Automatically Posting to Bluesky on New RSS Items

Hey folks - just a quick warning. This post is kind of a mashup/update of two earlier posts. Back almost two years ago I talked about this process but used Twitter and Mastodon: "Automatically Posting to Mastodon and Twitter on New RSS Items". Earlier this year I first talked about using the Bluesky API, with a very appropriately named post: "Using the Bluesky API". As I said, this post is going to mash up bits from both, and include new things I've not covered before, but for those of you who have been around here for a while, some of this may be repetition.

For this solution, I'm using Pipedream. I've blogged for years now and love it. Their free tier will support what I'm showing below so you should feel free to give it a try. There are many alternatives out there, but Pipedream has some great features that I think make it stand out. You'll see that especially in the first step below. But, keep in mind if you've already got a platform you would want to use, as long as you can handle the execution on new RSS items, you could probably just skip to the last step and copy and paste from my code.

The first thing our workflow needs is the ability to fire on a new item added to a RSS feed. This requires setting up a schedule, parsing the RSS feed, and most importantly, recognizing when a new item has been added. Luckily, Pipedream has this built in.

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