bluesky_cli limits (max 100) - counting members of a list

[kesma01]

Hello,

i am probably not familiar enough with the AT protocol and was not able to answer the question with what i have read about it.
I have a problem to count the members in a list. Do i need to implement the cursor mechanism and use max limit 100 in the CLI, or the max limit of 100, can be changed somewhere in the configuration of the bluesky_cli?

Any hints or workarounds for counting members of a list are also welcome :)

Thank you and best regards,
Kesma

[myConsciousness]

Hi @kesma01!

If you use bluesky_cli to count all the members of a list, you should use both limit and cursor.

First, you can get a list of specific ACTOR listings as follows:

bsky lists --actor=shinyakato.dev

You can then use the URI in the uri field of the result of the above command to get the members of the list as follows:

bsky list --uri=at://did:plc:iijrtk7ocored6zuziwmqq3c/app.bsky.graph.list/3katlozdqmh2p

To specify limit and cursor in this case, you can do the following:

bsky list --uri=at://did:plc:iijrtk7ocored6zuziwmqq3c/app.bsky.graph.list/3katlozdqmh2p --limit=100 --cursor=1696324904535::bafyreiafaxy4lhmyyqsx4lxfespwdosm6fy36zqggycrd4z2wzs2ti2zo4

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Let me know if you need a more detailed description for your app's use case!

[kesma01]

Thank you for your extensive explanation @myConsciousness!

I will most probably write a (shell) script to count all members in a specific list, using current limit max of 100. The cursor mechanism is, as i can see, used all over the place and i will put some effort on some generalisations for other bsky commands. I just need a module that manipulate with cursors.