diff --git a/src/auto_archiver/archivers/generic_archiver/bluesky.py b/src/auto_archiver/archivers/generic_archiver/bluesky.py
index 821d777..7aa9c39 100644
--- a/src/auto_archiver/archivers/generic_archiver/bluesky.py
+++ b/src/auto_archiver/archivers/generic_archiver/bluesky.py
@@ -27,8 +27,20 @@ class Bluesky(GenericDropin):
         return result
 
     def extract_post(self, url: str, ie_instance: InfoExtractor) -> dict:
+        # TODO: If/when this PR (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/12098) is merged on ytdlp, remove the comments and delete the code below
+        # handle, video_id = ie_instance._match_valid_url(url).group('handle', 'id')
+        # return ie_instance._extract_post(handle=handle, post_id=video_id)
+
         handle, video_id = ie_instance._match_valid_url(url).group('handle', 'id')
-        return ie_instance._extract_post(handle=handle, post_id=video_id)
+        return ie_instance._download_json(
+            'https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.feed.getPostThread',
+            video_id, query={
+                'uri': f'at://{handle}/app.bsky.feed.post/{video_id}',
+                'depth': 0,
+                'parentHeight': 0,
+            })['thread']['post']
+
+
 
     def _download_bsky_embeds(self, post: dict, archiver: Archiver) -> list[Media]:
         """