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Interact with Bluesky Social
https://github.com/christopherkenny/bskyr

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Interact with Bluesky Social

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# bskyr

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`bskyr` provides an interface to the Bluesky Social API, allowing you to interact with Bluesky Social from R.
To do this, we provide functions which match with the [AT Protocol's Lexicon](https://atproto.com/guides/lexicon), which is like using regular HTTP requests.
Outputs from `bskyr`'s functions are primarily `tibble`s, allowing for easy analysis of the outputs from the API calls.

## Installation

You can install the stable version of `bskyr` from [CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org/package=bskyr) with:

```r
install.packages('bskyr')
```

You can install the development version of `bskyr` from [GitHub](https://github.com/) with:

``` r
# install.packages('pak')
pak::pak('christopherkenny/bskyr')
```

## Posting with `bskyr`

First, load the package:

```{r}
library(bskyr)
```

Text posts can be made as follows:

```r
bs_post('text = Your text goes here.')
```

If you have images to include, up to four can be included with the `images` argument:

```r
bs_post(
text = 'Your text goes here.',
images = c('path/to/image1.jpg', 'path/to/image2.png')
)
```

Alt text can be added to images with the `images_alt` argument:

```r
bs_post(
text = 'Your text goes here.',
images = c('path/to/image1.jpg', 'path/to/image2.png'),
images_alt = c('Alt text for image 1', 'Alt text for image 2')
)
```

To quote or reply to a post, use the `quote` and/or `reply` argument, respectively.
These can take the link of an existing post.
You can quote and reply to the same post, if you want.

```r
bs_post(
text = 'Your text goes here.',
quote = 'https://bsky.app/profile/chriskenny.bsky.social/post/3kepscxiljc22',
reply = 'https://bsky.app/profile/chriskenny.bsky.social/post/3kepscxiljc22'
)
```

See the reference for additional features, including likes with `bs_like()` and reposts with `bs_repost()`.

## Authentication

To authenticate, you first need to make an App Password.
To do this, go to .
Under "Advanced" click App passwords and then "Add App Password."

Once you have a password, you need to run:

```r
set_bluesky_user('YOUR-USERNAME.bsky.social')
set_bluesky_pass('your-apps-pass-word')
```

If you want this to persist across sessions, set `install = TRUE` and `r_env = file.path(Sys.getenv('HOME'), '.Renviron')`.
This will save your credentials in your R environment file.

Alternatively, you can set them manually using `usethis::edit_r_environ()` and adding lines like so:

```
BLUESKY_APP_USER='YOUR-USERNAME.bsky.social'
BLUESKY_APP_PASS='your-apps-pass-word'
```

##