# Threads Scraper - Profiles & Posts (`swerve/threads-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Threads (Meta) profiles and recent posts in bulk. Get followers, bio, verified status, and posts with likes, replies, reposts and media by username. No login or API key. Pay per result.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/swerve/threads-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Swerve](https://apify.com/swerve) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Threads Scraper - Profiles & Posts

Scrape **Threads** (Meta's Threads, threads.com) in bulk. Paste a list of handles or profile URLs and get each account's followers, bio and verified status, plus its recent posts with likes, replies, reposts, quotes and media. **No login and no API key.**

### What you can do with it

- Pull follower counts, bios and verified status for a list of Threads creators
- Collect each account's recent posts with full engagement for monitoring and research
- Track how a competitor's or brand's Threads following and posts change over time
- Enrich a list of Threads handles with profile and post data for outreach

### Input

| Field | What it does | Example |
|-------|--------------|---------|
| **Threads usernames** | The accounts to scrape, as handles or profile URLs. | `zuck`, `@mosseri`, `https://www.threads.com/@natgeo` |
| **Include recent posts** | Also return each profile's recent posts (likes, replies, reposts, quotes, media). On by default. | on |

### Output

One profile row per username, plus one row per recent post (each row has a `type`).

Profile:

```json
{
  "type": "profile",
  "username": "zuck",
  "url": "https://www.threads.com/@zuck",
  "fullName": "Mark Zuckerberg",
  "userId": "63055343223",
  "biography": "Mostly superintelligence and MMA takes",
  "followerCount": 5673739,
  "isVerified": true,
  "profilePicUrl": "https://.../profile.jpg"
}
```

Post:

```json
{
  "type": "post",
  "postId": "3937491905269768921",
  "code": "DakyAavlKLZ",
  "url": "https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DakyAavlKLZ",
  "authorUsername": "zuck",
  "text": "Today we're releasing...",
  "takenAt": "2026-07-09T14:00:34.000Z",
  "likeCount": 2787,
  "replyCount": 639,
  "repostCount": 192,
  "quoteCount": 62,
  "imageUrl": "https://.../image.jpg",
  "hasMedia": true
}
```

### How it works

Every Threads profile page renders the account data and its recent posts as JSON. This actor reads that JSON directly over a residential connection (used by default for reliability), so it is fast and needs no login and no API key.

### Limits

- Public accounts only. Private accounts return their profile with limited data.
- Posts are the account's most recent posts. Threads keeps an account's full back-catalogue behind a signed endpoint, so this actor covers profiles plus recent posts, which are reliably available.
- Reply text is not returned (reply counts are).

### Pricing

Pay per result. You only pay for the profiles and posts you actually get.

# Actor input Schema

## `usernames` (type: `array`):

Paste Threads handles or profile URLs. Examples: zuck, @mosseri, https://www.threads.com/@natgeo . One profile row plus its recent posts are returned per username.

## `includePosts` (type: `boolean`):

Also return each profile's recent posts with likes, replies, reposts, quotes and media. On by default. Turn off for profile stats only.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Optional overall cap on rows (profiles plus posts). Leave blank for everything.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Threads is scraped through a residential proxy by default for reliability. Leave as is unless you have a reason to change it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "usernames": [
    "zuck",
    "mosseri"
  ],
  "includePosts": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "usernames": [
        "zuck",
        "mosseri"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("swerve/threads-scraper").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 = {
    "usernames": [
        "zuck",
        "mosseri",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("swerve/threads-scraper").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 '{
  "usernames": [
    "zuck",
    "mosseri"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call swerve/threads-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/AV0cmtgluHP3COAPi/builds/WZ0GJYnOMuOeEqlqV/openapi.json