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R package atrrr by jbgruber — release notes from GitHub.

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The R client for Bluesky adds a firehose and stops assuming Bluesky is the server

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◆Current state
atrrr wraps the AT Protocol for R, covering posting, search, profiles, lists, direct messages and starter packs. The latest release adds an experimental firehose implementation and allows connecting to personal data servers other than Bluesky's — Eurosky is the example given. Earlier releases built out the posting surface: videos, multiple images, link preview cards, hashtags, and ggplot2 objects posted directly.
◆Where it's heading
Two years of work made atrrr a capable REST client for one network. This release starts undoing that second part. The firehose is a different access mode — a stream rather than a request — which is what researchers doing collection at scale need, and PDS-agnosticism means the package addresses the protocol rather than the company. The rest of the changelog is steadily maintenance-shaped: repeated httr2 compatibility work, endpoint changes tracked as they happen.
◆Prediction
The firehose is labelled experimental, so the next release most likely stabilises it rather than opening another front — though the notes give no detail on what remains unfinished.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    Experimental firehose and support for non-Bluesky PDS

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    An experimental firehose implementation arrives, along with support for personal data servers other than Bluesky's — Eurosky is named. fetch_preview is exported for finer control over link previews, and a thread-posting bug is fixed.

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  2. 1y ago

    Direct messages and starter-pack queries

    Direct message functions and starter-pack queries arrive, get_user_info moves to the actor profile endpoint, and make_request is simplified for forward compatibility with httr2.

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  3. 1y ago

    Posting and auth fixes for httr2 1.1.0

    Fixes for remote image and video posting and an auth() issue introduced by httr2 v1.1.0.

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  4. 1y ago

    Video posting, multi-image support, and list retrieval

    List and starter-pack retrieval functions arrive, video posting and multi-image posts are supported with automatic compression of oversized images, and search_post gains parameters. Also adapts to httr2 1.1.0.

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  5. 1y ago

    Language, tag and label options on posts

    Posts gain language, tag and label options, and preview card handling is fixed for multi-link cases.

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  6. 2y ago

    Preview cards, hashtags, and direct ggplot2 posting

    Automatic link preview cards, hashtag search and posting, a skeet_shot screenshot function, and support for posting ggplot2 objects directly — the last being the addition that makes the package useful to R users specifically rather than as a generic API wrapper.

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