Automatically post to Bluesky

Marketing & promotion
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Has anyone successfully managed to get Ghost posts to be shared automatically with Bluesky?

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Bluesky doesn’t have a Zapier integration, so there is no “plug and play” option and it will require some coding.

The base for it would be the Bluesky API: Posting via the Bluesky API | AT Protocol

Technically, you could use the Code by Zapier integration to stitch that together. For reference, somebody wrote a tutorial on how to do it with Make, which you could use as inspiration: Connect Bluesky and MAKE.com for new posts - Jans Weblog

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Interesting. Do you find Bluesky able to generate traffic?

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Thanks, I’ll take a look and have a stab at it!

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Don’t know, as we have only just set it up, but we brought over a large portion of our Twitter and Mastodon followers, so there are people there – like with Mastodon, we want to automate everything about it. Twitter/FB/Instagram still dominate traffic.

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Figured out posting to Blue Sky with Make, it’s messy - the API does not pull image URL’s, only local assets, Make has local storage module available which saves the day.

Basically

  1. Pull Feature or Twitter Image from Ghost to local storage
  2. Resolve user with BlueSky
  3. Create a session
  4. Push the image to BlueSky, generates a blob
  5. Split up the image-blob json
  6. Post to Blue Sky

bluesky
bluesky1624Ă—564 65.7 KB

… and looks good…

bluesky1
bluesky1629Ă—633 176 KB

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I’ve also been able to do this using Node-Red. The process is exactly as @mheland describes.

I found this example helpful:

One issue I ran into is that image blobs have to be less than 1MB.