Bluesky Scraper API
Bluesky API: 3 endpoints for profiles, user post feeds, and post details with threaded replies. Every call costs 1 credit, and new accounts start with 100 free credits — no credit card. Plain REST with one x-api-key: no AT Protocol sessions, XRPC lexicons, DIDs, or app passwords to manage.
TL;DR
The Bluesky API by SocialCrawl returns Bluesky data as structured JSON — 3 endpoints behind one x-api-key, from 1 credit per call. It shares one unified schema with 43 other platforms, so the same client code works everywhere.
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Type a real handle, run a real request, see the JSON SocialCrawl returns. No signup, no key — same response shape you get in production.
Try the Bluesky Profile API
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What data does the Bluesky API return?
Every endpoint returns structured JSON with a unified schema. Computed fields like engagement rate and content category come standard.
Last updated July 2026
Maintained by the SocialCrawl team, reviewed July 2026
What Bluesky data can you get?
Every Bluesky endpoint returns the same unified JSON schema, so one parser handles the whole platform. These are the real fields the Bluesky API returns, taken straight from live responses.
Fields you get back in a Bluesky response include:
- id
- username
- display_name
- avatar_url
- bio
- verified
- followers
- following
- posts_count
- likes_count
- url
- private
- joined_at
- computed.engagement_rate
- computed.language
- computed.content_category
- computed.estimated_reach
- post.id
- post.url
- post.content
- post.author
- post.engagement
- post.flags
- post.published_at
How to scrape Bluesky in 3 steps
No proxies, no headless browsers, no login sessions. Send one authenticated GET request and read structured JSON back.
- 1
Get a free API key
Create an account and copy your key from the dashboard. Signup includes 100 free credits, and no card is required.
- 2
Call the Profile endpoint
Send a GET request with your key in the x-api-key header. Here is the full Bluesky Profile request:
curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \ "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/bluesky/profile?handle=espn.com" - 3
Read the unified JSON
The response comes back in the shared SocialCrawl schema, with computed fields like engagement_rate and content_category already filled in, so the same client code works across every platform.
Requirements and limits
Everything you need to know before your first Bluesky call.
- Authentication
- One API key, passed in the x-api-key request header. No OAuth flow, no app review, and no per-platform credentials to manage.
- Pagination
- List endpoints return a next_cursor and a has_more flag. Pass the cursor back to page through results, with the same contract on every platform.
- Credits
- Calls start at 1 credits and are deducted per request. Every account starts with 100 free credits, and credits never expire.
- Rate limits
- There are no artificial rate limits. Your credit balance is the only throttle, so you can run requests concurrently as fast as you need.
How much does the Bluesky API cost?
Simple credit-based pricing with no subscription. You pay per call, and the exact credit cost of every Bluesky endpoint is listed below.
| Endpoint | Credits per call |
|---|---|
| Profile | 1 credit |
| User Posts | 1 credit |
| Post | 1 credit |
Every account starts with 100 free credits, and no card is required.
At credit-pack pricing that works out to roughly £0.002 to £0.006 per call, and credits never expire.
How do you scrape social media data in seconds?
The fastest social media scraping API for developers. Scrape profiles, posts, comments, and analytics from 44 platforms covering 10B+ monthly active users.
One schema, every platform
Query 44 platforms with identical response structures. Write your integration once.
Computed fields, not just scraped
Every response includes engagement_rate, estimated_reach, content_category, and language — ready to use.
See your data before you code
Visual Data Explorer — paste any URL, get rich result cards, sortable tables, CSV export.
import requests
response = requests.get(
'https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/profile',
params={'handle': 'charlidamelio'},
headers={'x-api-key': 'sc_YOUR_API_KEY'}
)
data = response.json(){
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"data": {
"author": {
"username": "charlidamelio",
"followers": 152400000
},
"engagement": {
"likes": 12400000000,
"engagement_rate": 0.087
},
"metadata": {
"language": "en",
"content_category": "lifestyle"
}
}
}How does SocialCrawl handle 44 different platforms?
Social media scraping is hard. Schema normalization, authentication, rate limits, pagination — we handle it all before your data arrives.
Write once, query them all.
44 platforms return 44 different JSON shapes. We normalize every response into one consistent structure.
Metrics ready before you ask.
Engagement rate, estimated reach, content category, language — calculated on every response automatically.
One cursor, every platform.
Every platform paginates differently. We give you one consistent cursor-based system.
Live data, never cached.
Every request hits the actual platform. No stale data, no cache lag.
Auth, proxies, and rate limits — handled.
Platform authentication, IP rotation, rate limit management — abstracted away. Just send a GET request.
What developers say
The unified schema saved us weeks of integration work. One parser handles every platform.
Our agents process social data from 44 platforms with zero platform-specific logic — one schema, end to end.
I paste an influencer's URL and get everything — followers, engagement rate, content categories — without touching code.
We switched from building our own scrapers. SocialCrawl handles the hard stuff, we focus on insights.
The computed fields alone — engagement_rate, estimated_reach, content_category — saved us an entire data pipeline.
How does SocialCrawl compare to AT Protocol (direct) for Bluesky data?
Same Bluesky data, two very different paths. Auth, rate limits, schema, and cost — side by side.
| Feature | SocialCrawl | AT Protocol (direct) |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | One x-api-key header | Session-based auth with app passwords or OAuth |
| Setup / approval | Sign up and call immediately | No approval queue, but you build an XRPC client with lexicons and DIDs |
| Rate limits | Credit-based — pay per request | Per-account and per-IP limits you manage yourself |
| Response schema | Unified JSON shared across 44 platforms | AT Protocol records with lexicon-specific shapes |
| Pricing | 1 credit per request; 100 free credits on signup | Free — you pay in engineering and infrastructure time |
| Data coverage | Profiles, post feeds, and reply threads — read-only | Full network access including posting, firehose streams, and custom feeds |
| Maintenance | Schema stays stable when Bluesky changes internals | You track lexicon and protocol evolution |
Authentication
Setup / approval
Rate limits
Response schema
Pricing
Data coverage
Maintenance
How much does Bluesky scraping cost?
SocialCrawl uses credit-based pricing: you pay per API call, and most Bluesky endpoints cost just a few credits. Every account starts with 100 free credits — no subscriptions, no compute units, no credit card required.
See pricingIs Bluesky scraping legal?
SocialCrawl returns publicly available Bluesky data. Courts have generally upheld scraping public data — most notably in hiQ v. LinkedIn — but compliance depends on your use case and jurisdiction. You are responsible for following applicable laws and platform terms.
Common Bluesky scraping terms
The phrases developers search for when they need Bluesky data, and what each one means with SocialCrawl.
- Bluesky scraper API
- A Bluesky scraper API returns Bluesky data as structured JSON without you running any scraping infrastructure. SocialCrawl handles the proxies, parsing, and format changes, so you call an endpoint and get clean fields back. Pricing starts at 1 credits per call.
- Bluesky data API
- A Bluesky data API is a programmatic way to read public Bluesky data on demand. SocialCrawl exposes 3 Bluesky endpoints behind one x-api-key, all sharing the same unified schema, so your integration never has to change per platform.
- scrape Bluesky
- To scrape Bluesky is to extract its public data programmatically instead of by hand. With SocialCrawl you scrape Bluesky by sending a single authenticated request, and the response is normalised into the same JSON shape used across every platform.
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