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Search public Threads posts by keyword, with ranked or recent ordering, inclusive UTC date filters and an optional compact projection.

GET/v1/threads/searchx-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

querystringrequiredquery

Keywords, 1–200 characters.

min 1 chars · max 200 chars

Exampleexample query

recentenumquery

true for the recent ranking; false (default) for Threads' top ranking.

one of: true, false

start_datestringquery

Optional.

end_datestringquery

Optional.

trimenumquery

true keeps the compact projection: id, pk, caption, code, like_count, taken_at, user (feed and search posts add url).

one of: true, false

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation identifier.

HTTP attempts for the operation (profile, posts, post, comments: one page load, plus one canonical redirect hop for short, threads.net or wrongly attributed permalinks; search: a bodiless session probe (HEAD on the login route) plus one document, with the login page read only when the probe sets no cookie; user search: the index and one profile page per account, five by default and ten at most; each with the shared transient retry), decoded bytes and duration.

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 threads.com URL of the profile, post or search (user search: the web index endpoint, query excluded).

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval time.

Complete means every source field of the operation was returned; warnings name every omission or cap (private_account, posts_first_page_only, posts_truncated, comments_first_page_only, comments_truncated, related_posts_truncated, parent_posts_truncated, search_results_truncated, date_filter_applied, users_truncated, users_omitted). Source is public_web, or web_index for user search.

coverage.sourceenum

Always included.

one of: public_web, web_index

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsenum[]

Always included.

querystring

Keywords, 1–200 characters.

min 1 chars

recentboolean

true for the recent ranking; false (default) for Threads' top ranking.

startDatestringnullable

Always included.

endDatestringnullable

Always included.

up to 50 items

posts.pkstring

Always included.

posts.idstring

Always included.

min 1 chars

Always included.

posts.user.pkstring

Always included.

posts.user.usernamestring

Always included.

min 1 chars

posts.codestring

Always included.

min 1 chars

posts.media_typeinteger

Always included.

posts.taken_atinteger

Always included.

