{"id":52216,"date":"2026-04-15T16:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=52216"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:50:25","slug":"new-tool-release-bluesky-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/15\/new-tool-release-bluesky-live\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tool Release: Bluesky Live"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Bluesky<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Somewhat recently Bluesky added the ability to mark\/set yourself as Live on Bluesky and link out from Bluesky to a given service. At the moment that is a short list of services, but includes Twitch<\/a> and Stream.place<\/a> among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you were to set yourself as Live manually on Bluesky, you are maxed to 4 hours, so you would need to remember and come back to bump your time or manually remove the status if you ended before 4 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given Bluesky oAuth<\/a> is a thing, and because App Passwords<\/a> are not tooooo much fun with work with IMO, so I built a tool to implement Bluesky oAuth as an adventure in how Bluesky does oAuth (thats likely gonna be a separate post as it’s pretty interesting and in depth).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m still tweaking\/optimising how my code runs as there are some caching layers that could be added to speed up operations, but I digress!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AND SO via the powers of Twitch oAuth and Twitch eventsub, pair the two services together to do Bluesky Live AUTOMATICALLY! (Anyone using Stream.place it’s native to the platform)<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"MAGIC!\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The only drawback is that Bluesky oAuth is a smidge brittle, as outlined in this Issue on GitHub I authored<\/a>, even when you have your Client configured as confidential. AND there are not a lot of scopes (basically two….), so oAuth has to be a little hungry at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well what does it do?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First of all it handles the 4 hour max issue, by “bumping” the expiration time automatically whilst the Twitch channel is live. As well as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you go live on Twitch<\/h4>\n\n\n\n