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Mastodon Scraper

Scrape posts, profiles, and hashtag feeds from Mastodon instances using the public API. No authentication required.

🚀 Features

• Search by hashtags - Find posts about any topic across the fediverse
• Scrape user accounts - Get all posts from specific accounts
• Multi-instance support - Works with any Mastodon instance
• Engagement metrics - Replies, reblogs, favourites
• Media extraction - Images, videos, GIFs
• No authentication required - Uses public Mastodon API

💰 Pricing

• FREE: First 100 posts per run
• $0.001 per post after free tier ($1 per 1,000 posts)
• $0.05 platform fee per run

📊 Output Schema

Each post includes:

{
"id":"1093849203849283",
"uri":"https://mastodon.social/users/gargron/statuses/1093849203849283",
"url":"https://mastodon.social/@gargron/1093849203849283",
"text":"Hello from the fediverse!",
"createdAt":"2022-11-15T10:30:00.000Z",
"author":{
"id":"1",
"username":"gargron",
"acct":"gargron@mastodon.social",
"displayName":"Eugen Rochko",
"avatar":"https://...",
"followersCount":124500,
"followingCount":234,
"statusesCount":5234,
"url":"https://mastodon.social/@gargron"
},
"engagement":{
"replies":45,
"reblogs":123,
"favourites":567
},
"tags":["opensource","linux"],
"media":[
{"type":"image","url":"https://...","previewUrl":"https://..."}
],
"isBoost":false,
"isReply":false,
"source":"hashtag:opensource",
"instance":"mastodon.social",
"crawledAt":"2026-02-20T12:00:00.000Z"
}

📝 Example Use Cases

• Fediverse research - Study decentralized social media trends
• Brand monitoring - Track mentions across Mastodon instances
• Community analysis - Analyze hashtag usage and engagement
• Content aggregation - Build Mastodon content feeds
• Academic research - Study federated social networks

🔗 Links

• Mastodon
• Mastodon API Docs

Support

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