👻🦋 Post Random Ghost Blog to Bluesky

Fetch a random post from your Ghost blog’s sitemap and publish it to your Bluesky feed on a schedule or on demand.

Features

• Reads all post URLs from your Ghost sitemap (sitemap-posts.xml)
• Picks one at random each run
• Authenticates and posts via the Bluesky AT Protocol client
• Fully configurable via Action inputs

Usage

1. Add the Action to your repo

Create a folder .github/actions/post-ghost and put both:

• action.yaml
• scripts/post_random_ghost.py (from earlier)

2. Configure Secrets

Go to Settings → Secrets and add:

• BSKY_HANDLE – your Bluesky username
• BSKY_PASSWORD – your Bluesky password

3. Example workflow

name: 🥝 Post Random Ghost Blog to Bluesky

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 16 * * *'     # every day at 16:00 UTC
  workflow_dispatch:         # allow manual trigger

jobs:
  post:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Post random blog link
        uses: ./.github/actions/post-ghost
        with:
          handle: ${{ secrets.BSKY_HANDLE }}
          password: ${{ secrets.BSKY_PASSWORD }}
          sitemap-url: https://www.gojiberries.io/sitemap-posts.xml

Inputs

Name	Description	Required	Default
handle	Your Bluesky handle (username)	✅
password	Your Bluesky password	✅
sitemap-url	Full URL to your Ghost blog’s sitemap-posts.xml	✅	https://yourblog.com/sitemap-posts.xml

How it works

1. Fetch the sitemap (XML) and extract all URLs
2. Choose one at random
3. Login to Bluesky via atproto-client
4. Post a status like