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Post your RSS feed to Bluesky

Get your episodes and articles onto Bluesky as they're published. ShortSync posts each new feed item with its image, title and a clickable link, compressing the image if it's over Bluesky's 1 MB limit.

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Free plan · Set up once · Publish or save drafts

How to set it up

  1. 1

    Connect Bluesky

    Connect Bluesky in ShortSync with your handle; Bluesky's own sign-in screen opens to approve it.

  2. 2

    Paste the feed

    On ShortSync's Upload page, open Repurpose and create a workflow. Under Post from, pick YouTube or podcast and paste the RSS or Atom feed URL, or a podcast's Apple Podcasts link. ShortSync shows the latest items so you can check it's the right feed.

  3. 3

    Pick Bluesky and how to post

    Under Post to, select your Bluesky account (and any others you want). Choose Publish right away, or Save drafts to check each post first.

  4. 4

    Let it run

    About 15 minutes after a new item appears in the feed, ShortSync posts it to Bluesky. Items from before you created the workflow aren't posted as new.

What the post looks like on Bluesky

  • A post with the image attached and the title and link as its text.
  • ShortSync marks the link so it's clickable, which plain Bluesky API posts don't do on their own.

Other ways to do it

All of these work. ShortSync suits you if you'd rather not build or host anything, or want the same post on several platforms.

A self-hosted RSS-to-Bluesky tool

Several open source tools post feeds to Bluesky with an app password. Free, if you run one on a server and keep it updated.

Zapier, Make, Pabbly or IFTTT

Each has a template that watches a feed and posts to the platform. Flexible if you already pay for one, but you build and maintain the workflow and its message yourself, and each extra platform is another step.

Good to know

  • Items need an image or a video to be posted; items with neither are skipped.
  • For podcasts, each episode uses its own artwork, or the show's cover when it has none. Video podcasts post the video.
  • An old posts workflow can work through the items already in the feed, a few a day in the time slots you pick.
  • Bluesky allows 300 characters; a very long title is shortened to fit.
  • Bluesky takes images up to 1 MB. Larger artwork is compressed automatically before posting.
Read the setup guide

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. Bluesky only makes links clickable when the post marks them, and ShortSync marks every link it posts.
Any RSS or Atom feed whose items have an image or a video: podcasts (paste the Apple Podcasts link or your host's RSS feed), YouTube channels, news sites and blogs that include images. Spotify listening links don't work, since Spotify doesn't expose a feed; use the RSS feed from your podcast host.
About every 15 minutes. A new item is posted on the next check after it appears in the feed.
Repurposing workflows are on every ShortSync plan, Free included. Each published post counts as one upload on your plan, like posting it yourself; drafts don't count. If you run out of uploads, new posts wait as drafts instead.

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