Posting something to Bluesky in PHP

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Posting to Bluesky in PHP

Small example how to post something to Bluesky using PHP.

This example is based on the library cjrasmussen/bluesky-api.

composer require cjrasmussen/bluesky-api

This is the result of the snippet below:

post.php

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use cjrasmussen\BlueskyApi\BlueskyApi;

// full handle without the @-sign:
$handle = 'yourhandle.bsky.social';

// retrieve app password here: https://bsky.app/settings/app-passwords
$app_password = 'xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx';

$bluesky = new BlueskyApi($handle, $app_password);

// Post a message
$args = [
    'collection' => 'app.bsky.feed.post',
    'repo' => $bluesky->getAccountDid(),
    'record' => [
        // The actual text of the post
        'text' => 'This is a test message! With a link!',
        // The facets below are optional, but you need them to create a link in your message
        'facets' => [
            [
                "index" => [
                    "byteStart" => 30, // where the link should start. Character 30 here is from 'a link'
                    "byteEnd" => 36, // and where the link should end - just before the exclamation mark.
                ],
                "features" => [
                    [
                        '$type' => "app.bsky.richtext.facet#link",
                        'uri' => 'https://geert.ninja/', // URL to link to
                    ],
                ],
            ],
        ],
        'langs' => ['en'], // language (English here)
        'createdAt' => date('c'), // just the current timestamp
        '$type' => 'app.bsky.feed.post',
    ],
];

// Actually post it to Bluesky
$data = $bluesky->request('POST', 'com.atproto.repo.createRecord', $args);