This repository contains developer documentation for the Bluesky API (api.bsky.app), which is available to read at docs.bsky.app.

The atproto.com website, including the AT Protocol specifications, is versioned separately at https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto-website.

This website is built using Docusaurus, a modern static website generator.

For live-reloading development:

1. Clone this repo
2. Run npm install
3. Run the development server with npm start
4. Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser.

To output a build:

• run npm run build

This command generates static content into the build directory and can be served using any static contents hosting service.

We use a forked version of atproto-open-api-types to generate an OpenAPI schema from atproto lexicons. We use the docusaurus-openapi-docs plugin.

To generate OpenAPI types from atproto lexicons:

1. Run deno task run to generate a fresh OpenAPI spec to atproto-openapi-types/spec/api.json.
2. Run npx docusaurus-mdx-checker to see MDX compatibility.
3. Run npm run docusaurus gen-api-docs <id> to generate MDX docs from an OpenAPI spec. In this case, npm run docusaurus gen-api-docs bskyApi.

If you want to regenerate MDX docs from an updated api.json file, run npm run clear-and-gen-api-docs. This command clears the existing docs and replaces them with freshly generated docs.

The OpenAPI docs auto-update with the latest lexicon changes once a day.

Bluesky is an open social network built on the AT Protocol, a flexible technology that will never lock developers out of the ecosystems that they help build. With atproto, third-party can be as seamless as first-party through custom feeds, federated services, clients, and more.

If you're a developer interested in building on atproto, we'd love to email you a Bluesky invite code. Simply share your GitHub (or similar) profile with us via this form.

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Inline code examples, example data, and regular expressions are under Creative Commons Zero (CC-0, aka Public Domain) and copy/pasted without attribution.

Please see LICENSE.txt with reminders about derivative works, and LICENSE-CC-BY.txt for a copy of license legal text.