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Agreed. I assume this will open up Bluesky to a lot of potential legal problems. But will it be any different from accesing the content using the app as the con

by nutanc 2y ago

Agreed. I assume this will open up Bluesky to a lot of potential legal problems. But will it be any different from accesing the content using the app as the content is anyway hosted. That said, just the other day I was thinking, is the reverse possible. I have a web site/blog. Use RSS and then the RSS updates are posted to a handle on Bluesky. I would assume that's a lot more useful?

diggan 2y ago
> That said, just the other day I was thinking, is the reverse possible. I have a web site/blog. Use RSS and then the RSS updates are posted to a handle on Bluesky. I would assume that's a lot more useful? This is trivial, I'm currently doing this for https://bsky.app/profile/aemet-bot.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/aemet-bot.bsky.social which reads a bunch of RSS feeds from AEMET (Spain's national weather service basically) and posts warnings to the feed if there is any warning above Yellow. The code for managing this is about ~200 lines of Rust code.
- nutanc 2y ago
  This is cool. Actually if bluesky can do this automatically where it can fetch RSS and show as handle updates it will be really useful. Will help a bunch of people who wouldn't need to maintain the services. Or maybe there is a potential for a SaaS service?
- skiman10 2y ago
  Do you have that code posted somewhere by chance? I would be interested in browsing through it!
  - diggan 2y ago
    Not right now, no. It's fairly simple (login to Bluesky, read RSS, save item IDs to a text file, post if there are any new feed items, close program then systemd timers run this every N minutes) + pretty specific to AEMET and their formats. If there is interest I guess I could spend some hours to make it a bit more generic and publish the source.
    - skiman10 2y ago
      Cool yeah. I think the thing I was most interested in was interacting with Bluesky through rust. Is there a decent sdk for that?
      - diggan 2y ago
        The meat is this, using bsky-sdk + atrium-api from crates: let agent = BskyAgent::builder().build().await?; agent .login("username.bsky.social", "X") .await?; let rt = RichText::new_with_detect_facets(msg).await?; let record = RecordData { text: rt.text, created_at: atrium_api::types::string::Datetime::now(), facets: rt.facets, }; agent.create_record(record).await?; Works well enough. It's a bit on the lower end of the "abstraction ladder", there might be more user-friendly libraries for doing this even easier now.

by nutanc 2y ago

diggan 2y ago

> That said, just the other day I was thinking, is the reverse possible. I have a web site/blog. Use RSS and then the RSS updates are posted to a handle on Bluesky. I would assume that's a lot more useful? This is trivial, I'm currently doing this for https://bsky.app/profile/aemet-bot.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/aemet-bot.bsky.social which reads a bunch of RSS feeds from AEMET (Spain's national weather service basically) and posts warnings to the feed if there is any warning above Yellow. The code for managing this is about ~200 lines of Rust code.

nutanc 2y ago
This is cool. Actually if bluesky can do this automatically where it can fetch RSS and show as handle updates it will be really useful. Will help a bunch of people who wouldn't need to maintain the services. Or maybe there is a potential for a SaaS service?
skiman10 2y ago
Do you have that code posted somewhere by chance? I would be interested in browsing through it!
- diggan 2y ago
  Not right now, no. It's fairly simple (login to Bluesky, read RSS, save item IDs to a text file, post if there are any new feed items, close program then systemd timers run this every N minutes) + pretty specific to AEMET and their formats. If there is interest I guess I could spend some hours to make it a bit more generic and publish the source.
  - skiman10 2y ago
    Cool yeah. I think the thing I was most interested in was interacting with Bluesky through rust. Is there a decent sdk for that?
    - diggan 2y ago
      The meat is this, using bsky-sdk + atrium-api from crates: let agent = BskyAgent::builder().build().await?; agent .login("username.bsky.social", "X") .await?; let rt = RichText::new_with_detect_facets(msg).await?; let record = RecordData { text: rt.text, created_at: atrium_api::types::string::Datetime::now(), facets: rt.facets, }; agent.create_record(record).await?; Works well enough. It's a bit on the lower end of the "abstraction ladder", there might be more user-friendly libraries for doing this even easier now.