Find follow record for specific actor

Searches through your complete follow records to find the specific record for a given user. This is essential for unfollow operations since you need the record key (rkey) from the original follow record to delete it.

Usage

find_follow_record(follow_records, actor_did)

Arguments

follow_records

List. Output from get_all_follow_records containing all your follow record objects

actor_did

Character. The DID (decentralized identifier) of the user you want to find the follow record for

Value

The complete follow record object if found, \codeNULL if the user is not in your follows. The record contains:

uri

Character. Record URI containing the rkey needed for unfollowing

cid

Character. Content identifier

value

List. Record metadata including subject DID and creation time

See also

get_all_follow_records, unfollow_actor, extract_follow_subjects

Other follow-management: extract_follow_subjects(), follow_actor(), get_all_follow_records(), unfollow_actor()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Authenticate first
auth <- get_token("your.handle.bsky.social", "your-app-password")
token <- auth$accessJwt
my_did <- auth$did

# Get all your follow records
all_follows <- get_all_follow_records(my_did, token)

# Find a specific user's profile to get their DID
target_profile <- get_profiles("example.bsky.social", token)
target_did <- target_profile$did

# Find the follow record for that user
follow_record <- find_follow_record(all_follows, target_did)

if (!is.null(follow_record)) {
  message("Found follow record for user!")

  # Extract the rkey needed for unfollowing
  rkey <- basename(follow_record$uri)
  message("Record key: ", rkey)

  # Unfollow the user
  result <- unfollow_actor(my_did, rkey, token)
  if (!is.null(result)) {
    message("Successfully unfollowed user!")
  }
} else {
  message("You are not following this user")
}

# Batch processing: check if you follow multiple users
users_to_check <- c("user1.bsky.social", "user2.bsky.social", "user3.bsky.social")
check_profiles <- get_profiles(users_to_check, token)

follow_status <- data.frame(
  handle = check_profiles$handle,
  following = sapply(check_profiles$did, function(did) {
    !is.null(find_follow_record(all_follows, did))
  })
)
print(follow_status)

# Conditional unfollowing based on criteria
followed_dids <- extract_follow_subjects(all_follows)
followed_profiles <- get_profiles(followed_dids[1:50], token)  # Sample for demo

# Unfollow users with very low activity (< 5 posts)
inactive_users <- followed_profiles[followed_profiles$postsCount < 5, ]

for (did in inactive_users$did) {
  record <- find_follow_record(all_follows, did)
  if (!is.null(record)) {
    rkey <- basename(record$uri)
    unfollow_actor(my_did, rkey, token)
    message("Unfollowed inactive user: ", inactive_users$handle[inactive_users$did == did])
    Sys.sleep(1) # Rate limiting
  }
}
} # }