Bluesky API Info

This page mainly serves as a reference point for myself when making stuff using Bluesky’s API. Their API is simple and nice to work with to the point that I rarely bother using any kind of framework (at least when accessing the public API, which requires no auth)

This tends to use the public Bluesky AppView: https://public.api.bsky.app/

Listing all posts from a user

This can be achieved by using app.bsky.feed.getAuthorFeed

For instance: https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.feed.getAuthorFeed?actor=HANDLE

e.g. https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.feed.getAuthorFeed?actor=yernemm.xyz

Or for no replies: https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.feed.getAuthorFeed?filter=posts_no_replies&actor=HANDLE

Filtering out reposts

There doesn’t seem to be a way to filter out reposts directly in the API call so in cases where I want only my own posts, I tend to manually filter out posts containing a reason.

Here’s a simplified snippet of how I filter that for my Bluesky feed on yernemm.xyz and limit it to 15 posts max:

const handle = "YOUR HANDLE";
 
fetch("https://api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.feed.getAuthorFeed?actor=" + handle + "&filter=posts_no_replies&limit=30&includePins=false")
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => {
 
  const posts = data.feed.filter((item: any) => item.post && !item.reason).slice(0, 15);
 
  //Process posts here
 
});

I initially fetch 30 posts to account for the filter removing some of them, this leaves me with up to 15 posts to embed depending on how many were initially removed. You could iteratively fetch more posts using cursor to account for this but I did not bother.

Note: I have now decided to include reposts in my own feed on my front page so this snippet is lost media 👻