Bluesky Comment support for MarkPub and MassiveWiki websites

Python package to
(1) post a MarkPub or MassiveWiki webpage link to Bluesky, and
(2) display any comments and likes made to that Bluesky post on the referenced website page.

Tested with Python 3.12.

This code is an excerpt of the code described in the blog post "Posting via the Bluesky API".

Gratitude to Emily Liu and Cory Zue

To install:

pip install markpub_bskypost

Note: this package will be transferred from this test index to pypi.org .

For a list of options and arguments:

markpub_bskypost -h

Some configuration notes and suggestions

Bluesky and GitHub credentials are needed to post to Bluesky and to update pages in a GitHub repository. These can be provided as arguments on the command line, or as local shell environment variables.

Environment Variables:

Create a .env file in your project root with the following variables:

ATP_PDS_HOST=your_bluesky_host_here
ATP_AUTH_HANDLE=your_bluesky_handle_here
ATP_AUTH_PASSWORD=your_bluesky_password_here
GH_TOKEN=your_GitHub_token_here

If ATP_PDS_HOST is not specified “https://bsky.social” is the default.

N.B.: Never commit your .env file to version control. Add it to your .gitignore file.

Website host and Git repository:

The host on which the website is deployed, and the repository holding the Markdown files can be specified on the command line, or in a file in the working directory named bskypost.yaml . Here is an example file:

deploy_site: socialpraxis.netlify.app
repo_name: band/technosocial-praxis

Use example:

This program is run in a terminal application and from the .markpub directory of your repository.

Running markpub_bskypost yields

Enter the Markdown file name: 

One can enter a full-path, or a relative path, to a Markdown file in the repository, or an Obsidian URL (copied from the Obsidian file browser;
for example: obsidian://open?vault=technosocial-praxis&file=notas%2F20250325-testnote )

markpub_bksypost generates the webpage URL to embed in the post and then prompts for the content of the Bluesky post (showing how many characters are available for the post text).

Enter bluesky post text (238 characters available):