Get a Bluesky post

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Retrieve a public Bluesky post, its author, media metadata, engagement counts and nested replies by HTTPS bsky.app URL with a handle or DID.

GET/v1/bluesky/postx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

urlstringrequiredquery

Required HTTPS bsky.app/profile/<handle-or-did>/post/<record-key> URL. No credentials, ports or encoded path segments. Tracking query and fragment are discarded.

max 4096 chars

Examplehttps://bsky.app/profile/example.test/post/3abcdefghijkl

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation identifier.

Source request count, decoded response bytes and elapsed milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable data is returned; inspect status and coverage for omissions.

statusenum

success, partial, failed, or challenged. HTTP 200 can be partial.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Canonical profile or post URL.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval time.

Complete means this bounded page or thread was returned without known omissions. It does not imply all historical posts or replies.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

Complete primary post view, including record, author, embeds and source engagement counts.

post.uristring

Always included.

post.cidstring

Always included.

min 1 chars

Always included.

post.author.didstring

Always included.

max 2048 chars

post.author.handlestring

Always included.

min 1 chars

Always included.

post.record.$typestring

Always included.

post.record.textstring

Always included.

post.record.createdAtstring

Always included.

post.replyCountinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

post.repostCountinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

post.likeCountinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

post.quoteCountinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

post.indexedAtstring

Always included.

repliesobject[]

Nested source thread nodes with post and replies. Missing, blocked or restricted reply posts are omitted with a coverage warning.

up to 100 items

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Usable data with restricted_posts_omitted, unavailable_replies_omitted, replies_incomplete, or reply_limit warnings. Batch omissions use unavailable_records or restricted_records_omitted warnings.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, ambiguous, unsafe or unsupported parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
403	`restricted_page`	The primary account or post is restricted or unavailable.
404	`not_found`	The source reports a missing profile or post.
404	`unavailable_records`	No requested batch record is available from the public source; no empty success is returned.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Source throttling; no automatic retry.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Source rejected the unauthenticated request.
502	`unsupported_page`	Malformed, missing or mismatched source data.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex`	Response exceeded byte or parsing limits.
502	`unsafe_redirect` `request_limit` `upstream_error`	Bounded source retrieval could not complete.
503	`busy`	All worker slots are occupied.
504	`timeout`	Total request deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/bluesky/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fexample.test%2Fpost%2F3abcdefghijkl" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/bluesky/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fexample.test%2Fpost%2F3abcdefghijkl",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/bluesky/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fexample.test%2Fpost%2F3abcdefghijkl",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Bluesky request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/bluesky/post",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/example.test/post/3abcdefghijkl"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/bluesky/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fexample.test%2Fpost%2F3abcdefghijkl", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/bluesky/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fexample.test%2Fpost%2F3abcdefghijkl"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://bsky.app/profile/example.test/post/3abcdefghijkl",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 1500,
    "durationMs": 300
  },
  "post": {
    "uri": "at://did:plc:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx/app.bsky.feed.post/3abcdefghijkl",
    "cid": "synthetic-cid",
    "author": {
      "did": "did:plc:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx",
      "handle": "example.test"
    },
    "record": {
      "$type": "app.bsky.feed.post",
      "text": "A synthetic public post.",
      "createdAt": "2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    "replyCount": 0,
    "repostCount": 1,
    "likeCount": 2,
    "quoteCount": 0,
    "indexedAt": "2026-09-10T00:00:01.000Z"
  },
  "replies": []
}

Missing, duplicate, ambiguous, unsafe or unsupported parameters.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}