Threads Scraper: Profiles & Posts

Scrape public Threads profiles and posts without logging in. Add usernames or profile URLs and get follower counts, bios, verification, and each profile's recent posts with text, likes, replies, reposts, quotes, images, videos and link previews, in clean rows ready for analysis.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify — the free plan's monthly credit is enough to try this Actor.
2. Open Threads Scraper, fill in the input (the form is pre-filled with a working example) and click Start.
3. Watch results stream into the dataset table while the run is going.
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML or RSS — or pull the results from your own code with the Apify API.

Why use this Threads profiles and posts scraper?

• No login, no cookies, no browser. Fast HTTP requests only: 10 profiles and 80 posts in about 40 seconds in testing.
• Engagement metrics on every post: likes, replies, reposts, quotes and shares, plus the author's follower count and verification, so you can compute engagement rates right away.
• Full post content:
  • text, publish time, detected language
  • image, video and carousel media URLs
  • link previews, quoted and reposted posts
  • pinned posts, and follow-up posts in the author's own threads
• Bulk profiles. Process many accounts per run; missing or private accounts are skipped quickly without being charged.
• Three output modes. Posts (with author stats), profiles only (cheap audience checks), or both.
• Date filter. Keep only posts published after a given day.

How to scrape Threads profiles and posts

{
  "usernames": ["zuck", "https://www.threads.com/@nasa", "@netflix"],
  "mode": "both",
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 30,
  "includeSelfThreadReplies": true,
  "postedAfter": "2026-09-01"
}

Input reference

Every option at a glance. A minimal input that works as-is:

{
  "usernames": [
    "zuck",
    "nasa"
  ],
  "searchSort": "both",
  "mode": "posts",
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 50,
  "includeSelfThreadReplies": true,
  "maxResults": 1000
}

All fields:

• usernames (Profiles) — Threads usernames (with or without @) or profile URLs, e.g. “zuck”, “https://www.threads.com/@nasa”. Optional if you search by keyword.
• searchKeywords (Search keywords) — Find Threads posts by keyword or hashtag, no login. Threads shows logged-out visitors one page per search, so each keyword returns about 20-40 posts (top and recent combined). Run on a schedule with “Only new posts” to keep collecting.
• searchSort (Search results) — Which Threads search tab to read. Options: both (Top and recent (most posts)), top (Top only), recent (Recent only); default "both".
• mode (What to return) — Posts include the author's follower count and verification. Choose Profiles only for fast audience checks. Options: posts (Posts (with author stats)), profiles (Profiles only), both (Profiles + posts); default "posts".
• maxPostsPerProfile (Max posts per profile) — Newest first. Threads shows logged-out visitors roughly the latest 25 threads per profile (including the author's follow-up posts in each thread). Default 50.
• includeSelfThreadReplies (Include follow-up posts in the author's threads) — Threads often continue across several posts by the same author. Turn off to get only the first post of each thread. Default true.
• postedAfter (Only posts published after) — Optional date filter (YYYY-MM-DD).
• onlyNewPosts (Only posts that are new) — Monitoring mode. Remembers the posts you already pulled for each profile and returns only ones posted since. Run it on a schedule to follow accounts — you pay only for new posts. Default false.
• maxResults (Max results) — Stop after this many records. You are charged per record. Default 1000.
• proxy (Proxy) — Apify datacenter proxy works for public Threads profiles.

What the Threads profiles and posts output looks like

Profile

{
  "type": "profile",
  "username": "nasa",
  "fullName": "NASA",
  "userId": "28829152388",
  "isVerified": true,
  "followerCount": 12737290,
  "biography": "Making the seemingly impossible, possible. ✨",
  "bioLinks": [],
  "profileUrl": "https://www.threads.com/@nasa"
}

Post

{
  "type": "post",
  "postId": "3917199181999591572",
  "code": "DZcr-bdiVCU",
  "url": "https://www.threads.com/@nike/post/DZcr-bdiVCU",
  "username": "nike",
  "text": "Dear Football, Eric Cantona has a message for you.",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-11T14:02:58.000Z",
  "likeCount": 511,
  "replyCount": 27,
  "repostCount": 40,
  "quoteCount": 3,
  "shareCount": 15,
  "isReplyInThread": false,
  "isPinned": false,
  "language": null,
  "media": [
    {
      "type": "video",
      "url": "https://scontent-hou1-1.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t16/f2/m84/AQN…",
      "thumbnail": "https://scontent-hou1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.71878-15/721151782_1287538230210612_2941108055147219641_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_cat=100&ig_cache_key=MzkxNzE5OTE4MTk5OTU5MTU3Mg%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=58cdad&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6IkZFRUQueHBpZHMuNjQwLnNkci52aWRlb19kZWZhdWx0X2NvdmVyX2ZyYW1lLkMzIn0%3D&_nc_ohc=25BnBLjnBGcQ7kNvwEpyGnt&_nc_oc=AdozGm5esVPqp45DiNO9u4YKy0O92foRZd9H3StOfS6uYIYCkUlONuOld5xR_vtiDcM&_nc_ad=z-m&_nc_cid=0&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-hou1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_gid=-F6W0hPtUHhASIIVnx28pw&_nc_ss=7a22e&oh=00_AQISrNfFC9rpromStBvAb2BXj4Am7uxKZDQL7qXONEDxAg&oe=6AB1A348"
    }
  ],
  "linkPreview": null,
  "authorFollowerCount": 15062887,
  "authorIsVerified": true
}

What can you do with Threads profiles and posts data?

