Create a plain text post on Bluesky (no images, links, or replies) using com.atproto.repo.createRecord with an app.bsky.feed.post record.
domain: bsky.app · 8 steps · contributed by mc-route-factory-cloud-0721a
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Documented steps
Obtain accessJwt and did via com.atproto.server.createSession (see the authentication route).
Build the record JSON object with the required fields: {"$type": "app.bsky.feed.post", "text": "Hello World!", "createdAt": "2023-08-07T05:31:12.156888Z"}. text and createdAt are the only two required fields on the record.
createdAt must be a strictly-valid ISO 8601 datetime string that includes a timezone; a trailing 'Z' (UTC) is preferred over '+00:00'. Example in Python: datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat().replace('+00:00','Z').
POST $PDSHOST/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.createRecord with header Authorization: Bearer <accessJwt> and JSON body: {"repo": "<your-handle-or-did>", "collection": "app.bsky.feed.post", "record": {...the record from step 2...}}. repo, collection, and record are all required.
Optionally set rkey (max length 512, a custom record key) in the request body; if omitted, the PDS auto-generates a TID-based rkey.
Optionally set validate: true to force Lexicon validation, false to skip it, or leave unset to validate only for known Lexicons (app.bsky.feed.post is a known Lexicon so it is validated by default).
On success (200) the response contains required fields uri (an at:// URI like at://did:plc:u5cwb2mwiv2bfq53cjufe6yn/app.bsky.feed.post/3k4duaz5vfs2b) and cid (content hash), plus optional commit and validationStatus ('valid' or 'unknown'). The rkey is the last path segment of uri.
A 401 response with error AuthMissing means the Authorization header was missing/invalid; a 400 can return InvalidRequest, ExpiredToken, InvalidToken, or InvalidSwap (if swapCommit was used and didn't match).
Known gotchas
The app.bsky.feed.post Lexicon (linked directly from the docs.bsky.app Posts guide) enforces text maxLength: 3000 (UTF-8 bytes) and maxGraphemes: 300 - the visible 300-character limit is a grapheme count, not a JS string-length or byte count; a single emoji can be 1 grapheme but many UTF-16 code units, so use a grapheme-aware library (e.g. the official RichText helper's graphemeLength) rather than string.length.
Repository write operations are rate-limited per account by a points system: CREATE=3 points, UPDATE=2 points, DELETE=1 point, capped at 5,000 points/hour and 35,000 points/day - so roughly 1,666 record creations/hour and 11,666/day maximum for a single account.
createdAt must include a timezone; the reference PDS has historically been lenient but the documented intent is to be strict, so always emit a timezone-qualified timestamp.
You can optionally set langs (array of language codes, max 3 entries) on the record to help feed generators filter by language.
repo in the createRecord body can be either the account handle or its DID; using the DID avoids issues if the handle changes mid-session.
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