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Try the Bluesky search actors API

Returns Bluesky accounts matching a query against display name, handle, and profile description.

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 25 actors; 6 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /bluesky/search-actors?limit=25&q=news
Fields with a value in every checked item: did, handle, display_name, avatar_url, description, created_at

Sample value profiles: created_at: 2023-04-29 to 2024-11-22; avatar_url: cdn.bsky.app; description: median 136 characters.

Request: GET /bluesky/search-actors
Cost: 2 credits/request
Auth: apiKey
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 100%, median 0.94 s
Monitored request: GET /bluesky/search-actors?limit=5&q=news

Bluesky search actors API documentation Bluesky platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/bluesky/search-actors?q=news' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
q	string	Yes	news	Search text
limit	integer	No		Page size, 1-100
cursor	string	No		Pagination cursor from a previous response's cursor field

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "actors": [
      {
        "did": "did:plc:wmho6q2uiyktkam3jsvrms3s",
        "handle": "nbcnews.com",
        "display_name": "NBC News",
        "description": "News updates from around the globe, all day, every day."
      }
    ],
    "cursor": "2"
  }
}

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A Bluesky account's posts A Bluesky account's followers Accounts a Bluesky account follows List actors who liked a Bluesky post List quotes of a Bluesky post List actors who reposted a Bluesky post A Bluesky post and its reply tree Look up Bluesky posts in a batch A Bluesky account's full public profile Bluesky's current trending topics

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GETapiKey2 credits/requestbluesky.searchActorsResponseDocBluesky

GET /bluesky/search-actors

Search Bluesky accounts

Returns Bluesky accounts matching a query against display name, handle, and profile description.

Response behavior

- Each result's `handle` (or `did`) is usable directly as the `actor` parameter to [`/bluesky/profile`](bluesky-profile.md), [`/bluesky/author-feed`](bluesky-author-feed.md), [`/bluesky/followers`](bluesky-followers.md), or [`/bluesky/follows`](bluesky-follows.md).

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "actors": [
      {
        "did": "did:plc:wmho6q2uiyktkam3jsvrms3s",
        "handle": "nbcnews.com",
        "display_name": "NBC News",
        "description": "News updates from around the globe, all day, every day."
      }
    ],
    "cursor": "2"
  }
}

Endpoint Playground

Try the Bluesky search actors API

Returns Bluesky accounts matching a query against display name, handle, and profile description.

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 25 actors; 6 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /bluesky/search-actors?limit=25&q=news
Fields with a value in every checked item: did, handle, display_name, avatar_url, description, created_at

Sample value profiles: created_at: 2023-04-29 to 2024-11-22; avatar_url: cdn.bsky.app; description: median 136 characters.

Request: GET /bluesky/search-actors
Cost: 2 credits/request
Auth: apiKey
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 100%, median 0.94 s
Monitored request: GET /bluesky/search-actors?limit=5&q=news

Bluesky search actors API documentation Bluesky platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/bluesky/search-actors?q=news' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
q	string	Yes	news	Search text
limit	integer	No		Page size, 1-100
cursor	string	No		Pagination cursor from a previous response's cursor field

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "actors": [
      {
        "did": "did:plc:wmho6q2uiyktkam3jsvrms3s",
        "handle": "nbcnews.com",
        "display_name": "NBC News",
        "description": "News updates from around the globe, all day, every day."
      }
    ],
    "cursor": "2"
  }
}

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GETapiKey2 credits/requestbluesky.searchActorsResponseDocBluesky

GET /bluesky/search-actors

Search Bluesky accounts

Returns Bluesky accounts matching a query against display name, handle, and profile description.

Response behavior

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Required query parameters

requiredstring

Search text

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "actors": [
      {
        "did": "did:plc:wmho6q2uiyktkam3jsvrms3s",
        "handle": "nbcnews.com",
        "display_name": "NBC News",
        "description": "News updates from around the globe, all day, every day."
      }
    ],
    "cursor": "2"
  }
}