# Bluesky Influencer & Audience Intelligence (`straightforward_hydra/bluesky-influencer-intelligence`) Actor

Discover & rank top Bluesky accounts in any niche, enrich profiles, scrape posts & engagement, export followers. No key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/straightforward\_hydra/bluesky-influencer-intelligence.md
- **Developed by:** [Dev D](https://apify.com/straightforward_hydra) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Automation, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 items

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Bluesky Influencer & Audience Intelligence 🦋

**Discover and rank the top Bluesky accounts in any niche, enrich profiles, scrape posts & engagement, and export followers — from Bluesky's public API. No API key, no proxy.**

Bluesky is the fastest-growing open social network — and it's still early. This actor is your **early-mover intelligence** for it:

- 🔥 **Discover niche influencers** — give it a topic (`crypto`, `AI`, `climate`, `journalism`) and get a **ranked list of the top accounts** by followers, each with an **engagement score** (avg likes/reposts/replies).
- 👤 **Profile enrichment** — turn a list of handles into full profiles (followers, following, post count, bio).
- 📝 **Posts & engagement** — an account's recent posts with like/repost/reply/quote counts.
- 👥 **Follower export** — export any account's followers for audience analysis or outreach.

Perfect for **influencer marketing, brand & competitor monitoring, audience research, PR and social analytics** — on the platform before it's saturated.

> Uses Bluesky's public **AT Protocol** AppView — no key, no login, pure JSON. Very low maintenance.

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### Modes

- 🔥 **Discover** — niche keyword → ranked top accounts (+ optional engagement).
- 👤 **Profiles** — handles → enriched profiles.
- 📝 **Posts** — handles → recent posts with engagement.
- 👥 **Followers** — handle → follower export.

### Features

- ✅ **No API key, no proxy** — official public AT Protocol API.
- ✅ **Follower + engagement ranking** — find who's big *and* who's actually engaging.
- ✅ **Early-mover** — analytics for a platform most tools don't cover yet.
- ✅ **Clean JSON** — no HTML scraping, low maintenance.

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### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| **Mode** | discover / profiles / posts / followers. |
| **Query** | Niche keyword (discover mode). |
| **Handles** | Handles for profiles / posts / followers modes. |
| **Include engagement** | Sample recent posts to compute avg likes/reposts + score. |
| **Engagement sample size** | Posts sampled for engagement. |
| **Max results** | discover: top N accounts; posts/followers: max per handle. |

#### Example — top AI accounts, ranked, with engagement

```json
{
  "mode": "discover",
  "query": "AI",
  "includeEngagement": true,
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

#### Example — export an account's followers

```json
{
  "mode": "followers",
  "handles": ["bsky.app"],
  "maxResults": 5000
}
```

#### Example — a brand's posts & engagement

```json
{
  "mode": "posts",
  "handles": ["nbcnews.com"],
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

### Output (discover)

```json
{
  "rank": 1,
  "handle": "cryptosniper.bsky.social",
  "display_name": "Crypto Sniper",
  "followers_count": 21537,
  "follows_count": 300,
  "posts_count": 4793,
  "description": "…",
  "matched_query": "crypto",
  "avg_likes": 3270.1,
  "avg_reposts": 900.2,
  "avg_replies": 148.4,
  "engagement_score": 4318.7,
  "sampled_posts": 15,
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/cryptosniper.bsky.social"
}
```

Posts mode returns post text + like/repost/reply/quote counts; followers mode returns handle/DID/name per follower.

### Run it on a schedule

Re-run discovery weekly to watch a niche's leaderboard shift, or track an account's follower growth and engagement over time — pipe to a sheet, database or webhook.

### Notes & limitations

- Uses the **public** AppView — full-text post search requires auth, so discovery is by **account** (the higher-value angle). Everything here works with no key.
- Ranking is over the accounts surfaced by Bluesky's actor search for your keyword, enriched with real follower counts.
- Data source: Bluesky / AT Protocol.

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#### Keywords

Bluesky, AT Protocol, influencer marketing, social media, influencer discovery, follower export, engagement, social analytics, audience research, brand monitoring, creator analytics, social listening, bsky, emerging social media, profile scraper, followers scraper, social intelligence, Twitter alternative.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

discover = find & rank top accounts in a niche; profiles = enrich handles; posts = an account's posts + engagement; followers = export followers.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Topic/niche to find top accounts for, e.g. "crypto", "AI", "climate", "journalism".

## `handles` (type: `array`):

Bluesky handles, e.g. \["bsky.app", "nbcnews.com"]. The @ is optional.

## `includeEngagement` (type: `boolean`):

For discover/profiles: sample recent posts to compute average likes/reposts/replies and an engagement score. Adds one call per account.

## `engagementSampleSize` (type: `integer`):

How many recent posts to sample when computing engagement.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

discover: number of top accounts to return. posts/followers: max per handle.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "discover",
  "query": "AI",
  "includeEngagement": false,
  "engagementSampleSize": 20,
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "AI"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("straightforward_hydra/bluesky-influencer-intelligence").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "query": "AI" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("straightforward_hydra/bluesky-influencer-intelligence").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "AI"
}' |
apify call straightforward_hydra/bluesky-influencer-intelligence --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=straightforward_hydra/bluesky-influencer-intelligence",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/iZ5Pal99gsgsbx7CM/builds/6zE8NaOkI7h401Ctc/openapi.json