GlimpSky - Bluesky Profile Viewer

GlimpSky is a lightweight web tool for exploring public Bluesky accounts: posts, likes, followers, and related account activity from public AT Protocol endpoints.

Why this exists

I wanted an easy way to inspect a profile beyond the default app view:

• show only original posts when needed (without reposts, replies, or quotes),
• search content with plain text or regex,
• search who a user replies to and which authors they like.

What you can do

• View posts and likes for any public account
• Hide reposts, replies, and quotes
• Filter by date range
• Search post text
• Search authors across post authors, reply targets, and quoted authors
• Use regex in both search fields with /pattern/flags
• Sort oldest-first (loads all content first when required)
• See account info: joined date, last active, last follow
• Open followers/following lists, mutuals, and blocking

Search behavior

• Plain text works by default
• Regex is optional and uses /pattern/flags format
• Example: /hello.*/i

Run locally

python3 -m http.server 8000

Open http://localhost:8000 in your browser.

Language smoke test

With the local server running, you can run a quick EN/SL routing and markup smoke test:

bash scripts/language-smoke.sh http://localhost:8000

Privacy and scope

• Uses publicly available Bluesky/AT Protocol data only
• No login required
• Static client-side app (no backend in this repo)

Known limits

• Blocked by cannot be reliably computed from public APIs alone without an external indexer
• Some likes/posts can be unavailable (deleted posts, deactivated accounts, or inaccessible records)

Data sources and credits

All data is fetched from public Bluesky APIs and AT Protocol PDS endpoints. Inspired by Clearsky for blocking-related features and Bluesky Likes by luizzeroxis for likes display patterns. Vibecoded with ChatGPT and Claude.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Contributing

Suggestions, issues, and pull requests are welcome.