Bluesky

Skeeters, rejoice! Buttondown lets you connect your Bluesky account to your newsletter in Buttondown. This lets you automatically cross-post your newsletter emails to Bluesky. This function is powered by our automations feature.

To automatically cross-post your newsletter emails to Bluesky, you have to complete two steps:

1. Connect your Bluesky and Buttondown accounts
2. Posting newsletters to Bluesky

First, you must connect your Bluesky and Buttondown accounts. Here's how:

Bluesky requires you to generate an app-specific password that Buttondown can use to connect to your Bluesky account. Here's how:

1. In Buttondown, navigate to Settings and click Integrations.
2. Find the "Bluesky" integration option and click Configure. The Bluesky configuration panel opens.
3. Click Generate password. Bluesky opens in a new tab.
4. Click Add app password and follow the prompts to create a new app password.
5. Important: When you are prompted to copy the app password, do it and save it somewhere secure. You will not be able to view the password after you dismiss this screen.

Now you can use the app-specific password you created to connect your Buttondown and Bluesky accounts. Here's how:

1. In Buttondown, navigate to Settings and click Integrations.
2. Find the "Bluesky" integration option and click Configure. The Bluesky configuration panel opens.
3. Enter your Bluesky username in the appropriate field.
4. Paste your App-specific password in the appropriate field.
5. Click Save changes.

To share your newsletters to Bluesky, you can create an automation that posts your newsletters to Bluesky whenever you send them. To do this, create a new Automation, or just click the Automation banner below:

The simplest and most common use case is to create an automation that posts your newsletters to Bluesky whenever you send them. Here's how:

1. Navigate to the Automations page and click New. The "New automation" panel opens.
2. (Optional) Give your automation a human-readable "Name."
3. Set the Trigger to when an email is sent.
4. Set the Action to Create a Bluesky post.
5. (Optional) Configure any other fields to customize the automation. If you leave these fields blank, the automation will post to your Bluesky account as soon as you send a new newsletter email.
6. Click Save changes.

To enable the new automation, either click Unpause in the automation panel, or click to enable the automation's toggle in the Automations page.