libbluesky

libbluesky is a C/C++ client library for the BlueSky API. It requires a Bluesky account to connect through and an application password to authenticate with.

Note: This library is very much in alpha and will experience change over the coming months.

Usage

To initialize the library, the user's github token is required.

char *bksy_app_password = getenv("BSKY_APP_PASSWORD");
int ret = bs_client_init("bdowns328.bsky.social", bksy_app_password, NULL);
if (ret > 0) {
    fprintf(stderr, "failed to login to bluesky\n");
    return 1;
}

Build shared object

To build the shared object:

make install

Example

Build the example:

make example

API Coverage

• API response data is returned in a string containing JSON.
• The caller is responsible for how to handle the data.

User

• Retrieve a user's profile information
• Retrieve the authenticated preferences
• Retrieve follows for a given handle
• Retrieve followers for a given handle
• Resolve handle into DID (domain identifier)

Posts

• Create a post
• Retrieve the authenticated user's timeline
• Retrieve post for a given account

Likes

• Retrieve likes for the authenticated user
• Retrieve likes for a given at-uri

Requirements / Dependencies

• curl
• jansson

Contributing

Please feel free to open a PR!

Contact

Brian Downs @bdowns328

License

BSD 2 Clause License.