ATProto Clojure SDK

The ATProto Clojure SDK was designed to work in Clojure, ClojureScript, and ClojureDart.

Caution

Work very much in progress. Do not use in production. The API will likely change before the first release.

Progress

From What goes in to a Bluesky or atproto SDK?:

Component	Clojure	ClojureScript	ClojureDart
Basic
API Client	🟢	🟢	🟡
Lexicon Types	🟢	🟢	🟢
Identifier Syntax	🟢	🟢	🟢
Protocol + Data
Keys and Crypto	🟢	⭕	⭕
MST and Repo	⭕	⭕	⭕
Data model	🟡 (no CBOR)	🟡 (no CBOR)	❓
Lex Validation	🟢	🟢	❓
Identity Resolution	🟢	🟢	❓
Stream client	🟢 (Jetstream only)	⭕	⭕
Service Auth	🟡	🟡	❓
Lex Codegen	N/A	N/A	N/A
PLC Operations	⭕	⭕	⭕
OAuth Backend	⭕	⭕	⭕
Service Pieces
HTTP Server	🟡	🟡	⭕
Identity Directory	⭕	⭕	⭕
Repo Storage	⭕	⭕	⭕
Stream Server	⭕	⭕	⭕

• ✅ great! complete, documented, examples, accessible to new devs with no atproto experience
• 🟢 decent. mostly implemented, could point experienced devs at it
• 🟡 partial progress: incomplete, undocumented, not ergonomic
• 🚧 early work in progress, but not usable yet
• ⭕ nothing started
• 🟣 something exists; not assessed
• ❓ unknown (need to check status)

We're not currently planning on supporting Bluesky-specific functionalities: post helpers, social graph helpers, label behaviors, preferences.

Usage

Most calls to the APIs are asynchronous, and return immediately. The return value depends on the platform:

• Clojure: a Clojure promise.
• ClojureScript: a core.async channel.
• ClojureDart: a Dart Watchable.

You can also provide a :channel, :callback or :promise keyword option to receive the return value. Not all options are supported on all platforms.

ATProto Client

The ATProto client supports 3 authentication modes:

• Unauthenticated to make query/procedure calls to public ATProto endpoints
• Credentials-based authentication to use with your own username/password for CLI tools
• OAuth to make query/procedure calls on your users' behalf.

You specify the mode when initializing the client.

(require '[atproto.client :as at])

;; Unauthenticated client to public endpoint
(def client @(at/init {:service "https://public.api.bsky.app"}))

;; Bluesky endpoints and their query params can be found here:
;; https://docs.bsky.app/docs/category/http-reference

;; Credentials-based authenticated client
(def client @(at/init {:credentials {:identifier "<me.bsky.social>"
                                     :password "SECRET"}}))

;; For OAuth, see the Statusphere example app

Once the client has been initialized, query and procedure calls can be made against the ATProto service endpoint.

;; Issue a query with the client
@(at/query client {:nsid "app.bsky.actor.getProfile"
                   :params {:actor "<me.bsky.social>"}})

;; => {:handle "<me.bsky.social>" ... }

;; Using core.async
(def result (async/chan))
(at/query client
          {:nsid "app.bsky.actor.getProfile"
           :params {:actor "<me.bsky.social>"}}
          :channel result)
(async/<!! result)

If an error occurs, the response map will contain an :error key containing a short name describing the error. A human-readable message is usually added as well under the :message key.

Jetstream

Connect to Bluesky's Jetstream service to get real-time updates of public network data. Jetstream provides a JSON-based alternative to the binary CBOR firehose, making it easier to work with post streams, likes, follows, and other events.

The Jetstream implementation is currently only supported for JVM Clojure.

(require '[atproto.jetstream :as jet])
(require '[clojure.core.async :as a]))

;; Define a channel to recieve events
(def events-ch (a/chan))

;; Subscribe to the jetstream
(def control-ch (jet/consume events-ch :wanted-collections ["app.bsky.feed.post"]))

;; Consume events
(a/go-loop [count 0]
  (if-let [event (a/<! events-ch)]
    (do
      (when (zero? (rem count 100)) (println (format "Got %s posts" count)))
      (recur (inc count)))
    (println "event channel closed")))

;; Stop processing
(a/close! control-ch)

See the examples directory for more examples.

SDK Organization

The platform-specific functions are under the atproto.runtime namespace. Most of the rest of the code is platform-agnostic.

Namespace	Purpose
client	ATProto client to make query and procedure calls to ATProto services.
credentials	Credentials-based session to use with the ATProto client.
oauth.client	OAuth 2.0 client for ATProto profile. Create a session that can be used with the ATProto client.
data	ATProto data model.
data.json	JSON-representation of the ATProto data model.
identity	Identity resolution (handles and DIDs).
jetstream	Clojure client for Bluesky's Jetstream service.
lexicon	Schema definition and validation functions for records, queries, and procedure calls.
runtime	Runtime-specific functions.
tid	Timestamp identifiers for records.
xrpc.client	To make queries and procedure calls to XRPC servers.
xrpc.server	To implement XRPC servers.

Contribute

Help is very much welcomed!

Before submitting a pull request, please take a look at the Issues to see if the topic you are interested in is already being discussed, and if it is not, please create an Issue to discuss it before making a PR.

License

MIT, see LICENSE file