blueskysocial

blueskysocial

blueskysocial is a Python library for managing social media posts and images. It provides a Client class for interacting with social media platforms, as well as classes for representing posts and images.

Important Note About Issues

While I welcome issues and try to work on them, I also have come to realise that I frequently don't see them.

If you submit an issue, I kindly ask that you also send me a message to https://bsky.app/profile/dmitry.mclachbot.com to let me know about it

Installation

To install blueskysocial, you can use pip:

pip install blueskysocial

Usage

Making an individual post

from blueskysocial import Client, Post, Image

client = Client()
client.authenticate(user_name, password)

image = Image('path/to/image.jpg', alt_text='This is an image.')
post = Post('Hello, world!, This is my first post.', with_attachments=[image])
client.post(post)

Posting threads

from blueskysocial import Client, Post, Image

client = Client()
client.authenticate(user_name, password)

image = Image('path/to/image.jpg', alt_text='This is an image.')
post = Post('Hello, world!, This is my first post.', with_attachments=[image])
second_post = Post('Another Post')
client.post_thread([post,second_post])

Posting with a video.

As of version 1.5.0, embedding video in your post is supported. Currently video can only be embedded from a local file. Please note, that when embedding a video in a post, it may take several minutes for Bluesky to process your video, during which a video frame with "Video Not Found" will appear in your post.

The following video formats are supported

• mp4
• mpeg
• webm
• mov

from blueskysocial import Client, Post, Video
client = Client()
client.authenticate(user_name, password)

video = Video('path/to/video.mov')
post = Post('Video Post', with_attachments=video)
client.post(post)

Link Shortening

Bluesky counts URL characters towards the 300 character limit. The solution to this is to format your links. blueskysocial supports markdown link formatting. If you format your post text in the following fashion

from blueskysocial import Client, Post

client = Client()
client.authenticate(user_name, password)
post = Post('Hello, world!, This is my first post.  But with a link.  [Click here](http://really.long.url.here)'),
clinet.post(post)

Your post text will be "Hello, world!, This is my first post. But with a link. Click here", with the words "Click here" being a link. In this fashion, only the characters in "Click here" count towards the limit

Web Cards

Webcards are the small preview images of a linked website that appear at the bottom of the posts and also serve as links. You can embed a webcard with the following syntax

from blueskysocial import Client, Post, WebCard

client = Client()
client.authenticate(user_name, password)
webcard = WebCard("http://url_to_link_to.com/article")
post = Post('Check out this article!', with_attachments=webcard)
clinet.post(post)

Direct Messsage Interface

Get all convos and show the member and last message of the last conversation

convos = client.get_convos()
print(convos[-1].participant)
print(convos[-1].last_message)

Get convos based ona filter. Many other filters are available, this is not an exhaustive list

convos = client.get_convos(
    bs.F.And(
        bs.F.Eq(bs.F.Participant, 'someusername.bsky.social'),
        bs.F.GT(bs.F.LastMessageTime, '2024-01-01')
    )
)
print(convos[-1].participant)
print(convos[-1].last_message)

Get all messages in a conversation

messages = convos[-1].get_messages()
print(messages[0].sent_at)
print(messages[-1].sent_at)
print(messages[0].text)

Please notice that the message list is ordered such that last message is first

2024-11-26 12:47:31.704000
2024-11-22 22:33:38.323000
Great stuff!

Get a conversation with a specific member or members. This is also how you create a new conversation if you want to DM someone you haven't sent messages to before

convo = client.get_convo_for_members('someusername.bsky.social')

Send a message

convo.send_message('Hello, World!')

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

License

blueskysocial is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.