Apify Bluesky Scraper

Scrape Bluesky social posts via AT Protocol. Use when user asks to search Bluesky, find Bluesky posts, monitor Bluesky discussions, or extract Bluesky data....

Bluesky Scraper

Scrape Bluesky posts using an Apify Actor via the REST API.

Actor ID

WAJfBnZBYR9mJrk5d

Prerequisites

• APIFY_TOKEN environment variable must be set
• curl and jq must be available

Workflow

Step 1: Confirm search parameters with user

Ask what they want to search for. Supported input fields:

• searchTerms (array of strings) - keywords to search
• maxResults (integer) - max posts to return (default: 50)
• sortBy (string) - "relevance" or "latest"

Step 2: Run the Actor (synchronous)

RESULT=$(curl -s -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/WAJfBnZBYR9mJrk5d/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchTerms": ["SEARCH_TERM"], "maxResults": 50, "sortBy": "relevance"}')
echo "$RESULT" | jq '.'

For larger jobs (async):

RUN_ID=$(curl -s -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/WAJfBnZBYR9mJrk5d/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchTerms": ["TERM"], "maxResults": 50}' | jq -r '.data.id')

Step 3: Poll and fetch (if async)

STATUS=$(curl -s "https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/$RUN_ID?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" | jq -r '.data.status')
# Poll every 5s until SUCCEEDED or FAILED
curl -s "https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/$RUN_ID/dataset/items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" | jq '.'

Step 4: Present results

Summarize: total posts, top by engagement, common themes. Offer JSON/CSV export.

Error Handling

• If APIFY_TOKEN not set: export APIFY_TOKEN=your_token
• If run FAILS: curl -s "https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/$RUN_ID/log?token=$APIFY_TOKEN"
• Rate limited (429): wait 60s, retry