Bluesky Post, Search & Profile Scraper

What does Bluesky Post, Search & Profile Scraper do?

Bluesky Post, Search & Profile Scraper pulls posts, search results, profiles, followers, follows and thread replies from Bluesky, the decentralized social network built on the AT Protocol. Reading a user's posts, profile, followers, follows or a thread needs nothing at all — it reads Bluesky's own public, unauthenticated AppView API (public.api.bsky.app), the same data Bluesky's website and mobile apps use, so there is no login, no cookie, no proxy and no anti-bot workaround involved. Full-text search is the one exception: Bluesky requires a signed-in session for it, so that mode needs an optional app password (never your main password — see Input below). Give it a handle, a search query or a post link and get back clean, flat rows ready for a spreadsheet, a BI tool or another Actor. Run it once from the Apify Console, on a schedule, or call it from your own code through the Apify API — with automatic retries, pagination and monitoring built in.

Why use Bluesky Post, Search & Profile Scraper?

• Social listening — track every mention of your brand, product or competitor with the search mode, filtered by date range and sorted by recency or engagement.
• Lead & influencer research — pull an account's bio, follower count and recent posts before reaching out, or export a whole follower/following list for outreach lists.
• Content monitoring — watch a list of accounts (journalists, competitors, industry voices) for new posts without opening the app.
• Conversation analysis — fetch a viral post's full reply thread to measure sentiment or find the most engaged replies.
• No credentials for most modes — posts, profile, followers, follows and thread all read Bluesky's public mirror, no login required. Only search needs an app password, because Bluesky itself requires a signed-in session for full-text search.

How to use Bluesky Post, Search & Profile Scraper

1. Click Try for free and open the Input tab.
2. Pick a Mode: posts (default) to read one or more accounts' own posts, search to search all public posts, profile/followers/follows for account data, or thread to expand one post's replies.
3. Fill in the field that mode needs — Handles, DIDs or profile URLs for posts/profile/followers/follows, Search query for search, or Post URL for thread.
4. search also needs Bluesky handle or e-mail and App password filled in — create an app password at bsky.app under Settings -> App Passwords (never enter your main account password).
5. Adjust Max items (rows per handle or query) and Max concurrency if needed, then click Start.
6. Export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML from the Storage tab, or pull them from the dataset through the API.

Input

Field	Type	Used by	Description
mode	enum	all	posts (default), search, profile, followers, follows or thread
handles	array	posts, profile, followers, follows	Handles, DIDs or bsky.app/profile/... URLs, e.g. bsky.app
searchQuery	string	search	Full-text search query, e.g. web scraping
identifier	string	search	Your Bluesky handle or e-mail, to sign in for search
appPassword	string (secret)	search	An app password for that account — not your main password
postUrl	string	thread	A bsky.app/profile/<handle>/post/<rkey> URL or an at:// URI
maxItems	integer	all	Max rows per handle/query (1-5000, default 100)
sort	enum	search	latest (default) or top
since / until	string	search	Optional ISO 8601 date bounds
maxConcurrency	integer	posts, profile, followers, follows	Handles processed in parallel (default 3)

Example input — posts (no credentials needed)

{
    "mode": "posts",
    "handles": ["bsky.app", "jay.bsky.team"],
    "maxItems": 50
}

Example input — search (needs an app password)

{
    "mode": "search",
    "searchQuery": "web scraping",
    "identifier": "yourname.bsky.social",
    "appPassword": "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx"
}

Bluesky moved full-text search behind a signed-in session — app.bsky.feed.searchPosts rejects anonymous calls outright. Every other mode (posts, profile, followers, follows, thread) stays fully anonymous and never needs identifier/appPassword. If search runs without them, it returns one row with a clear error message instead of crashing.

Output

Every mode produces one flat row per item in the default dataset. Posts (from posts, search and thread) and profiles (from profile, followers and follows) use two different but overlapping row shapes — unused fields come back null so both shapes can share one dataset.

Example output — a post row (posts/search/thread)

{
    "uri": "at://did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6oveex3ii2l",
    "cid": "bafyreicnt42y6vo6pfpvyro234ac4o6ijug6adwwrh7awflgrqlt4zibxq",
    "postUrl": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l",
    "text": "Bluesky is an open social network...",
    "createdAt": "2024-10-17T07:06:51.491Z",
    "authorHandle": "bsky.app",
    "authorDisplayName": "Bluesky",
    "likeCount": 63686,
    "repostCount": 9530,
    "replyCount": 8580,
    "quoteCount": 708,
    "hasImages": false,
    "isReply": false,
    "isRepost": false,
    "hashtags": [],
    "mentions": [],
    "query": "bsky.app",
    "error": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-13T01:11:00.000Z"
}

Example output — a profile row (profile/followers/follows)

{
    "did": "did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur",
    "handle": "bsky.app",
    "displayName": "Bluesky",
    "description": "official Bluesky account",
    "followersCount": 34878893,
    "followsCount": 15,
    "postsCount": 863,
    "createdAt": "2023-04-12T04:53:57.057Z",
    "profileUrl": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app",
    "query": "bsky.app",
    "error": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-13T01:11:00.000Z"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field group	Fields
Post identity	uri, cid, postUrl, text, createdAt, langs
Post author	authorHandle, authorDid, authorDisplayName, authorAvatar
Post engagement	likeCount, repostCount, replyCount, quoteCount
Post media	hasImages, imageCount, imageUrls, externalLinkUrl, externalLinkTitle
Post context	isReply, replyToUri, replyToAuthorHandle, isRepost, hashtags, mentions
Profile	did, handle, displayName, description, avatar, banner
Profile stats	followersCount, followsCount, postsCount, createdAt, profileUrl
Every row	query, error, scrapedAt

Pricing / Cost estimation

This Actor makes lightweight JSON calls to Bluesky's public API — no browser, no proxy required — so it runs comfortably on the smallest (1 GB) memory tier at roughly a few seconds per 100 rows. A typical run (a handful of handles, 100 items each) finishes in well under a minute of compute. Apify's free plan's monthly compute-unit allowance covers thousands of such runs.

Tips or advanced options

• Raise Max items to page further back in a feed, search or follower list — pagination via Bluesky's cursor is handled automatically.
• Lower Max concurrency if you see errors while scraping many handles at once; Bluesky's public API is generous but not unlimited.
• since/until only affect search mode and only filter by post creation time, not indexing time.
• Create the App password at bsky.app -> Settings -> App Passwords, not your main account password — Apify stores it encrypted as a secret input field and this Actor never logs it.
• A failed handle or query never crashes the run — it produces one row with error set and every other field null, so a large batch always finishes.

FAQ, disclaimers and support

This Actor only reads data Bluesky already serves through its own API — the same data anyone gets by opening a profile, search or thread in the app. Five of the six modes (posts, profile, followers, follows, thread) read Bluesky's public, unauthenticated mirror and need no credentials at all. search is the exception: Bluesky requires a signed-in session for full-text search, so that mode needs an app password — never your main account password, and this Actor never logs or stores it beyond the single sign-in call it makes on your behalf. This Actor does not post, follow or otherwise write to any account, and respects the rates Bluesky's API itself imposes. Handle counts and follower graphs can change between the moment you run this Actor and the moment you read the results. Found a bug or need a custom field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — custom modifications are available on request.

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