How to Scrape Threads — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

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If you need to pull Threads data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the Threads Scraper - Scrape threads.net Posts, No Login, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no Threads login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

fromSource
text
likeCount
replyCount
repostCount
quoteCount
createdAt
url

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/threads-scraper
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install threads-scraper

const scrape = require("threads-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install apify-threads-scraper

from threads_scraper import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`usernames`	array	Threads usernames
`postUrls`	array	Post URLs
`searchTerms`	array	Search terms / tags
`maxResults`	integer	Max results per target
`includeReplies`	boolean	Include reply threads (expand)
`expandFromProfiles`	boolean	Expand profile posts
`expandFromSearch`	boolean	Expand search posts
`maxExpandPerTarget`	integer	Max posts to expand per target
`maxRepliesPerPost`	integer	Max replies kept per post
`proxyConfiguration`	object	Proxy

Common use cases

Build a fresh Threads dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed Threads records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date Threads data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.