Get Bluesky profiles in a batch

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Retrieve public profiles for up to 25 handles or DIDs in one request, with full profile metadata and a result for each actor in input order.

POST/v1/bluesky/profiles/batchx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

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

Content-Typestringrequiredheader

Must be application/json.

Request body

actorsstring[]requiredbody

Array of 1–25 unique domain-style handles or did:plc/did:web account identifiers. Handles are compared case-insensitively.

up to 25 items

Example["example.test","second.test"]

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 the batch contains usable records.

statusenum

success or partial for usable batches; failed or challenged for failures.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Public Bluesky batch API endpoint.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval time.

Batch completeness and named omission warnings.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

resultsobject[]

One result per requested identifier, in the same order.

up to 25 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 -X POST "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/bluesky/profiles/batch" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"actors":["example.test","second.test"]}'

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/bluesky/profiles/batch",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      "actors": [
        "example.test",
        "second.test"
      ]
    })
  }
);

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/profiles/batch",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!,
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      "actors": [
        "example.test",
        "second.test"
      ]
    })
  }
);

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.post(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/bluesky/profiles/batch",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={
        "actors": [
            "example.test",
            "second.test"
        ]
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

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

func main() {
	body := strings.NewReader(`{"actors":["example.test","second.test"]}`)
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/bluesky/profiles/batch", body)
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	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/profiles/batch"))
            .POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("{\"actors\":[\"example.test\",\"second.test\"]}"))
            .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
            .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://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.actor.getProfiles",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-21T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 1500,
    "durationMs": 300
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "actor": "example.test",
      "status": "success",
      "profile": {
        "did": "did:plc:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx",
        "handle": "example.test",
        "displayName": "Example",
        "description": "Synthetic profile",
        "followersCount": 12,
        "followsCount": 2,
        "postsCount": 3,
        "labels": []
      }
    },
    {
      "actor": "second.test",
      "status": "success",
      "profile": {
        "did": "did:plc:bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb",
        "handle": "second.test",
        "displayName": "Second example",
        "description": "Synthetic profile",
        "followersCount": 12,
        "followsCount": 2,
        "postsCount": 3,
        "labels": []
      }
    }
  ]
}

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."
  }
}