posts.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

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
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, handles, dates or URLs.
401	`unauthorized`	Invalid API key.
404	`not_found`	Unknown handle (Threads redirects it to the login form) or unknown post code.
403	`restricted_page`	The page or document is restricted to signed-in viewers.
503	`search_unavailable`	User search was called without a configured search key.
502	`search_failed`	The web search index answered with an error, a non-JSON body or an unexpected shape.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Threads or the web index rate limited the request.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Threads answered the request with a challenge page instead of a document (status challenged).
502	`operation_unavailable`	Threads no longer serves the pinned document for this operation.
502	`unsafe_redirect`	Threads redirected the request somewhere other than the login form or the canonical permalink.
502	`unsupported_page`	The page or GraphQL result is missing, mismatched or structurally unsupported.
502	`response_too_large`	The decoded responses exceeded 8 MiB.
502	`payload_too_complex`	The response exceeded the JSON depth or node limits.
502	`request_limit`	The upstream request budget was exhausted.
502	`upstream_error`	Network failure or HTTP 5xx after the single retry.
503	`busy`	All retrieval slots are busy.
504	`timeout`	The 45-second deadline elapsed.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/threads/search?query=example+query" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/threads/search?query=example+query",
  {
    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/threads/search?query=example+query",
  {
    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(`Threads request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/threads/search",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "query": "example query"
    },
    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/threads/search?query=example+query", 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/threads/search?query=example+query"))
            .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,
  "query": "example query",
  "recent": false,
  "startDate": null,
  "endDate": null,
  "posts": [
    {
      "id": "3000000000000000030_1234567893",
      "logging_info_token": null,
      "pk": "3000000000000000030",
      "user": {
        "pk": "1234567893",
        "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/example_s150x150.jpg",
        "friendship_status": null,
        "username": "searcher_example",
        "id": "1234567893",
        "interop_messaging_user_fbid": "17800000000000000",
        "is_meta_ai_bot": false,
        "full_name": "Searcher Example",
        "transparency_label": null,
        "transparency_product": null,
        "transparency_product_enabled": false,
        "is_verified": true,
        "has_onboarded_to_text_post_app": true,
        "text_post_app_is_private": false
      },
      "text_post_app_info": {
        "show_header_follow": false,
        "id": "XDTTextPostAppMediaInfo:17900000000000001",
        "is_ghost_post": false,
        "self_thread_info": null,
        "is_spoiler_media": false,
        "tappable_elements": [],
        "is_markup": false,
        "ghost_post_exp_time_ms": null,
        "ghost_post_approximate_like_count_str": null,
        "ghost_post_reply_type": null,
        "ghost_post_approximate_reply_count_str": null,
        "direct_reply_count": 12,
        "repost_count": 3,
        "quote_count": 1,
        "reshare_count": 4,
        "attachment_tombstone_info": null,
        "custom_feed_preview_info": null,
        "platform_podcast_episode_info": null,
        "platform_podcast_info": null,
        "link_preview_attachment": null,
        "link_preview_response": null,
        "linked_inline_media": null,
        "snippet_attachment_info": null,
        "game_score_share_info": null,
        "public_view_count_card_attachment_info": null,
        "community_emoji_update_attachment_info": null,
        "special_effects_enabled_str": "",
        "algo_tweaks_info": null,
        "text_fragments": {
          "fragments": [
            {
              "fragment_type": "plaintext",
              "link_fragment": null,
              "mention_fragment": null,
              "plaintext": "An example post matching the query",
              "inline_sticker_fragment": null,
              "linkified_web_url": null,
              "linkified_in_app_url": null,
              "styling_info": null
            }
          ]
        },
        "is_reply": false,
        "can_reply": false,
        "gen_ai_reply_bot_on_media_deny_reason": "",
        "share_info": {
          "quoted_attachment_author_attribution_allowed": true,
          "quoted_attachment_post_unavailable": false,
          "quoted_attachment_post": null,
          "quoted_post": null,
          "reposted_post": null
        },
        "reply_to_author": null,
        "reply_approval_info": {
          "pending_reply_status": null,
          "pending_reply_count": null,
          "ignored_reply_count": null
        },
        "hush_info": null,
        "system_status_message": null,
        "root_post_author": null,
        "reply_control": "everyone",
        "private_reply_partner": null,
        "self_thread_count": 0,
        "tag_header": null,
        "author_context_pill": null,
        "is_liked_by_root_author": false,
        "pinned_post_info": {
          "is_pinned_to_parent_post": false,
          "is_pinned_to_profile": false
        },
        "related_trends_info": null,
        "is_post_unavailable": false,
        "post_unavailable_reason": null,
        "post_tombstone_info": null
      },
      "is_paid_partnership": null,
      "audio": null,
      "caption": {
        "text": "An example post matching the query",
        "has_translation": null,
        "pk": "18000000000000001",
        "text_translation": null
      },
      "caption_is_edited": false,
      "transcription_data": null,
      "carousel_media": null,
      "code": "ExAmPlE0030",
      "image_versions2": {
        "candidates": []
      },
      "original_height": 612,
      "original_width": 612,
      "accessibility_caption": null,
      "usertags": null,
      "is_dash_eligible": null,
      "number_of_qualities": null,
      "video_dash_manifest": null,
      "video_versions": null,
      "has_audio": null,
      "media_type": 19,
      "caption_add_on": null,
      "text_app_music_info": null,
      "fbid": "18100000000000001",
      "like_count": 42,
      "has_viewer_saved": null,
      "giphy_media_info": null,
      "text_app_glimmer_post_info": null,
      "original_lang_for_translations": null,
      "detected_language": null,
      "media_overlay_info": null,
      "metaPlace": null,
      "meta_place": null,
      "gen_ai_detection_method": {
        "detection_method": "NONE"
      },
      "audience": null,
      "taken_at": 1789000000,
      "organic_tracking_token": "eyJ2ZXJzaW9uIjo1LCJwYXlsb2FkIjp7fX0=",
      "__token": null,
      "triage_comments": null,
      "canonical_url": null,
      "seo_ocr_for_related_post": null,
      "seo_transcript_for_related_post": null,
      "like_and_view_counts_disabled": false,
      "url": "https://www.threads.com/@searcher_example/post/ExAmPlE0030"
    }
  ],
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "0b7f1e5c-3c2a-4a4e-9c9b-1f3d2c0a8e21",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.threads.com/search?q=example%20query",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-13T10:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_web",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 2,
    "responseBytes": 634172,
    "durationMs": 1200
  }
}

Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, handles, dates or URLs.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_web",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": [
      "private_account"
    ]
  },
  "query": "string",
  "recent": true,
  "startDate": "string",
  "endDate": "string",
  "posts": [
    {
      "id": "string",
      "pk": "string",
      "caption": {},
      "code": "string",
      "like_count": 0,
      "taken_at": 0,
      "user": {
        "pk": "string",
        "username": "string"
      },
      "url": "https://example.com/"
    }
  ]
}