Threads Scraper — Profiles, Posts, Replies & Creator Leads

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Meta Platforms, Inc. or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "Threads" is referenced only to describe the publicly available website this Actor collects data from.

Extract complete data from Threads (Meta) — the fastest-growing text social network (500M+ monthly actives). Pull full profiles (followers, bio, verified badge, links), posts with real engagement (likes, replies, reposts, quotes), all media (images, video, carousels), and post replies — then optionally turn any creator or brand into a ready-to-contact lead with emails, phone and social handles.

No login, no API key, no browser — fast JSON extraction straight from Threads' server-rendered data.

Why this Threads scraper?

Most Threads scrapers return a thin slice — a handle and a follower count. This actor ships the richest record in the category, with the engagement, media and contact fields that actually matter:

Data	Typical scrapers	This actor
Follower count, verified, private flag	partial	✅
Full bio + parsed links, @mentions, #hashtags	❌	✅
Bio links / external website	❌	✅
HD profile picture	❌	✅
Post text + likes	partial	✅
Replies, reposts and quote counts	❌	✅ all four
Images, video URL & carousels	❌	✅
Link cards & quoted/reposted posts	❌	✅
Parsed hashtags / mentions / links per post	❌	✅
Post replies (whole thread)	❌	✅
Creator contact emails / phone / socials	❌	✅ opt-in
Lead score (0–100)	❌	✅
Only-new monitor mode	❌	✅

Use cases

• Creator & brand lead generation — Threads creators and brands are active buyers and partners. Score them by audience size and turn each profile into a contactable lead (emails, phones, website, socials, leadScore) for influencer outreach, sponsorships and B2B sales.
• Social listening & brand monitoring — track what creators, competitors and brands post, with full engagement metrics, and run it on a schedule to catch only new posts.
• Engagement & sentiment analysis — pull a thread with all its replies for conversation mining, sentiment, and community research.
• Influencer discovery & vetting — verify follower counts, verified status, posting cadence and engagement before partnering.
• Content & trend research — collect posts by hashtag/mention from creators you track and analyze what performs.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify — the free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open the Threads Scraper, pick a mode, and enter usernames or paste Threads URLs.
3. Click Start and watch results stream into the dataset.
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS — or pull results via the Apify API.

Modes

• Profiles — one full profile per username/URL (followers, bio, verified, links, HD picture), with recent posts inline and optional contact-lead enrichment.
• User posts — a profile's recent posts as individual records. Pull from the threads, replies and/or media tabs for more depth.
• Post — a single post/thread by URL, plus its replies (each as its own record).

Input

{
    "mode": "profiles",
    "usernames": ["zuck", "mosseri", "nike"],
    "includePosts": true,
    "postTabs": ["threads"],
    "maxPostsPerProfile": 20,
    "enrichLeads": true,
    "leadsOnly": false
}

Single-post example:

{
    "mode": "post",
    "postUrls": ["https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DZpPDXbCeTt"],
    "includeReplies": true,
    "maxRepliesPerPost": 50
}

• usernames — @handle, handle, or a profile URL (https://www.threads.com/@zuck). Used in Profiles and User posts modes.
• includePosts (default true) — attach recent posts to each profile record.
• postTabs (default ["threads"]) — which profile tabs to collect posts from: threads (own posts), replies, media. Combine for more depth.
• maxPostsPerProfile — cap recent posts per profile.
• enrichLeads (default false) — parse emails/phone from the bio, classify linked socials, crawl the linked website (home + contact/about, max 3 pages) for contacts, and compute a 0–100 leadScore.
• leadsOnly (default false) — only output profiles that yielded at least one contact email.
• postUrls — Threads post URLs or codes for Post mode.
• includeReplies / maxRepliesPerPost — control reply collection in Post mode.
• startUrls — paste any mix of profile and post URLs; each is auto-routed.
• monitorMode / monitorStoreName — output only records not seen on previous runs.
• maxResults — overall cap (0 = no limit).

Output

Profile record (recordType: "profile", or "profileLead" when enriched):

{
    "recordType": "profileLead",
    "username": "examplecreator",
    "userId": "1234567890",
    "fullName": "Example Creator",
    "biography": "Designer & founder. Bookings: hello@example.com",
    "bioLinks": [{ "url": "https://example.com", "title": null }],
    "externalUrl": "https://example.com",
    "followerCount": 184203,
    "isVerified": true,
    "isPrivate": false,
    "profilePicUrl": "https://...150x150.jpg",
    "hdProfilePicUrl": "https://...640x640.jpg",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.threads.com/@examplecreator",
    "postsCount": 4,
    "recentPosts": [{ "code": "DZ...", "text": "…", "likeCount": 1203, "replyCount": 88, "mediaType": "image" }],
    "emails": ["hello@example.com"],
    "phones": ["+1 415 555 0199"],
    "website": "https://example.com",
    "socials": { "instagram": "https://instagram.com/examplecreator", "youtube": "https://youtube.com/@examplecreator" },
    "leadScore": 88,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-18T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Post record (recordType: "post", replies use "reply"):

{
    "recordType": "post",
    "postId": "3920731152608519405",
    "code": "DZpPDXbCeTt",
    "url": "https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DZpPDXbCeTt",
    "username": "zuck",
    "authorFullName": "Mark Zuckerberg",
    "authorIsVerified": true,
    "text": "500M monthly actives on Threads in less than 3 years…",
    "likeCount": 17183,
    "replyCount": 4608,
    "repostCount": 534,
    "quoteCount": 259,
    "mediaType": "image",
    "images": ["https://...jpg"],
    "videoUrl": null,
    "hashtags": [],
    "mentions": [],
    "links": [],
    "language": "en",
    "takenAt": "2026-06-16T10:59:56.000Z",
    "takenAtTimestamp": 1781607596,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-18T12:00:00.000Z"
}

How much does it cost to scrape Threads?

