How to send a post with hashtags?

[Murray2015]

Hi, I'm trying to create a post with a hashtag, which I think I don't need to do anything special to get to work. But they don't work - the hashtags don't post as hashtags; they are plain text. Example below:

    bsky_client = Client()
    bsky_client.login(bsky_username, bsky_password)
    bsky_client.send_post("I love #cats", langs=["en-UK"])

Posts "I love #cats", but as plain text not a hashtag. I don't know if this is expected behaviour, in which case, could someone please point me to an example of how to make this work? Otherwise, it may be a bug 🙂

[MarshalX]

Hi, you should work with facets (rich text). Here you can read more about it: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/post-richtext

Here is how to use SDK`s helper to make it easy:

from atproto import client_utils
text = client_utils.TextBuilder().text('I love ').tag('#cats', 'cats')
client.send_post(text)

Read more about TextBuilder: https://atproto.blue/en/latest/atproto_client/utils/text_builder.html

[Murray2015]

Thanks @MarshalX, that works a treat!