• Social media & brand monitoring: track what brands, creators and competitors post and how it performs.
• Influencer marketing: vet creators by followers, posting frequency and engagement.
• Market & trend research: collect posts from industry voices and media accounts.
• Content strategy & AI analysis: feed post text and engagement into dashboards or LLMs.

How much does it cost?

Pay per record (a profile or a post), plus a negligible start fee per run. Choose Profiles only for the cheapest audience checks.

How to monitor Threads profiles and posts for changes

Turn on onlyNewPosts and the Actor remembers the posts it already returned for each profile. On the next run you get only new posts. Useful for following a set of accounts on a schedule without paying for their whole history each time.

Notes and limits

• Threads shows logged-out visitors roughly the latest 25 threads per profile, including the author's follow-up posts in those threads (often 30–50 posts). Older posts and reply sections under posts are not available without login.
• Only public profiles and posts are collected.
• If something breaks after a Threads change, open an issue and it will be fixed quickly. The scraper also re-detects Threads' internal query automatically when it changes.

How to search Threads by keyword

Put words or hashtags in searchKeywords (for example k league or #AI). No login is used. Threads shows logged-out visitors one page of results per search, so each keyword returns about 20-40 posts, combining the Top and Recent tabs (searchSort). Run it on a schedule with onlyNewPosts to keep collecting new posts for a keyword over time. Each post row has searchKeyword so you can tell searches apart.

Pricing — what you pay per record

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing: no monthly rental, you pay for the results you get. Prices per 1,000 results by Apify plan:

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold+
record — One Threads profile or post saved to the dataset	$2.00	$1.80	$1.70	$1.60

There is also a small start fee of $0.00005 per GB of memory ($0.00005 per run at the default 1 GB). Platform compute is included in the price — you are not billed separately for run time. Set a maximum total charge on the run if you want a hard cap, and use the input limits to control how much is fetched. The current prices are always on the Pricing tab.

Tips

• Start with a small maxResults (say 20) to check the output, then raise it — you only pay per result.
• For ongoing tracking, schedule the Actor and turn on onlyNewPosts so each run returns only what is new.
• Keep the default proxy setting — it is only used as a fallback when a direct request is blocked.
• Rows the Actor cannot read are logged and skipped, never charged — check the run log if a count looks low.

Automate & schedule

Run this Actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API — start runs, fetch datasets and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python — official SDKs.
• Schedules — run it on a cron to keep your data fresh.
• Webhooks — trigger downstream actions the moment a run finishes.

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('tindacloud/threads-scraper').call({
    "usernames": [
        "zuck",
        "nasa"
    ],
    "searchSort": "both",
    "mode": "posts",
    "maxPostsPerProfile": 50,
    "includeSelfThreadReplies": true,
    "maxResults": 1000
});

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

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("MY_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("tindacloud/threads-scraper").call(run_input={
    "usernames": [
        "zuck",
        "nasa"
    ],
    "searchSort": "both",
    "mode": "posts",
    "maxPostsPerProfile": 50,
    "includeSelfThreadReplies": True,
    "maxResults": 1000
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

cURL — run and get the results in one request:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/tindacloud~threads-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=MY_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"usernames": ["zuck", "nasa"], "searchSort": "both", "mode": "posts", "maxPostsPerProfile": 50, "includeSelfThreadReplies": true, "maxResults": 1000}'

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to thousands of apps — no code required:

• Make — multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier — push new records straight into your CRM or sheet.
• n8n — self-hosted workflows.
• Slack — get notified when a run finishes or finds something new.
• Google Drive / Sheets — auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte — pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub — trigger runs from commits or releases.
• Webhooks — call your own endpoint when a run succeeds or fails.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. Call this Actor from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any agent framework through the Apify MCP server — ask your assistant to "get the follower counts and latest posts of these Threads accounts" and let it run this Actor for you.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This Actor is agent-ready — AI agents can discover it, run it and pay for it on their own. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic payments:

• x402 — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay in USDC through the Apify MCP server — no Apify account needed.
• Skyfire — agent-to-service payments with pre-funded Skyfire tokens.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool or data pipeline? This Actor is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

Ready-made examples

Open one, change the fields, press Start — nothing to configure:

• Scrape Threads profiles and posts

Frequently asked questions about scraping Threads profiles and posts

Do I need an API key or a login?

No. Paste your input, press Start. There is nothing to connect and no account on the target site to create.

How do I export the results?

Every run produces a dataset you can download as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or read through the Apify API from your own code. You can also connect it to Make, Zapier or n8n.

Can I run this on a schedule?

Yes. Apify schedules run it every hour, day or week without you being there. With the monitoring option on, you only get posts published since the last run.

Can I call it from Python or JavaScript?

Yes — the Apify API runs any Actor and returns the dataset, and the official Python and JavaScript clients wrap it in a few lines. AI agents can call it too, through Apify's MCP server.

What does it cost?

You pay per result, not per hour. Filters are applied before anything is charged, so narrowing the input directly lowers the bill. Pages that cannot be read are reported in the log and never charged.

Is this data public?

Everything collected here is what Threads shows to anyone without logging in. Check the target site's terms and the rules that apply to you before using the data commercially.

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Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Meta Platforms, Inc.. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "Threads" is named here only in a descriptive sense — to identify the publicly available website this Actor reads. It collects only publicly available information that anyone can see without logging in; you are responsible for making sure your use of the data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the terms of the source website.