quick and dirty bluesky posting script

bluesky_post.py

# Quick and dirty script to post via API, mostly for the purposes of 
# making threads without having to manually break up at character count breaks (in version 2)
# largely adapted/swiped from the more full-featured library at https://github.com/ianklatzco/atprototools/tree/master 

import requests
import datetime

# Authentication information
# n.b.: ketchain is a pythonista (ipad/ios python app) library, for a real computer use envirnoment variables instead
import keychain
username = "YOUREMAIL@HERE.COM"
password = keychain.get_password("bluesky", username)

# Session information
server = "https://bsky.social"
REPO = ""  # I think this is an internal account identifier?
AUTH_TOKEN = ""

# should really just do all of this in a class like a proper python guy but fuckit
def login(username, password):
    endpoint = server + "/xrpc/com.atproto.server.createSession"
    data =  {"identifier": username, "password": password}
    response = requests.post(endpoint, json=data)
    return response.json().get("did"), response.json().get('accessJwt')
    
REPO, AUTH_TOKEN = login(username, password)

def post(content):
    endpoint = server + "/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.createRecord"
    headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + AUTH_TOKEN}
    timestamp = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).isoformat().replace('+00:00', 'Z')
    data = {
        "collection": "app.bsky.feed.post",
        "$type": "app.bsky.feed.post",
        "repo": REPO,
        "record": {
            "$type": "app.bsky.feed.post",
            "createdAt": timestamp,
            "text": content
            }
        }
    resp = requests.post(endpoint, json=data, headers=headers)
    return resp
            
post("Ignore this, I'm testing a script to post via API.")