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Bluesky

Read public AT Protocol social data with no key or login

💬 Social & WorkHEALTHYchecked 7h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

Bluesky's public AppView exposes profiles, posts, feeds and follows over plain XRPC calls. Read-only lookups such as fetching a profile work with no key, no login and open CORS. Write actions and private data still require an authenticated session.

96HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 96 · healthy
Uptime history
97.1%90 days
100%30 days
268P50 · ms
1200P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 41 ms, slowest 888 ms, most recent 221 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.actor.getProfile?actor=bsky.app

{
  "did": "did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur",
  "handle": "bsky.app",
  "displayName": "Bluesky",
  "description": "official Bluesky account (check username👆)",
  "createdAt": "2023-04-12T04:53:57.057Z",
  "indexedAt": "2025-10-27T21:05:26.152Z"
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.actor.getProfile?actor=bsky.app"
const res = await fetch("https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.actor.getProfile?actor=bsky.app");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.actor.getProfile?actor=bsky.app")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /xrpc/app.bsky.actor.getProfile?actor=bsky.app268 mschecked 7h ago
GET/xrpc/app.bsky.actor.getProfile?actor=bsky.appPROBED

Read public AT Protocol social data with no key or login

GET/xrpc

Xrpc — documented GET route.

GET/xrpc/1

Xrpc details by ID (example: 1).

GET/xrpc?limit=10

Xrpc — documented GET route.

GET/xrpc/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/xrpc/app.bsky.actor.getProfile?limit=5

App Bsky Actor GetProfile — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Bluesky: common questions

Is Bluesky free to use?

Yes — Bluesky is a free social & work API. Free tier: Free — public AppView, no key. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Bluesky need an API key?

No — Bluesky needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Bluesky from the browser?

Yes — Bluesky returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Bluesky up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Bluesky is healthy with 97.1% uptime over 90 days and a 268 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.