Bluesky/AT Protocol: cURL API Interaction Cheatsheet

main.sh

#!/bin/bash

# This script resolves a DID, retrieves an API key, fetches a user's feed,
# and posts a "Hello, world" message to the user's feed.

# Resolve DID for handle
HANDLE='felicitas.pojtinger.com'
DID_URL="https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.identity.resolveHandle"
export DID=$(curl -G \
    --data-urlencode "handle=$HANDLE" \
    "$DID_URL" | jq -r .did)

# Get an app password from here: https://staging.bsky.app/settings/app-passwords
export APP_PASSWORD=myapppassword

# Get API key with the app password
API_KEY_URL='https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.server.createSession'
POST_DATA="{ \"identifier\": \"${DID}\", \"password\": \"${APP_PASSWORD}\" }"
export API_KEY=$(curl -X POST \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d "$POST_DATA" \
    "$API_KEY_URL" | jq -r .accessJwt)

# Get a user's feed
ACTOR='felicitas.pojtinger.com'
LIMIT=4
FEED_URL="https://bsky.social/xrpc/app.bsky.feed.getAuthorFeed"
curl -G \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${API_KEY}" \
    --data-urlencode "actor=$ACTOR" \
    --data-urlencode "limit=$LIMIT" \
    "$FEED_URL" | jq -r .feed # Or if you want to return only a user's own posts: jq '.feed | .[] | select((.post.record."$type" == "app.bsky.feed.post") and (.post.record.reply.parent? | not) and (.reason? | not)) | {text: .post.record.text, createdAt: .post.record.createdAt, replyCount: .post.replyCount, repostCount: .post.repostCount, likeCount: .post.likeCount, author: {handle: .post.author.handle, displayName: .post.author.displayName, avatar: .post.author.avatar}}'

# Post "Hello, world" to your feed
POST_FEED_URL='https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.createRecord'
POST_RECORD="{ \"collection\": \"app.bsky.feed.post\", \"repo\": \"${DID}\", \"record\": { \"text\": \"Hello, world\", \"createdAt\": \"$(date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%3NZ)\", \"\$type\": \"app.bsky.feed.post\" } }"
curl -X POST \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${API_KEY}" \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d "$POST_RECORD" \
    "$POST_FEED_URL" | jq -r

thanks a ton for this!

Thank you, this helped me too

thanks, I had to change the date format, but works great otherwise

I used date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"

Resolving a Bluesky handle into a DID is not necessary in order to log in. The /xrpc/com.atproto.server.createSession call will accept a handle for the identifier field.