The bluesky faq bot
From TPOT to Skeet, you can ask the bot about bluesky crazy lore, acronymys, happenings, tools, tech stuff and more.
This is a simple FAQ bot to reply to common questions.
Visit me at @faqbot.bsky.social
or by permanent DID address here: https://staging.bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dy5c7snfz6vgniijd73a6d7z
@faqbot.bsky.social <question>
We use some keyword terms and also fuzzy matching to find the best answer.
The content for the FAQs is currently stored in this google sheet.
You can edit the data here. There's also a command to fetch the latest from here.
ts-node src/cli.ts faqs-fetch
cp .env.example .env and fill out the values.
You can get an app password from inside the bluesky app to not expose your main login creds.
BOT_HANDLE=example.bot.handle.com
BOT_PASSWORD=12345
Using this awesome bot SDK from @tautologer
https://github.com/tautologer/easy-bsky-bot-sdk
For development I use a local linked version:
to do that you should check it out from it's own repo one level up from this bot's code. You'll find in the package.json a local path to the SDK:
"easy-bsky-bot-sdk": "file:../easy-bsky-bot-sdk"
For production, depending on how you deploy, you probably want to replace it with a published version:
npm install --save easy-bsky-bot-sdk
There's a justfile with some other useful commands. Install just to use these.
$ just
Available recipes:
build
clean # remove build artifacts
cls
default # list all recipes
dev-prepare # update bot module assuming path is ../easy-bsky-bot-sdk
docker-build
faqs-fetch # fetch from google sheet
faqs-show # show for previewing
prod-prepare # remove local bot module
run
show-invited
start
test
test-sheet
Trying out fly.io
you might have to edit the fly.toml file to change the app for your own account
fly launch # first time
then fly deploy
to update.
or feel free to request a feature