follow_theirs.py. Hamel Husain wrote this Python script on top of the atproto Python library for interacting with Bluesky, which lets you specify another user and then follows every account that user is following.
I forked it and added two improvements: inline PEP 723 dependencies and input()
and getpass.getpass()
to interactively ask for the credentials needed to run the script.
This means you can run my version using uv run
like this:
uv run https://gist.githubusercontent.com/simonw/848a3b91169a789bc084a459aa7ecf83/raw/397ad07c8be0601eaf272d9d5ab7675c7fd3c0cf/follow_theirs.py
I really like this pattern of being able to create standalone Python scripts with dependencies that can be run from a URL as a one-liner. Here's the comment section at the top of the script that makes it work:
# /// script
# dependencies = [
# "atproto"
# ]
# ///
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