Apify Threads Scraper

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: May 29, 2026, 8:37 PM
• Version:
  0.2.1

Overview

This is an instruction-only Threads scraping skill that coherently uses Apify, with privacy and token-handling cautions but no evidence of hidden or malicious behavior.

Before installing, confirm you are comfortable sending Threads usernames, keywords, and scraped results to Apify and using the named third-party actor. Use a dedicated Apify token if possible, keep it out of shared logs, start with small max_posts values, and handle any scraped emails, phone numbers, or profile data according to applicable privacy and platform rules.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
• Excessive Agency: Unrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep

Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 94% confidence
• Finding: The skill sends user-supplied search terms, usernames, and scraped Threads content to Apify and then prints returned data to the local console, but it does not warn the user that third-party processing and local exposure will occur. This creates a real transparency and privacy risk because operators may unknowingly transmit sensitive targets, monitoring subjects, or scraped content to an external service and expose results in logs or terminals.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.