Bluesky DM to Telegram

This script sends the last message from a specifiec Bluesky conversation with a Bluesky account to a Telegram bot.

Variables

The script expects the following variables:

Variables	Description
WORKING_DIR	Can be changed to whatever directory
PDSHOST	If your not hosting your own PDS it's probably https://bsky.social
BLUESKY_HANDLE	The handle of your Blueksy bot account, e. g. my-bluesky-bot.bsky.social
BLUESKY_PASSWORD	Either your Bluesky bot account's password or it's app password (https://bsky.app/settings/app-passwords)
CONVO_ID	Conversation-ID of the Bluesky bot account, can be retriefed by using get_messages
CHAT_ID	Chat-ID of the Telegram bot
TOKEN	Token for the Telegram bot

Setup

1. Create Bluesky bot account

• Create a new Bluesky account
• It's recommended to create an app password for your Bluesky account and allow access to DMs
• Paste your PDS host's URL (PDSHOST), your account's handle (BLUESKY_HANDLE) and (app) password (BLUESKY_PASSWORD) into the script's respective variables
• Follow your main Bluesky account, so that it can send the bot account DMs

2. Create a Telegram bot

• Create a new bot using the @BotFather
• Paste the bot's token in the script as the TOKEN variable
• Send any message to the bot
• Visit https://api.telegram.org/bot<$TOKEN>/getUpdates and retrieve the CHAT_ID
  • The URL should look something like this: https://api.telegram.org/bot123456789:ABCdefGHI123_abcDEF/getUpdates
  • The CHAT_ID can be found in the following key .results.0.message.chat.id

3. Retrieve your CONVO_ID

• Login to your main Bluesky account and send any message to your Bluesky bot account
• Start the script using the argument create_session so retrieve the Bluesky token (token.json)
• Start the script again using the argument get_message to get the CONVO_ID
• Paste the output in the script as the CONVO_ID

Usage

• Start the script without any argument
• The script should create the bluesky.json and last_id.txt files and send a message to your Telegram bot
• Now you can deploy the script e. g. using `rontab to run continously

Files

The script createts and uses several files to store persistent variables.

• bluesk.json stores the latest Bluesky message ID, URI and poster's account handle
• last_id.txtstores the Bluesky message ID of the last message that was succesfully sent to Telegram
• token.json stores the Bluesky ACCESS_JWT and REFRESH_JWT token