Threads Scraper with Apify

Scrape Meta Threads posts, search by keyword or hashtag, and extract engagement metrics. No login required.

Actor: futurizerush/meta-threads-scraper

Prerequisites

Set APIFY_API_TOKEN in environment. Get a token at console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Execution Flow

Apify runs are asynchronous. Every request follows 3 steps:

1. Start a run -- POST to the actor API, receive a run ID and dataset ID
2. Poll until done -- GET the run status, wait for SUCCEEDED
3. Fetch results -- GET the dataset items (returns a JSON array)

Typical run time: 30 seconds to 2 minutes depending on max_posts.