Is there a possibility to request mentions like requesting the AuthorFeed

[martinentner]

Hello,

next to requesting the AuthorFeed, i'd also like to request all the posts containing a mention of "my" account.

The only way i found so far is the notifications endpoint but this endpoint

• also delivers likes, follows etc. and especially when it comes to likes it can be thousands which leads to a lot of unnecessary requests just to find all the latest mentions
• does not deliver embed on top-level, just the embed within the record which contains way fewer data. In some cases there are workarounds to still get the most important data about the attachment in other cases - especially when it comes to embedded posts - it requires another request to fetch the data because only the "ID"s are provided.

In case there is no dedicated endpoint it would already help to have a filter possibility for the notifications endpoint against the reason and in the very best case, additionally the top-level embed as part of the response.

Best

Martin

[bnewbold]

Great question!

This is not a functionality in the Bluesky API (bsky.app Lexicons) right now.

Filtering the notifications based on reason has been requested by a couple folks and we'll probably add something there.

cc: @pfrazee for thoughts/status on filtering notifications

I think for your specific use-case the best option would be extending the post search API to allow a filter query on posts which mention a specific account. That would work for any account (which may have some moderation and harassment considerations to take in to account), and would likely handle complexities like handle/DID changes.

The whole team is pretty focused on large tasks related to federation and scaling, and I would guess a new functionality like this is unlikely to get shipped until that is complete, unfortunately. I think you would need to iterate through the full notification feed, and then re-fetch any relevant mention records separately, for now.

[treeder]

Is there a way to do this with searchPosts yet or is listNotifications still the only way? I tried an empty q parameter with mentions parameter, but it doesn't work.