"I'll have what they are having" for bluesky. The motiviation is to mimic who someone else is following who reports they are having a good experience on bluesky!

follow_theirs.py

def follow_user_follows(client, target_user):
    "Follow everyone the target_user is following."
    
    cursor = None
    total_followed = 0

    while True:
        # Step 1: Fetch a batch of accounts the target user is following
        # https://docs.bsky.app/docs/api/app-bsky-graph-get-follows
        response = client.app.bsky.graph.get_follows({
            'actor': target_user,
            'limit': 100,
            'cursor': cursor
        })
        
        # Step 2: Iterate through the accounts
        for follow in response.follows:
            try:
                # Step 3: Follow each account
                client.follow(follow.did)
                print(f'Following {follow.handle}')
                total_followed += 1
                
                # Step 4: Add a delay to respect rate limits
                time.sleep(2)
            except Exception as e:
                print(f'Error following {follow.handle}: {str(e)}')
        
        # Step 5: Check for more accounts to follow
        if not response.cursor:
            break
        cursor = response.cursor
        
        # Step 6: Print progress
        print(f'Followed {total_followed} users so far')
    
    # Step 7: Print final result
    print(f'Finished following {total_followed} users')
    
    
# Step 8: Set up credentials
USERNAME = 'your_username.bsky.social'
APP_PASSWORD = 'your_app_password'
TARGET_USER = 'target_user.bsky.social'

# Step 9: Initialize and authenticate client
client = Client()
client.login(USERNAME, APP_PASSWORD)

# Step 10: Execute the follow process
follow_user_follows(client, TARGET_USER)

# /// script
# dependencies = [
#   "atproto"
# ]
# ///

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