Search Bluesky with one API call

Read Bluesky — full-text post search — without building or maintaining a scraper. AT Protocol, the official interface. Same response shape as every other platform here, so one parser handles all of them. 2 credits a call.

The call

curl -H "x-api-key: $SS_KEY" \
  "https://api.socialsearchapi.com/v1/bluesky/search?query=llm+agents"

This call costs 2 credits once you are on credits. A new account gets 5 free calls on any platform — verify an email and this command runs as-is.

What comes back

A real response from this endpoint, captured on 2026-07-25 and trimmed to one item:

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "bluesky",
  "data": {
    "total": 3,
    "items": [
      {
        "platform": "bluesky",
        "type": "post",
        "text": "譲治さんはここ数年ず―――――――っと まともに社会問題に対しての意見を投稿してる 生成AI問題にも初期からずっと問題視してて一貫してる エーアイ(LLM等)推進派からﾊﾝｴｰｱｲレッテル貼られてネットリンチに遭ったのも見てた 最悪だ...",
        "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/sisidosido.bsky.social/post/3mrh5rb3r2c2d",
        "author": "sisidosido.bsky.social",
        "author_name": "sisidosidoo_bsky",
        "created_at": "2026-07-25T05:40:48Z",
        "metrics": {
          "comments": 0,
          "likes": 0,
          "reposts": 0
        },
        "extra": {
          "created_at_raw": "2026-07-25T05:40:48.854Z"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "credits_used": 2
}

Items from Bluesky carry: author, author_name, created_at, extra, metrics, platform, text, type, url.

Why not just scrape it yourself

Bluesky's protocol is genuinely open, but search requires an authenticated session, and session creation has sharp edges — the handle must be sent without its leading @ or the server reads it as an email and rejects it.

• Cost here: 2 credits a call, $0.006 at list.
• Last verified 2026-07-25: 1,048ms for this call.
• Coverage: Public posts. Search covers the AppView index, not every relay.

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