Bluesky Profile

{
  "avg_likes_recent": 9122,
  "created_at": "2023-04-12T04:53:57.057Z",
  "description": "official Bluesky account (check username👆)\n\nBugs, feature requests, feedback: [email protected]",
  "did": "did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur",
  "followers": 35233416,
  "following": 17,
  "handle": "bsky.app",
  "name": "Bluesky",
  "posts_count": 867,
  "recent_posts": [
    {
      "author": "nsousanis.bsky.social",
      "author_name": "Nick Sousanis",
      "created_at": "2026-10-10T19:19:54.753Z",
      "likes": 4842,
      "quotes": 66,
      "replies": 73,
      "reposts": 999,
      "text": "Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!",
      "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/nsousanis.bsky.social/post/3mxk7gsrfxs2w"
    },
    {
      "author": "pixelatedboat.bsky.social",
      "author_name": "pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”",
      "created_at": "2026-10-11T06:28:42.288Z",
      "likes": 8691,
      "quotes": 7,
      "replies": 45,
      "reposts": 1674,
      "text": " Australopithecus 3 million years ago:",
      "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/pixelatedboat.bsky.social/post/3mxlespeluk2w"
    }
  ],
  "source": "Bluesky public API (AT Protocol)",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app"
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.vextorium.com/v1/bluesky-profile' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"handle":"bsky.app","posts":5}'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://api.vextorium.com/v1/bluesky-profile' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"handle":"bsky.app","posts":5}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.003 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.003" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.003 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.vextorium.com%2Fv1%2Fbluesky-profile&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.vextorium.com/v1/bluesky-profile", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "handle": "bsky.app",
    "posts": 5
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.003 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.003"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://api.vextorium.com/v1/bluesky-profile",
        json={
            "handle": "bsky.app",
            "posts": 5,
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)