This Actor uses Apify's pay-per-event pricing: you are charged only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The events it can charge are:

• Profile - Full Threads profile: name, bio (links/mentions/hashtags), followers, verified, private flag, profile & HD picture, podcast info – plus recent posts inline.
• Profile lead (enriched) - A profile turned into a contactable lead: emails & phone from bio + crawled website, classified socials, business site, and 0–100 lead score.
• Post - One post/thread: full text, like/reply/repost/quote counts, all media, link & quoted-post attachments, language, hashtags/mentions, timestamp, author.
• Reply - One reply within a thread: text, engagement, media, author and the root post it belongs to.

The current price of each event is shown on the Pricing tab of this page. Set a maximum total charge on the run if you want a hard cap on spend, and use the input limits to control how much the Actor fetches.

Automate & schedule

Run this actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API — start runs, fetch datasets and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python — official SDKs.
• Schedules — run it hourly/daily to monitor tracked creators for new posts; combine with Monitor mode for new-only output.
• Webhooks — trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/threads-scraper').call({
    mode: 'profiles',
    usernames: ['zuck', 'mosseri'],
    includePosts: true,
    enrichLeads: true,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} Threads records`);

Monitor mode (only new data)

Turn on Monitor mode and the actor remembers what it has already returned (in a named key-value store) and outputs only new posts or profiles on the next run — perfect for new-post alerts on the creators you track. It is independent of Apify Schedules, so you can pair them: schedule the run, get only the deltas. Use different monitorStoreName values to track different watchlists separately.

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to 5,000+ apps — no code required:

• Make — multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier — push new creator leads straight into your CRM.
• Slack — get notified when a monitored creator posts.
• Google Drive / Sheets — auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte — pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub — trigger runs from commits or releases.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. Call this actor from Claude, ChatGPT or any agent framework through the Apify MCP server — ask your assistant to "get the Threads profile and recent posts for @nike and list the contact details" and let it run this scraper for you.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready — AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server — no account, no API key.
• Skyfire — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

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• Twitch Scraper — channels, live streams, clips & streamer leads.
• Kick Scraper — creators, channels, streams & clips from Kick.
• Spotify Scraper — artists, monthly listeners, tracks, playlists & podcasts.
• SoundCloud Scraper — tracks, artists & playlists.
• YouTube Scraper — videos, channels & stats.
• Patreon Scraper — creators, membership tiers & earnings estimates.
• Substack Scraper — newsletters, posts & author leads.
• Linktree Scraper — bio links, emails & creator leads.
• Website Contact Scraper — emails, phones & socials from any domain list.

Tips

• Datacenter proxy is fine — Threads renders public profiles on Apify's datacenter proxy (fast & cheap). Switch to residential only if your region is blocked.
• More posts per profile: add replies and media to postTabs to widen the recent-post window.
• Lead enrichment only crawls the creator's own linked website — emails come from there or the bio, never invented.
• Recurring monitoring: combine Schedules with Monitor mode to get only new posts.

FAQ

Do I need a Threads or Instagram login? No. This actor reads the same public, server-rendered data a logged-out visitor sees — no login, cookies or API key.

Can I scrape a specific post and its replies? Yes. Use Post mode with the post URL (/@user/post/CODE or /t/CODE); set includeReplies to also collect the replies.

Why did a profile return no data? A small number of Threads profiles are login-gated by their owner (not viewable on the web logged-out), private, or simply don't exist on Threads — the actor logs a clear reason and skips them. Public profiles return full data.

How many recent posts do I get per profile? Threads server-renders the most recent posts per tab. Add replies and media tabs (and raise maxPostsPerProfile) to widen the window.

Where do the emails come from? Never invented — from the public bio and the creator's own linked website (home + contact/about). Tracking/placeholder addresses are filtered out.

Can I export to Google Sheets, CSV or Excel? Yes — one click in the dataset view, or automatically on every run via the Google Drive integration.

Is scraping Threads legal? This actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using it in compliance with applicable laws (GDPR/CCPA for personal data) and Threads' terms.

Data & lawful use

This Actor reads only what Threads publishes to logged-out visitors: it does not log in, use cookies or session tokens, create accounts, or reach anything behind a sign-in. Names, handles, bios and engagement figures are public, but they relate to identifiable people, so treat the output as personal data. If you are in the EU or UK you are the data controller for what you do with it: have a lawful basis (usually legitimate interest for research, marketing analytics or B2B prospecting), honour access and deletion requests, and do not use the output for spam or unsolicited messaging.

Under Apify's Standard Actor Contract, which governs your use of this Actor, you are the controller of any personal data in your input and output and scrapesage acts only as your processor: that data is processed solely to run your job, written only to your own Apify storage, never used for any other purpose and never shared onward. If you need help with a data-subject request that involves this Actor's output, open an issue on the Issues tab.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Meta Platforms, Inc. or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

"Threads" and any related marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the publicly accessible website from which this Actor collects data. This Actor is not an official Threads product, is not authorised or certified by Meta Platforms, Inc., and does not distribute Threads software. It collects only publicly available information; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the terms of the source website.

Need help?

Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome — this actor is actively maintained.