Bluesky crossed 43 million users this year, picking up a real share of the people leaving X. Search the Apify Store for a Bluesky scraper and you'll find over a dozen — the most popular one has 284 total users. Several are rated 1 star with a single review. Nobody has built the "Instagram Scraper"-grade version yet.
What's actually true about Bluesky's API
Unlike every other social platform, most of it is wide open: profiles, a user's posts, followers/following, and account search all answer with a plain 200 — no login, no proxy, no cookies. Verified live before writing a line of code.
The one exception is keyword post search, which needs a logged-in session — that's Bluesky's own requirement (a clear 401 AuthMissing), not an anti-bot wall to work around. A Bluesky App Password (never your real account password) unlocks it.
What you get
6 modes in one actor: profiles, a user's posts, followers, following, search accounts by keyword, and search posts by keyword. A profile row looks like this:
{
"type": "profile",
"handle": "bsky.app",
"display_name": "Bluesky",
"followers_count": 34865368,
"posts_count": 863,
"created_at": "2023-04-12T04:53:57.057Z"
}
$3.50 per 1,000 results. A handle or term that fails is skipped and never billed.
Try it on Apify: https://apify.com/0xgollum/bluesky-scraper
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