How to Scrape Bluesky Posts, Hashtags and Followers

Bluesky has grown into a real place for tech, journalism, science and politics conversations, and unlike some other networks, it has an open, documented public API: the AT Protocol. That makes it one of the friendliest platforms for social listening, research and audience analysis.

This tutorial covers what the public API offers, then uses the Bluesky Scraper to export posts, profiles and followers to a spreadsheet without code, plus a short Python example.

What you can get from the public API

Bluesky's AppView ( public.api.bsky.app ) serves, without login:

Post search by keyword, hashtag, phrase or author

Author feeds : everything a user posted

Profiles : display name, bio, follower/following/post counts

Followers and follows lists

User search by name or bio

The actor wraps all of these, handles cursor pagination and flattens the nested records into rows with like, repost, reply and quote counts, hashtags, links and image URLs.

Step 1: Search a…