount": 0,
  "replyCount": 0,
  "quoteCount": 0,
  "hashtags": ["brave", "ai"],
  "links": ["https://www.example.com/article"],
  "embedType": "video",
  "isReply": false,
  "source": "search:web scraping",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-04T13:07:09Z"
}

How much does it cost?

Bluesky Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing.

Event	Price (Free plan)	When it is charged
Actor start	$0.0005	Once per run
Post	$0.0015 ($1.50 per 1,000 posts)	Every post row returned
Profile	$0.002 ($2 per 1,000 profiles)	Every profile row returned

Unknown accounts, deleted posts, searches without results and error rows are free. Paid Apify plans get Store discounts (Bronze −15%, Silver −30%, Gold and up −45%).

Worked examples (Free plan prices):

• The 100 latest posts for each of 10 keywords: 1,000 posts ≈ $1.50.
• The last 200 posts of 10 accounts plus their profiles: 2,000 posts + 10 profiles ≈ $3.02.
• 500 accounts found for "data journalism" with follower counts: ≈ $1.00.

Use cases

• Brand and topic monitoring. Track what is said about your company, product or topic, in a language you choose, on a schedule.
• Link tracking. Find every post that shares links to your site or a competitor's, and see engagement per link.
• Research. Collect posts for discourse analysis, sentiment studies or datasets, with timestamps and engagement.
• Influencer and community discovery. Search accounts by topic and rank them by followers; read what they post.
• News and media monitoring. Follow journalists, outlets and official accounts that have moved to Bluesky.
• LLM and RAG pipelines. Feed fresh posts into models and agents.

Use with AI agents, MCP and the API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/teddythebuilder~bluesky-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQueries":["web scraping"],"maxItems":20}'

Python with apify-client:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("teddythebuilder/bluesky-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchQueries": ["#opendata"],
    "sort": "top",
    "since": "2026-10-01",
    "maxItems": 100,
})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row["likeCount"], row["authorHandle"], row["text"][:100])

MCP: available as a tool in the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients.

Integrations

Send results to Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, Slack, email, a database, Make, Zapier, n8n or a webhook. Schedule the Actor to monitor a keyword or account every hour or day.

Data source and legality

Bluesky is an open network and its AppView API is published for reading public content. This Actor reads only what that API returns without login: public posts and public profile information. It respects the API's published robots.txt and rate limits, identifies itself in the user agent, does not log in, and does not read private or follower-only content. Direct messages are not accessible.

Posts and profiles are public but can contain personal data (names, handles, opinions, bios). If you collect them, you are responsible for a lawful basis under rules such as GDPR, for honouring deletion requests and for how you use the data. This Actor does not collect e-mail addresses, phone numbers or other private contact data.

FAQ

Do I need a Bluesky account or API key? No. The Actor reads public data without any login.

How many posts does a keyword search return? Up to 100 per query and date window. Bluesky refuses to page through keyword search results for requests without a login (it answers 403 to the next page), and this Actor does not work around that. To collect more, run the same query for consecutive date windows with Posted after and Posted before (for example one day each), or schedule a run every hour with the "Latest" order. Account feeds are not limited this way: they page through the account's posts up to your maximum.

Why does a search for "everything from an account in a date range" need a keyword? Bluesky's search API does not accept an empty query together with a date filter. To read an account, use Accounts to read, which returns the account's latest posts directly. To filter by date and domain, the Actor uses the domain name as the search term.

Can it get followers or following lists? Not in this version. Profiles include the follower and following counts.

Can it get replies to a post? Reply relations are included (replyParentUri, replyRootUri) and you can search for replies to a topic. Fetching a full thread is not part of this version.

Are deleted or private posts returned? No. Deleted posts are reported as "post_not_found_or_deleted" (free); private content is not available through the public API.

How fresh is the data? Bluesky indexes new posts within seconds, so searches return posts from the last minute.

Questions or bugs? Open an issue on the actor page. We reply within 24 hours. If the actor helps you, a rating on the Store page helps others find it.

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• Hacker News Scraper: Who is hiring posts and stories from Hacker News.
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• Website Contact Scraper: company contact details from websites.
• Audio & Video to Text: transcribe audio and video files.

Changelog and support

• 1.0 (November 2026): first release. Post search with language, date, author and linked-domain filters; account feeds; profiles; account search; post URLs.

Questions or feature requests? Open an issue on the actor page. We reply within 24 hours.