Get a Bluesky user’s posts

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Retrieve a page of public posts, replies and reposts, newest first, with original records, media metadata and engagement counts. Provide exactly one of handle or user_id, and pass cursor to retrieve the next page.

GET/v1/bluesky/user/postsx-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

handlestringquery

One Bluesky handle; mutually exclusive with user_id.

min 3 chars · max 253 chars

Exampleexample.test

user_idstringquery

One did:plc or did:web account identifier, mutually exclusive with handle.

max 2048 chars

cursorstringquery

Opaque next-page cursor. Absence means the source provided no continuation; do not invent a cursor.

min 1 chars · max 2048 chars

filterenumquery

Optional: posts_with_replies (default), posts_no_replies, posts_with_media, posts_with_video or posts_and_author_threads.

one of: posts_with_replies, posts_no_replies, posts_with_media, posts_with_video, posts_and_author_threads

limitstringquery

Optional posts per page, 1 to 100; default 30.

sincenumber | stringquery

Earliest publication time to include, ISO 8601 or Unix seconds.

untilnumber | stringquery

Publication time to stop before, ISO 8601 or Unix seconds; later than since.

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 was returned without known omissions. order is newest_first by feed time; window echoes since/until.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

coverage.orderenum

Always included.

one of: newest_first, oldest_first, ranked, relevance, source_order

Optional.

coverage.window.sincestringoptional

Optional.

coverage.window.untilstringoptional

Optional.

Post views newest first: uri, cid, author, record text and facets, embeds, counts, labels and timestamps. A repost carries reason with the reposter and repost time (indexedAt).

up to 100 items

feed.uristring

Always included.

feed.cidstring

Always included.

min 1 chars

Always included.

feed.author.didstring

Always included.

max 2048 chars

feed.author.handlestring

Always included.

min 1 chars

Always included.

feed.record.$typestring

Always included.

feed.record.textstring

Always included.

feed.record.createdAtstring

Always included.

feed.replyCountinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

feed.repostCountinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

feed.likeCountinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

feed.quoteCountinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

feed.indexedAtstring

Always included.

cursorstringoptional

Opaque next-page cursor. Absence means the source provided no continuation; do not invent a cursor.

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/user/posts?handle=example.test" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/bluesky/user/posts?handle=example.test",
  {
    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/user/posts?handle=example.test",
  {
    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/user/posts",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "handle": "example.test"
    },
    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/user/posts?handle=example.test", 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/user/posts?handle=example.test"))
            .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",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": [],
    "order": "newest_first"
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 1500,
    "durationMs": 300
  },
  "feed": [
    {
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "cursor": "opaque-next-page"
}

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."
  }
}