| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| language: |
| - en |
| pretty_name: "Mastodon Scraper" |
| size_categories: |
| - 10K<n<100K |
| tags: |
| - "reapx" |
| - "web-scraping" |
| - "open-data" |
| - "mastodon-scraper" |
| - "mastodon" |
| - "posts" |
| - "accounts" |
| - "hashtags" |
| - "instances" |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: mastodon-scraper.jsonl |
| --- |
| |
|  |
|
|
| # Mastodon Scraper |
|
|
| Read public Mastodon posts by hashtag, instance timeline, trending or account, and get one structured row per post with the author, engagement counts, hashtags, media and outbound links. |
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| | --- | --- | |
| | Rows in this dataset | 24,226 | |
| | Fields | 67 | |
| | Collector runs behind it | 66 | |
| | Most recent observation | 2026-08-04 | |
| | Browsable presentation | [https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/) — 7,898 entity pages | |
| | Run the collector yourself | [https://apify.com/reapx/mastodon-scraper](https://apify.com/reapx/mastodon-scraper) | |
|
|
| ## What this is |
|
|
| Every row here was returned by a real run of a public collector. Nothing is generated from a |
| template over a keyword list: a row exists because a run observed it. |
|
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| A browsable presentation of the subset that carries an addressable `handle` is published as |
| 7,898 entity pages at [https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/), one page per entity. **This dataset is |
| the larger of the two** — rows whose payload has no field that can address a page are here and |
| are not published there. |
|
|
| ## Provenance |
|
|
| Each row carries `_run_id` and `_dataset_id`, naming the collector run that produced it, so any |
| row can be traced back to the run that observed it. Rows observed by more than one run are |
| deduplicated on content; 156 duplicate observations were collapsed. |
|
|
| ## Files |
|
|
| - `mastodon-scraper.jsonl` — one JSON object per row, the canonical form |
| - `mastodon-scraper.csv` — the same rows flattened; nested values are JSON-encoded within their cell |
| so they round-trip |
| - `dataset.json` — schema.org `Dataset` metadata |
|
|
| ## Loading it |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| ds = load_dataset("reapxdev/mastodon-scraper", split="train") |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## A sample of the published entities |
|
|
| - [2137.social/13](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/2137-social-13/) |
| - [chaos.social/kc](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/chaos-social-kc/) |
| - [fosstodon.org/jan_niestadt](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/fosstodon-org-jan-niestadt/) |
| - [hachyderm.io/woile](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/hachyderm-io-woile/) |
| - [mamot.fr/matiu_bidule](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/mamot-fr-matiu-bidule/) |
| - [mastodon.octofriends.garden/kris_of_pnictogen](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/mastodon-octofriends-garden-kris-of-pnictogen/) |
| - [mastodon.social/eighthourlunch](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/mastodon-social-eighthourlunch/) |
| - [mastodon.social/omkar_foss](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/mastodon-social-omkar-foss/) |
| - [mastodon.world/kammerotica](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/mastodon-world-kammerotica/) |
| - [musicworld.social/ZamRock](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/musicworld-social-zamrock/) |
| - [post.lurk.org/Lemmy](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/post-lurk-org-lemmy/) |
| - [sunny.garden/kaimac](https://reapx.dev/data/mastodon-scraper/sunny-garden-kaimac/) |
|
|
| ## Related |
|
|
| - All sources: <https://reapx.dev/data/> · machine-readable index: <https://reapx.dev/llms.txt> |
| - The collector is a public Apify Actor; agents reach it through <https://mcp.apify.com> |
|
|
| ## Licence |
|
|
| Collected from public sources. This metadata and the published pages are |
| [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); the underlying records remain under |
| the terms of their originating source. |
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