3 Free Apify Actors for Scraping Bluesky, Substack, and Hacker News (No API Keys Needed)

I built 3 free scrapers for platforms that researchers and developers commonly need data from. All use pay-per-event pricing (free until March 21), no API keys required. If you've ever needed to pull data from Bluesky, Substack, or Hacker News, you know the drill: write a custom script, handle pagination, deal with rate limits, parse HTML. These three Apify Actors handle all of that out of the box. 1. Bluesky Scraper Link: Bluesky Scraper on Apify Store What it does: Scrapes posts, user profiles, and search results from Bluesky via the AT Protocol. Why Bluesky: The AT Protocol is fully open — no authentication tokens needed for public data. With 30M+ users and growing, Bluesky is becoming a primary data source for social media researchers and trend analysts. Example input: { "searchTerms" : [ "web scraping" , "data extraction" ], "maxPosts" : 100 , "includeReplies" : false } This pulls up to 100 posts matching your search terms. You can also scrape specific user profiles or full thread