The follow subcommand should be able to read a list of accounts from a YAML file

mattn / bsky

A cli application for bluesky social

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Closed jlewi closed 2 weeks ago

jlewi commented 2 weeks ago

This makes it easy to collaboratively maintain lists of accounts to follow
Right now bluesky supports starter packs but there's no easy way to collaborate on them
With this PR folks can collaborate using a YAML file in git
They can then just use the CLI to follow them.

CLI supports reading directly from a URL so a user can do something like

bsky follow -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jlewi/bskylists/refs/heads/main/aiengineering.yaml

jlewi commented 2 weeks ago

@mattn PTAL.

mattn commented 2 weeks ago

You can do it with xargs and yq?

$ cat follows.txt | xargs bsky follow

$ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jlewi/bskylists/refs/heads/main/aiengineering.yaml | yq .accounts[].handle | xargs bsky follow

jlewi commented 2 weeks ago

That works but is slightly more inconvenient; if for no other reason than you need yq installed.

jlewi commented 2 weeks ago

Totally understand if you don't want to accept the PR; I can always fork.