SKYFEED CRASH COURSE LETS GOOOOOO

Ok so you know NOTHING about programming (like me) and you wanna make a feed for your fandom/ship/pairing???  Here’s how you make one,

When you open skyfeed (skyfeed.app) after logging in, click feed builder

You will be greeted with this!

1. This tells the algo to search the WHOLE website for the past 24 hours. Can be changed for other options.

2. Tells algo to not include in search results if a reply. I keep this one so that I only have initial posts.

3.This is the MOST MOST important part.

Here you will tell the algo the words to look for.

Here are the two things you need:

1. \bsearchword\b
   
2. \bsearchword\b|\bsearchword\b
   
   

So the "\b" acts like a bracket, so that the word as it's spelled is searched.

example: cat would search for the three letters c-a-t next to each other in all words so you'd get - catastrophe, locate

But if you put the brackets (\b) around it, it would only look for “cat” as a stand alone word.

| - this vertical slash acts as an "or" function.

So you will have a string of words you’re telling it to look for like this:
                
                \bvash\b|\bwolfwood\b|\bvash the stampede\b|\bNico\b 

Which basically tells it to look for:

                (vash) or (wolfwood) or (vash the stampede) or (Nico)


VERY IMPORTANT

At the end of your string of search words DO NOT put another “|” . As this basically means “or” you’re telling it to search for nothing!


I haven’t found out how long this string of search words can be…yet

The RegEx box has Case Sensitive turned off automatically, so the algo will search for the words regardless of case

Excellent! You now have your search terms!!

PART TWO: EXCLUDING SEARCH RESULTS


So you have your feed full of the stuff you want! But maybe you don’t want this feed to contain a certain ship/character.

Here’s how to do it:

MAKE SURE YOUR NEW REGEX BOX GOES UNDERNEATH YOUR OLD ONE

Use this to move it if it’s not

Type out the terms/words you would like excluded from the search, just like the first time, example:
                
                \blegato\b|\bjulai\b|\broberto\b|\bknives\b 

CLICK THE INVERT BOX

Now your results should have posts containing these words excluded!!

There are lots of other things you can play around with which I don't have the knowledge to explain properly lmao. Have a tinker!

Here’s my KRBKKR feed as an example 😀

When you think you’re done click here:



Give it a fun lil description, and you can upload a lil PFP for it too!:



OK so you built it but how do you see it?!?!?!?!?

Go back to bluesky and go to your profile:

And that’s it! I am not very well versed in this AT ALL this was brute force learning, so if problems come up Google is probably a better answer than I could be :’D