How I built a Bluesky scraper using the AT Protocol API (and published it on Api

<p>Hey folks! 👋<br /> As a solo developer building for the global market, balancing performance, shipping speed, and server costs is always a tricky triangle. Recently, I launched

<p>Every AI agent has the same problem. You ask it to read a webpage and it comes back with a 403, or worse, 5000 tokens of navigation bars and cookie banners.</p> <p>I spent the

<p>Bluesky is growing fast, but there's still no built-in way to download videos from posts. So I built <a href="https://bskyvideo.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">bskyvideo.com</a>

<p>Back in January, I pushed a LinkedIn Employee Scraper to the Apify Store. No budget. No influencer shoutouts. No Product Hunt launch. Just me, a Node.js actor, and a lot of

<p>X charges $0.200 for every post that contains a URL. Bluesky charges nothing. That one line from the <a href="https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing" rel="noopener

<p>I've written a lot of scrapers. The HTML parsing part is never the interesting part — and it's always the part that takes the longest. You know what data you want. You know

<p>You spent months tuning your <code>&lt;title&gt;</code> tags, chasing backlinks, submitting sitemaps to Google Search Console. Your rankings are solid. Then you ask ChatGPT