Bluesky Alerts

Alerts for every account you follow. New post. New posts are usually announced within a couple of minutes.

On this page

Arclo watches a account and posts an announcement when something new appears. The engine, the message editor, the filter rules and the behavior options are the same on every platform. See Social Alerts for those. This page covers what is specific to Bluesky.

Adding a account

Bluesky handle
Paste the handle or the profile URL. For example: jay.bsky.team.
Channel
Where the alert is posted. A forum channel makes each alert its own thread.

What it announces

EventOn by default
New postYes

This platform emits one kind of event, so the event-type block is hidden on its page.

How fast

New posts are usually announced within a couple of minutes.

Placeholders

PlaceholderBecomes
{creator}The creator's display name
{description}The post's text
{url}Link to the post
{creator_avatar}Creator avatar URL
{thumbnail}Preview image URL
{platform}The platform's name

Filter fields

The fields a filter rule on this platform can match against:

  • Title or description (text)
  • Title (title)
  • Description (description)
  • Author (author)
  • Link URL (url)

See also

Still stuck? Ask in the support server: somebody there has almost certainly configured this before.