adopt-a-pet-bot

Adopt a Pet Bluesky Bot

A bot that shares adoptable pets from Petfinder to @adoptapet.bsky.social on Bluesky. The bot fetches random pets from the Petfinder API every 30 minutes, helping to increase visibility for pets in need of homes.

Configuration

Required environment variables:

BSKY_PASSWORD=your_bsky_password
BSKY_USERNAME=your_bsky_username
PETFINDER_API_KEY=your_petfinder_api_key
PETFINDER_API_SECRET=your_petfinder_secret

Development

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Run in development mode
pnpm dev

# Run in production mode
pnpm start

Deployment

The bot is hosted on Fly.io with a cron job scheduled to run every 30 minutes using node-cron. The server also exposes a /health endpoint for health checks.

To deploy:

# Deploy to Fly.io
fly deploy

# Set environment variables
fly secrets set BSKY_PASSWORD=your_password
fly secrets set BSKY_USERNAME=your_username
fly secrets set PETFINDER_API_KEY=your_api_key
fly secrets set PETFINDER_API_SECRET=your_secret

License

MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.