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Connect a Bluesky profile with an app password

Connect Bluesky with your handle and an app password, why your account password is refused, and what Bluesky posts can and cannot include.

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  1. Create an app password in Bluesky
  2. Connect the profile
  3. What you can post

Bluesky is the one network that needs no developer app: you connect with an app password that you create in Bluesky. Never use your Bluesky account password; SocialApp refuses it.

Create an app password in Bluesky

  1. In Bluesky, open the settings for app passwords.
  2. Add a new app password and give it a name you will recognise, such as the name of your workspace.
  3. Copy the password. It looks like xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx.

Connect the profile

  1. Open Accounts, then Connect Account.
  2. On the Bluesky card, choose Connect Profile.
  3. Enter your handle, for example yourname.bsky.social (a leading @ is fine), and the app password.
  4. Choose Connect.

The app password is stored encrypted and is never shown again. To reconnect later, enter a new app password for the same profile.

What you can post

  • Text of up to 300 characters; links in the text are counted short.
  • A link with a preview card.
  • Up to 4 images. Images over 1 MB are compressed to fit Bluesky's limit.

Videos and GIFs cannot be published to Bluesky yet; the composer says so before you schedule. Bluesky has no inbox and no analytics page in SocialApp.