🐦 ssky - Simple Bluesky Client

A lightweight, command-line Bluesky client that makes it easy to interact with the Bluesky social network from your terminal.

✨ Features

• 🔑 Simple authentication and session management
• 📝 Post, reply, quote, and repost content
• 🔍 Search posts and users
• 👥 Follow/unfollow users
• 📊 View timelines and profiles
• 🖼️ Support for images and link cards
• 📦 Linux shell friendly output formats

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

pip install ssky

Login

ssky login your-handle.bsky.social:your-password

Or set credentials via environment variable:

export SSKY_USER=your-handle.bsky.social:your-password

📖 Basic Usage

Posting

# Simple post
ssky post "Hello, Bluesky!"

# Post with images
ssky post "Check out these photos!" --image photo1.jpg --image photo2.jpg

# Reply to a post
ssky post "Great post!" --reply-to at://did:plc:.../app.bsky.feed.post/...

# Quote a post
ssky post "Interesting!" --quote at://did:plc:.../app.bsky.feed.post/...

Reading

# View your timeline
ssky get

# View your timeline with full threads
ssky get --thread

# Get specific post with its thread
ssky get at://did:plc:.../app.bsky.feed.post/... --thread

# Get user's posts as threads with custom depth
ssky get user.bsky.social --thread --thread-depth 5 --thread-parent-height 2

# View someone's profile
ssky profile user.bsky.social

# Search posts
ssky search "keyword"

# Search users
ssky user "username"

Social Actions

# Follow a user
ssky follow user.bsky.social

# Repost a post
ssky repost at://did:plc:.../app.bsky.feed.post/...

# Delete a post
ssky delete at://did:plc:.../app.bsky.feed.post/...

🔧 Advanced Usage

Thread Retrieval

Retrieve posts along with their complete conversation threads:

# Get timeline with full threads (each post expanded to its thread)
ssky get --thread

# Get specific post's thread
ssky get at://did:plc:.../app.bsky.feed.post/... --thread

# Get user's posts as threads
ssky get user.bsky.social --thread

# Control thread depth (default: 10 replies deep)
ssky get --thread --thread-depth 5

# Include parent posts (default: 0 parents)
ssky get --thread --thread-parent-height 2

# Save threads to files
ssky get --thread --output ./threads

Thread Output Formatting:

• Short/ID format (-S, -I): Reply lines prefixed with "| "
• Long/Text format (-L, -T): Posts within thread separated by "|", independent threads by "----------------"
• JSON/simple-json: Cannot be used with --thread (returns error)

Output Formats

# Get only post IDs
ssky get --id

# Get only text content
ssky get --text

# Get full JSON output
ssky get --json

# Get simplified JSON with facets metadata (ideal for programmatic access)
ssky get --simple-json

# Save posts to files
ssky get --output ./posts

Facets Metadata in Simple-JSON

The --simple-json format includes structured facets metadata for rich text features:

• links: URLs with byte positions and text
• mentions: User mentions with handles, DIDs, and byte positions
• tags: Hashtags with byte positions and text

Example output:

{
  "status": "success",
  "data": [{
    "uri": "at://...",
    "cid": "...",
    "author": {
      "did": "did:plc:...",
      "handle": "user.bsky.social",
      "display_name": "User Name",
      "avatar": "https://..."
    },
    "text": "Check out https://example.com @user.bsky.social #bluesky",
    "created_at": "2024-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
    "facets": {
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "https://example.com",
          "byte_start": 10,
          "byte_end": 30,
          "text": "https://example.com"
        }
      ],
      "mentions": [
        {
          "handle": "user.bsky.social",
          "did": "did:plc:...",
          "byte_start": 31,
          "byte_end": 49,
          "text": "@user.bsky.social"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        {
          "tag": "bluesky",
          "byte_start": 50,
          "byte_end": 58,
          "text": "#bluesky"
        }
      ]
    }
  }]
}

Useful Examples

# Reply to your last post
ssky post "Update!" --reply-to $(ssky get myself --limit 1 --id)

# Search your own posts
ssky search "keyword" --author myself

# Save your timeline to files
ssky get --output ./timeline

🤖 IDE Integration

Cursor Agent MCP Tools

ssky provides comprehensive MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools for seamless integration with Cursor Agent, enabling AI-powered Bluesky interactions directly in your development environment.

Features:

• 📋 10 comprehensive tools: Complete Bluesky functionality
• 🤖 AI-optimized: Long format defaults for better AI understanding
• 🔧 Full feature support: Posts with images, quotes, replies, search, social actions
• ⚡ Real-time integration: Direct Bluesky interaction from Cursor

Quick Setup:

# For new MCP setup: copy sample configuration (no build required!)
mkdir -p .cursor
cp mcp/mcp.sample.json .cursor/mcp.json

# Set your Bluesky credentials
export SSKY_USER=your-handle.bsky.social:your-password

# Restart Cursor to load the MCP tools

✨ Docker will automatically pull the pre-built image on first use!

Advanced Setup:

• For existing MCP setup: Add ssky server to your .cursor/mcp.json (see mcp/mcp.sample.json)
• For local development: Use cd mcp && ./build.sh && cd .. to build locally
• Complete guide: See MCP Documentation

Available Tools:

• ssky_get, ssky_search, ssky_user, ssky_profile - Content retrieval
• ssky_post - Content creation with images/quotes/replies
• ssky_follow, ssky_unfollow, ssky_repost, ssky_unrepost - Social actions
• ssky_delete - Content management

📖 Complete MCP Documentation

🧪 Development with Dev Container

For development using VS Code Dev Containers:

1. Copy the environment configuration file and set your Bluesky credentials:

   cp .env.local.sample .env.local

   Edit .env.local and add your Bluesky handle and password:

   SSKY_USER=your-handle.bsky.social:your-password
   SSKY_SKIP_REAL_API_TESTS=1

2. The dev container automatically:

   • Loads environment variables from .env.local
   • Installs Claude Code extension
   • Sets up Python 3.12 environment with Docker support

🧪 Testing

To run the tests in the tests/ directory:

1. Copy the environment configuration file and set your Bluesky credentials:

   cp tests/_env tests/.env

   Edit tests/.env and add your Bluesky handle and password.

2. Run tests using pytest:

   # Run all tests
   pytest tests/ -v
   
   # Run individual feature tests
   pytest tests/test_login.py -v              # Login functionality
   pytest tests/test_post_and_delete.py -v    # Post and delete operations
   pytest tests/test_search.py -v             # Search functionality
   pytest tests/test_follow_unfollow.py -v    # Follow/unfollow operations
   pytest tests/test_get.py -v                # Timeline retrieval
   pytest tests/test_profile.py -v            # Profile display
   pytest tests/test_repost_unrepost.py -v    # Repost/unrepost operations
   pytest tests/test_user.py -v               # User functionality

📝 Requirements

• Python 3.12 or later

📜 License

MIT License

👥 Author

SimpleSkyClient Project