YouTubeBluesky
YouTube to Bluesky

Post new YouTube videos to Bluesky automatically

Bring your uploads to your Bluesky followers. ShortSync posts each new video's thumbnail with its title and a clickable link, about 15 minutes after it goes up, and can post the same announcement to X, Threads and Mastodon.

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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 your YouTube channel

    On ShortSync's Upload page, open Repurpose and create a workflow. Under Post from, pick YouTube or podcast and paste your channel link (youtube.com/@name) or a playlist link. ShortSync shows the latest videos so you can check it found the right channel. No YouTube sign-in needed.

  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 video shows up in the channel's feed, ShortSync posts it to Bluesky. Videos 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 script

Open source RSS-to-Bluesky tools work with YouTube's feed if you're comfortable running one on a server and keeping 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

  • ShortSync never downloads YouTube videos: each post links to the video on YouTube.
  • YouTube's feed lists a channel's latest 15 videos, so an old posts workflow can share up to those 15.
  • Any public channel or playlist works, including one you run for a client.
  • 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 a link clickable when the post marks it, and ShortSync does that for every link it posts.
No. Each post is the thumbnail, title and link, so people watch on YouTube and your views count there. To post the video natively to TikTok, Reels and Shorts, upload the file to ShortSync and schedule it to every platform at once.
ShortSync checks the feed about every 15 minutes, and YouTube's feed can take a few minutes to list a new upload, so expect the post within about half an hour.
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.

YouTube to Bluesky, on autopilot

Free plan, official platform APIs, publish or save drafts.

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