Bluesky Starter Pack Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

Bluesky Starter Packs are curated community lists that drove 43% of all follows during Bluesky's 2024 growth surge (EurekAlert, 2024). This Bluesky starter pack scraper reaches the AT Protocol AppView API (https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/) to export every member of any starter pack — by URI or by creator handle. We do the heavy lifting against three chained endpoints; you get one clean denormalized dataset.

Target endpoints:

What we handle for you

• Two collection modes — scrape a single pack by URI/URL, or bulk-export every pack owned by a creator handle up to 100 packs per run.
• Denormalized output — every row carries pack metadata and the member profile in one flat record. No joins needed when you drop it into a spreadsheet or CRM.
• Bluesky web URLs accepted — paste https://bsky.app/starter-pack/handle/rkey directly; we normalize it to AT URI form.
• Follower counts on every row — member_followers_count, member_following_count, and member_posts_count are denormalized onto each member row.
• Configurable member cap — 1–5,000 members per pack; keep test runs cheap.
• PPE pricing — you pay only for rows emitted, not for idle compute.

Use cases

• B2B growth marketing — identify niche audiences (e.g. "AI researchers on Bluesky") and build targeted outreach lists from curated community packs.
• Bluesky audience research — map which accounts are recommended by influential pack curators in your industry before you invest in the platform.
• Bluesky followers list export — enumerate the full member graph of a peer group and compare follower counts, post activity, and engagement ratios.
• Academic research — map community topology and influencer networks; starter packs are the AT Protocol's primary community-formation mechanism.
• Competitive intelligence — track which handles appear across multiple packs in your niche.
• Journalism and OSINT — document community formation around a topic or event.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "starterPackUri": "at://did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l2stmy4ote2b",
  "maxPacks": 10,
  "maxMembersPerPack": 500,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

pack_uripack_namepack_descriptionpack_creator_handlemember_didmember_handlemember_display_namemember_followers_countmember_following_countmember_posts_countmember_indexed_atscraped_at

{
  "pack_uri": "at://did:plc:abc123/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/xyz789",
  "pack_name": "AI Researchers on Bluesky",
  "pack_description": "Curated list of ML/AI researchers who migrated from Twitter.",
  "pack_creator_handle": "alice.bsky.social",
  "member_did": "did:plc:def456",
  "member_handle": "bob.bsky.social",
  "member_display_name": "Bob Smith",
  "member_followers_count": 1204,
  "member_following_count": 380,
  "member_posts_count": 841,
  "member_indexed_at": "2024-11-14T09:22:01.000Z",
  "scraped_at": "2026-05-16T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.