Bluesky Scraper — Posts, Likes, Reposts & Account Stats

What is this account posting, how often, and how much of it lands?

Every post from any Bluesky account, newest first, one row per post: the text, likes, reposts, replies, quotes, what media it carries, the links and hashtags in it, whether it is a reply or a repost and of whom, and when it went out. Or flip the switch and get one summary row per account — followers, posts per week, median likes, likes per thousand followers, reply and repost share — for a whole list of accounts in one run.

No login. No API key. No app password. No proxies.

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Two modes

Posts — one row per post. The default. Point it at a handle and get its recent posts as a table you can filter by likes, media type or date. Replies are off by default and reposts are on; both are switches. Ask for more with the cap and it walks back page by page.

Summary — one row per account. Give it fifty handles and get fifty rows you can sort: who has the followers, who actually gets likes per follower, who posts daily and who has gone quiet, who mostly reposts, who mostly replies.

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What you get

Posts mode

The post — text, langs, links, mentions, hashtags, mediaType (images, video, link, quote, none), imageUrls, imageAlts, videoThumbnailUrl, externalUrl, externalTitle, labels

How it did — likes, reposts, replies, quotes, bookmarks, engagement (likes + reposts + replies + quotes)

What kind of post — isReply and replyToUrl, isRepost and repostedAt (the row's author is then the original poster, the account column is who reposted it), isQuote with quotedPostUrl, quotedAuthorHandle, quotedText

Who and when — account (as you typed it), authorHandle, authorDisplayName, authorDid, createdAt, daysSincePosted, indexedAt, postUrl, postUri

Summary mode

account, handle, displayName, profileUrl, description, followers, follows, postsTotal, verified, accountCreatedAt, accountAgeDays, itemsRead, originalPostsRead, postsLast7d, postsLast30d, postsPerWeek, activityLast7d, activityLast30d, activityPerWeek, medianLikes, averageLikes, medianReposts, medianReplies, medianEngagement, likesPerThousandFollowers, repostSharePercent, replySharePercent, mediaPostsPercent, linkPostsPercent, quotePostsPercent, latestActivityAt, daysSinceLastActivity, oldestItemReadAt, avatarUrl, did, status

"Posts" in the summary means the account's own top-level posts. "Activity" means everything it put in its feed: posts, replies and reposts. Engagement medians are computed on the account's own top-level posts only, so a heavy reposter's numbers are not the numbers of the people it reposts.

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Typical uses

• Monitor accounts in your market. Posts mode with daysBack: 7 on a schedule — a dated log of everything a set of accounts published, with likes and reposts at that moment.
• Vet an account before a partnership or a sponsorship. Summary mode: followers alone say little; likesPerThousandFollowers and postsPerWeek say whether anyone is reading.
• Track your own account. Which posts got the likes and the reposts, which media type works, what got quoted.
• Research. Public statements with permanent links, reposts and their sources, quote chains.

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Input

Field	What it does
accounts	Handles, profile links or DIDs: bsky.app, @nytimes.com, https://bsky.app/profile/theonion.com, did:plc:….
mode	posts (default) or summary.
daysBack	0 for no date filter; 7 or 30 for a window.
maxPosts	Cap per account, newest first. Default 100; up to 10,000. Bluesky serves 100 per page.
includeReplies	Posts mode. Off by default.
includeReposts	Posts mode. On by default; rows are marked isRepost.

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What it costs

$1.50 per 1,000 posts in posts mode, $10.00 per 1,000 account summaries in summary mode, plus $0.005 per run. Apify's Starter, Scale and Business plans get 10%, 20% and 30% off.

You pay for rows delivered. An account that does not exist, is deactivated or suspended, or a window that matches nothing costs nothing.

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How it works

Bluesky runs on the AT Protocol, and its public app view answers read-only questions — a profile, an account's feed — to anyone, in JSON, without an account. This actor asks those two questions and nothing else: no login, no app password, no proxies, no HTML parsing. Rich-text facets are decoded so links, mentions and hashtags come out as columns; embeds are classified so you know whether a post carried images, a video, a link card or a quote.

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Honest limits

• Accounts only, no keyword search. Bluesky's search endpoint refuses requests from datacenter addresses, so a search mode would fail on Apify's servers. It is not offered rather than offered badly.
• What you see is what Bluesky's public view shows. Posts the author deleted are gone; posts behind a block or a moderation takedown are not there. Accounts that are deactivated or suspended are reported as such and return no rows.
• createdAt is written by the posting client and is occasionally wrong (a mis-set clock, a backdated import). It is normalised to UTC as-is; indexedAt is the time Bluesky first saw the post and is always reliable.
• Counts are the counts at run time. Likes and reposts keep moving; a scheduled run gives you the curve.
• Cadence figures in summary mode are computed from the items read. If the cap is reached before the 30-day window is covered, postsLast7d, postsLast30d, postsPerWeek and the activity figures are left empty rather than reported as a floor, and status says so. Raise the cap to fill them in.
• A quoted post that has since been deleted keeps its quotedPostUrl but has no author or text.
• Bluesky rate-limits heavy readers. Pages are read one at a time with a short pause; a run on hundreds of accounts at once may see HTTP 429, which is reported per account rather than failing the run.

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Scheduling

Accounts post daily. Schedule posts mode with daysBack: 7 on your list and each run adds the week's posts with their counts at that moment; schedule summary mode weekly and you have a dated record of followers, cadence and reach over time.

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Legal

This actor reads only what Bluesky's public app view serves to anyone without authentication. It requires no account and bypasses no access control. Bluesky posts are public by design of the protocol; the actor returns the author handle Bluesky itself displays. You remain responsible for how you use the exported data.

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Questions, or an account that behaves oddly? Open an issue on the actor — issues are read and answered.