DIDKit#

A small Ruby gem for handling Distributed Identifiers (DIDs) in Bluesky / AT Protocol

What does it do#

Accounts on Bluesky use identifiers like did:plc:oio4hkxaop4ao4wz2pp3f4cr as unique IDs, and they also have assigned human-readable handles like @mackuba.eu, which are verified either through a DNS TXT entry or a /.well-known/atproto-did file. This library allows you to look up any account's assigned handle using a DID string or vice versa, load the account's DID JSON document that specifies the handles and the PDS server hosting user's repo, and check if the assigned handle verifies correctly.

Installation#

gem install didkit

Usage#

Use the DIDKit::Resolver class to look up DIDs and handles.

To look up a handle:

resolver = DIDKit::Resolver.new
resolver.resolve_handle('nytimes.com')
 # => #<DIDKit::DID:0x00000001035956b0 @did="did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r", @type=:plc, @resolved_by=:dns>

This returns an object of DIDKit::DID class (aliased as just DID), which tells you:

the DID as a string (#to_s or #did)
the DID type (#type, :plc or :web)
if the handle was resolved via a DNS entry or a .well-known file (#resolved_by, :dns or :http)

To go in the other direction – to find an assigned and verified handle given a DID – use get_validated_handle (pass DID as a string or an object):

resolver.get_validated_handle('did:plc:ewvi7nxzyoun6zhxrhs64oiz')
 # => "atproto.com"

You can also load the DID document using resolve_did:

doc = resolver.resolve_did('did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd')
 # => #<DIDKit::Document:0x0000000105d751f8 @did=#<DIDKit::DID:...>, @json={...}>

doc.handles
 # => ["pfrazee.com"] 

doc.pds_endpoint
 # => "https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network"

There are also some helper methods in the DID class that create a Resolver for you to save you some typing:

did = DID.resolve_handle('jay.bsky.team')
 #  => #<DIDKit::DID:0x000000010615ed28 @did="did:plc:oky5czdrnfjpqslsw2a5iclo", @type=:plc, @resolved_by=:dns>

did.to_s
 # => "did:plc:oky5czdrnfjpqslsw2a5iclo" 

did.get_document
 # => #<DIDKit::Document:0x00000001066d4898 @did=#<DIDKit::DID:...>, @json={...}>

did.get_validated_handle
 # => "jay.bsky.team"

Configuration#

You can override the nameserver used for DNS lookups by setting the nameserver property in Resolver, e.g. to use Google's or CloudFlare's global DNS:

resolver.nameserver = '8.8.8.8'

Credits#

The code is available under the terms of the zlib license (permissive, similar to MIT).