Unfollow a user on Bluesky Social

Removes a follow relationship between your account and another user on Bluesky Social. This is equivalent to clicking the "Unfollow" button on a user's profile. Requires the record key of the follow relationship.

Usage

unfollow_actor(my_did, rkey, token)

Arguments

my_did

Character. Your decentralized identifier (DID) obtained from get_token response

rkey

Character. Record key of the follow relationship to delete. Can be obtained from get_all_follow_records or by parsing the URI from follow_actor response

token

Character. Authentication token from get_token

Value

An httr2 response object confirming the deletion, or NULL if the unfollow operation fails.

See also

follow_actor, get_all_follow_records, find_follow_record

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

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 to find the one to delete
all_follows <- get_all_follow_records(my_did, token)

# Find the record for a specific user
target_profile <- get_profiles("example.bsky.social", token)
target_record <- find_follow_record(all_follows, target_profile$did)

if (!is.null(target_record)) {
  # Extract record key from URI (after the last slash)
  rkey <- basename(target_record$uri)

  # Unfollow the user
  result <- unfollow_actor(my_did, rkey, token)

  if (!is.null(result)) {
    message("Successfully unfollowed user!")
  }
}
} # }