Bluesky Post API
Get a single Bluesky post by URL - text, author handle, like, reply, and repost counts as clean JSON.
$1.10/1k req, pay per request, no subscription.
{"text": "Shipped dark mode this morning after two years of people asking. Turns out the hard part was never the CSS, it was finding the three components that hardcoded white backgrounds.","authorHandle": "mara.bsky.social","likes": 3842,"replies": 96,"reposts": 214,"createdUtc": 1758902040,"id": "3l7qkzr2xyk2p","authorName": "Mara Lindqvist",... 1 more field}
Pricing and providers
Bluesky Post API pricing: one API, 3 interchangeable providers
The cheapest provider serves first. If it fails, the next one takes over in the same call.
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Get Bluesky post in one request
This sample shows 11 of 12 fields. See every field
{
"found": true,
"data": {
"text": "Shipped dark mode this morning after two years of people asking. Turns out the hard part was never the CSS, it was finding the three components that hardcoded white backgrounds.",
"authorHandle": "mara.bsky.social",
"likes": 3842,
"replies": 96,
"reposts": 214,
"createdUtc": 1758902040,
"id": "3l7qkzr2xyk2p",
"authorName": "Mara Lindqvist",
"authorImage": "https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:z9k2mfx8a1/bafyavatar1@jpeg"
}
}Full parameter and response reference - every field, type, and example for this endpoint.
Reference
One request, one response shape.
Every field you send and every field you get back, each with a real example.
Last verified 2026-10-31 · uptime and latency measured over 30d
Request body
JSON, posted to this endpoint.
- urlstring
https://bsky.app/profile/mara.bsky.social/post/3l7qkzr2xyk2p
Bluesky post URL, e.g. "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l6oveex3ii2l".
Response
JSON, one example value per field.
The post record, or null when nothing was found.
- authorHandlestring
mara.bsky.social
Handle of the account that authored the post. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- authorImagestring
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:z9k2mfx8a1/bafyavatar1@jpeg
Avatar URL of the account that posted.
- authorNamestring
Mara Lindqvist
Display name of the account that posted.
- createdUtcnumber
1758902040
UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- idstring
3l7qkzr2xyk2p
Bluesky record key of the post.
- likesinteger
3842
Number of likes on the post.
- repliesinteger
96
Number of replies to the post.
- repostsinteger
214
Number of reposts of the post.
- textstring
Shipped dark mode this morning after two years of people asking. Turns out the hard part was never the CSS, it was finding the three components that hardcoded white backgrounds.
The post's text content. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- foundboolean
true
True when the post was found; false when the lookup returned nothing.
- reason"not_found"
Present only when `found` is false, and says why there is no result. `not_found`: the source states the target does not exist, or returned nothing for it. A `found: false` answer is a successful call, not an error, and `costUsd` is what it actually cost.
FAQ
About the Bluesky Post API
The AnyAPI Bluesky Post API returns Bluesky post data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/bluesky.post. Get a single Bluesky post by URL - text, author handle, like, reply, and repost counts as clean JSON. AnyAPI routes each request across 3 sources and falls back automatically when one fails. It costs from $1.10 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Bluesky post calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 1.0 seconds across 11 measured calls.
