Liking and reposting

Liking and reposting posts are core Bluesky actions. A like or repost is itself a record in the user's repository — many SDKs provide dedicated helpers for creating and removing them.

Liking a post

Liking a post requires the post's URI and its CID.

The URI indicates the repository DID, collection, and record key. The CID is the hash of the record itself.

TypeScript

like

  import { like } from '@bsky/sdk'

  const { uri: likeUri } = await client.call(like, { uri, cid })

Python

client.like

  uri = client.like(uri=uri, cid=cid).uri

Go

The Go SDK has no dedicated helper; create an app.bsky.feed.like record pointing at the post:

like := &appbsky.FeedLike{
  CreatedAt: time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339),
  Subject:   &comatproto.RepoStrongRef{Uri: uri, Cid: cid},
}
resp, _ := comatproto.RepoCreateRecord(ctx, client, &comatproto.RepoCreateRecord_Input{
  Repo:       client.AccountDID.String(),
  Collection: "app.bsky.feed.like",
  Record:     &lexutil.LexiconTypeDecoder{Val: like},
})

Parameter	Type	Description	Required
uri	string	The URI of the post	Yes
cid	string	The CID of the post	Yes

Unliking a post

Unliking a post requires only the post's URI, which refers to its record. In the case of a Like, unliking the post means deleting the Like record.

TypeScript

deleteLike

  import { deleteLike } from '@bsky/sdk'

  await client.call(deleteLike, likeUri)

Python

client.delete_like

  client.delete_like(uri)

Go

Delete the like record. Its rkey is the last segment of the URI returned when you created it:

import "strings"

rkey := uri[strings.LastIndex(uri, "/")+1:]
comatproto.RepoDeleteRecord(ctx, client, &comatproto.RepoDeleteRecord_Input{
  Repo:       client.AccountDID.String(),
  Collection: "app.bsky.feed.like",
  Rkey:       rkey,
})

Parameter	Type	Description	Required
uri	string	The URI of the like record to delete	Yes

Reposting a post

Reposting and un-reposting looks almost exactly the same as liking and unliking.

TypeScript

repost

  import { repost } from '@bsky/sdk'

  const { uri: repostUri } = await client.call(repost, { uri, cid })

Python

client.repost

  uri = client.repost(uri=uri, cid=cid).uri

Go

Same pattern as a like, with the app.bsky.feed.repost collection:

repost := &appbsky.FeedRepost{
  CreatedAt: time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339),
  Subject:   &comatproto.RepoStrongRef{Uri: uri, Cid: cid},
}
resp, _ := comatproto.RepoCreateRecord(ctx, client, &comatproto.RepoCreateRecord_Input{
  Repo:       client.AccountDID.String(),
  Collection: "app.bsky.feed.repost",
  Record:     &lexutil.LexiconTypeDecoder{Val: repost},
})

Parameter	Type	Description	Required
uri	string	The URI of the post	Yes
cid	string	The CID of the post	Yes

Un-reposting a post

Same as unlike, un-reposting a post requires only the post's URI, whose record we want to delete.

TypeScript

deleteRepost

  import { deleteRepost } from '@bsky/sdk'

  await client.call(deleteRepost, repostUri)

Python

client.delete_repost

  client.delete_repost(uri)

Go

Delete the repost record by its rkey, as with unliking:

rkey := uri[strings.LastIndex(uri, "/")+1:]
comatproto.RepoDeleteRecord(ctx, client, &comatproto.RepoDeleteRecord_Input{
  Repo:       client.AccountDID.String(),
  Collection: "app.bsky.feed.repost",
  Rkey:       rkey,
})

Parameter	Type	Description	Required
uri	string	The URI of the repost record to delete	Yes

Quote reposting

備考

For information on quote posts, see the Create a post tutorial.

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