Consumer Service

Overview

The Consumer service is responsible for connecting to the Bluesky firehose, processing incoming posts, and storing them in MongoDB for later use by the feed generator.

Pre-Built Docker Image: git.aykhans.me/bsky/feedgen-consumer:latest

Features

Connects to the Bluesky firehose websocket
Processes and filters incoming posts
Stores relevant post data in MongoDB
Includes data management via cron jobs
- Implements collection size limits
- Prunes older data to prevent storage issues

Command Line Options

-cursor: Specify the starting point for data consumption
- last-consumed: Resume from the last processed data (default)
- first-stream: Start from the beginning of the firehose
- current-stream: Start from the current position in the firehose

Running the Service

Docker

docker build -f cmd/consumer/Dockerfile -t bsky-feedgen-consumer .
docker --env-file config/app/.consumer.env --env-file config/app/.mongodb.env run bsky-feedgen-consumer

Local Development

task run-consumer
# or
make run-consumer