🐦 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 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

Output Formats

# Get only post IDs
ssky get --id

# Get only text content
ssky get --text

# Get full JSON output
ssky get --json

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

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

🧪 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