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

psky link

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.

FAQ Database 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.

My list

or feel free to request a feature