Bluesky is the odd one out in this category, in the best way: its official API is genuinely open. Public profile data comes from a public endpoint with no key, no app review, and no developer account. If Bluesky is the only network you care about, the official API is a fine choice, and this page will not pretend otherwise.
What the official API asks of you
Very little, and that is the honest answer. Profile lookups work unauthenticated, the JSON is clean, and follower, following, and post counts are right there. The costs only show up at the edges. It is one more client to write and maintain, one more rate limit to respect, and the response has its own ideas: verification, for instance, is spread across two fields with values like "valid" rather than "verified", plus a separate flag for trusted verifiers, so "is this account verified?" is not a single-field read.
What Metrika gives you for Bluesky
Send a public handle and get back the datapoints we hold for
it: follower count, following count, post count, and
verified status.
Bluesky handles are domains, so the identifier is the full
handle: bsky.app, npr.org, or a custom domain.
$ curl -X POST https://metrika.run/api/v1/resources/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"resources": [{"platform": "bluesky", "type": "account", "identifier": "npr.org"}]}'Follower, following, and post counts come back under
metrics, verified status under attributes, as a single
boolean that covers both regular verification and trusted
verifiers.
The same request shape everywhere
Bluesky is one of many platforms Metrika supports, alongside Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Threads. The request you write here is the request you write for all of them, and that is the actual argument. A brand's presence is rarely one network, and Bluesky is usually one row in a wider picture, next to the same name on X and Instagram. One token, one response shape, up to ten accounts in a single call, mixing platforms freely.
What Metrika is not
Metrika is read-only and public-only. It will not post, read timelines, or act on an account you own, and it does not expose the AT Protocol's richer surface: feeds, likes, lists, custom records. If you need any of that, the official API is the right tool, and an unusually pleasant one.
Getting started
Create an account, generate an API key from your dashboard, and you get up to 500 requests per month at no cost, no credit card required. The docs cover authentication and response formats.
Get started with Metrika
Create a free account and start pulling social media datapoints in minutes. The free tier includes 500 requests per month, no credit card required.