rud.is

Short post just to get the internets to index that I posted a repo with a small Bash script I’ve been using to resolve Bluesky/ATproto handles (like hrbrmstr.dev) to did:plc identifiers. Not sure why I did do this ages ago tbh.

Code is here but it’s small enough to include inline as well:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -euo pipefail

# Function to resolve Bluesky handle to DID:PLC
resolve_bluesky_handle() {
  local handle="${1:-}"

  # Remove leading '@' if present
  handle=$(echo "${handle}" | sed -e 's/^@//')

  # Check if curl is installed
  if ! command -v curl &>/dev/null; then
    echo "Error: curl is not installed."
    return 1
  fi

  # Check if jq is installed
  if ! command -v jq &>/dev/null; then
    echo "Error: jq is not installed."
    return 1
  fi

  api_url="https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.identity.resolveHandle"
  response=$(curl --silent --header "Accept: application/json" "${api_url}?handle=${handle}")

  # Check if the curl command was successful
  if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
    echo "Error: Failed to fetch data from Bluesky API."
    return 1
  fi

  # Extract the DID from the response
  did=$(echo "${response}" | jq -r '.did')

  # Check if jq command was successful
  if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
    echo "Error: Failed to parse JSON response."
    return 1
  fi

  # Check if DID is empty
  if [[ -z "${did}" ]]; then
    echo "Error: DID not found in the response."
    return 1
  fi

  echo "${did}"
}

# Check if exactly one argument is provided
if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 <handle>"
  exit 1
fi

resolve_bluesky_handle "${1}"