Threads Scraper Lite

An Apify Actor for collecting public data from Threads (Instagram Threads). It retrieves user profiles, user posts, and search results without requiring login. Designed for reliability and scale within the Apify platform.

Key Features

The scraper operates in three distinct modules, which you can enable independently:

• Users Info: Fetches profile details (including bio and links) for a specific username.
• User Posts: Retrieves the posts/threads for a given user ID (pk).
• Search: Finds public profiles by username search term.

Common technical features include resilient request handling with retries, buffered writes to the Apify dataset for performance, and modular input design.

How to Use

1. Configure your Actor run with an input JSON object.
2. Start the Actor. Results are automatically pushed to the default Apify dataset associated with the run.

Input Configuration

Configure the Actor using the following input parameters in your run's JSON.

Example Inputs

Fetch a user's profile and their posts in one run:

{
  "users_enabled": true,
  "fetch_info": true,
  "info_username": "mrbeast",
  "fetch_posts": true,
  "posts_user_id": "63634640553"
}

Search for profiles by username:

{
  "search_enabled": true,
  "search_username": "mrbeast"
}

Best Practice: To get a user's posts, you typically need their user_id (pk). First, run the Actor with fetch_info: true to get this ID from the profile data. Then, use that ID as the posts_user_id in a subsequent run (or in the same run with both fetch_info and fetch_posts enabled).

Output

The Actor outputs raw API responses to the dataset, followed by a summary item.

Example User Info Output:

{
  "status": "Successful",
  "message": "Data retrieved successfully",
  "data": { /* user profile object */ }
}

Example User Posts Output:

{
  "status": "Successful",
  "message": "Data retrieved successfully",
  "data": [ /* array of post objects */ ]
}

Example Search Output:

{
  "status": "Successful",
  "message": "Data retrieved successfully",
  "data": [ /* array of profile objects */ ]
}

Final Summary Item:

{
  "success": true,
  "pages_fetched": 3,
  "total_pushed": 421,
  "fetched_at": "2025-01-01T12:34:56.000Z",
  "resultsMeta": {
    "groups_processed": ["users", "search"]
  }
}