social-general

Bluesky public AppView (AT Protocol)

An open, keyless interface to the whole Bluesky social network, profiles, posts, and feeds across tens of millions of accounts. Public reads of profiles and feeds run through its API without any login or key. It is the cleanest way to pull current social posts and profiles directly into search results.

API

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Why it’s useful & how it works

Bluesky's public AppView is the most accessible social API available today: reading profiles, posts, and feeds requires no account, no key, and no registration. You can look up any public handle or search recent posts, and results come back instantly. This makes it the go-to source for current social content on the Bluesky network, which had roughly 43 million registered accounts as of mid-2026 and was still growing fast.

What’s inside

The entire public Bluesky network, around 43 million registered accounts as of 2026, plus a real-time firehose of all new public posts. Coverage is current and continuously updated, not a frozen snapshot.

API access

https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.actor.getProfile?actor= <handle> ; app.bsky.feed.searchPosts?q= ; app.bsky.feed.getAuthorFeed

What we measured

Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.

Reachability

Direct request: Responded HTTP 200 811 ms
Through a datacenter proxy: Responded HTTP 200 919 ms
API, direct: Responded HTTP 200 494 ms
API, through a proxy: Responded HTTP 200 717 ms

Did a real search return anything?

Returned results · 10 results for the sample query · median 1.1 s · stable across runs

getAuthorFeed/getProfile are public & fast (~0.9s); searchPosts needs auth (app password).

Sample query: debbieohi.com

Benchmark coverage

Found 0 of 1 test items (0%) in the Social cluster. Median response 121 ms.

By how well known the item is: 0/1 well-known .

Reachability measured 2026-08-22. Search checked 2026-08-22. Benchmark run 2026-08-22.