Reply to a post
Comment on LinkedIn, Reddit, and Bluesky rows, and reply on X.
Reply to a post
Comment on a post from a content row. Put the post's URL in Comment on
and the reply in Message Text, approve the row, and run blowhorn comment:
blowhorn content upsert --payload '{"Platform":"linkedin","Profile":"kate","Comment on":"https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:123/","Message Text":"Great post!","Approved?":"yes"}'
blowhorn comment --platform linkedin --profile kate --dry-run
blowhorn comment --platform linkedin --profile kate
blowhorn comment covers LinkedIn, Reddit, and Bluesky. It only ever
comments: a row whose Comment on is not a post on the row's own
platform, or whose Message Text is empty, is skipped and stays pending.
Reply on X
X replies ride with blowhorn post, not blowhorn comment. Set the
tweet's URL in Comment on and the reply in Message Text, then run
post for that profile and platform:
blowhorn post --platform x --profile kate
Reply without a row
--target with --message comments once, with no row read or marked:
blowhorn comment --platform linkedin --profile kate --target "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:123/" --message "Great post!"
Name one profile: ad-hoc mode refuses --profile all. For a Slack thread
reply, use blowhorn post --target with a Slack message link instead
(Send a Slack message).
Run one or the other over the same rows
blowhorn post also acts on Comment on rows, so a reply row left
pending is picked up by whichever runs first. Queue reply rows and run
comment; or let the post run take them with everything else. Do not
run both over the same rows expecting each to take half.
post is not as strict as comment. It comments only when Comment on
is a post on the row's own platform and Message Text is set; otherwise
it publishes the row as an ordinary post. A mistyped Comment on URL, or
on LinkedIn any Destination at all, sends the reply text out as a
public post. Run reply rows through comment when you cannot vouch for
every URL.
Hacker News comments are rows too, but they publish through post, on
Post to Hacker News. There, once Comment on
holds anything, the row is a comment and never a submission.
Related
- Amplify an existing post - reposts and reactions, the other use of a URL on a row.
- Post content - running
blowhorn postin general. - Post to Hacker News - Hacker News comments.
- Send a Slack message - Slack thread replies.