gregwhite on Nostr: Yeah I’ve been thinking about that too. I started building a relay explorer so that ...
Yeah I’ve been thinking about that too.
I started building a relay explorer so that I could inspect what’s in a relay (and eventually query for things like communities or relay lists or other items that help with discovering more Nostr folks)
It makes me think I’ll wanna add the ability to not just inspect a relay but discover relays.
Would that aid in the effort of balkanisation?
I started building a relay explorer so that I could inspect what’s in a relay (and eventually query for things like communities or relay lists or other items that help with discovering more Nostr folks)
It makes me think I’ll wanna add the ability to not just inspect a relay but discover relays.
Would that aid in the effort of balkanisation?
quoting note1yaq…af5gBuilt a simple relay explorer client: https://github.com/gregorygmwhite/nostr-relay-explorer
It runs on the user's browser so it'll also respect their access to relays thar are\ behind a VPN or other network-based access control.
Currently it's pretty simple, just allows you to enter a relay, an author's pubkey (optional), and a selection of kinds of events (optional).
I wanted to have this so I could see more about what's in my private relay and see what's missing from before I set up my private relay.
Hoping to clean it up a bit and host it for folks to use if anyone is interested. But for now you can run it locally pretty easily (instructions in the readme).
Feedback and contributions welcome!
Future plans:
1. Add support for better handling of limits for filter results.
2. Support filtering by tags (answering questions like "who have I been in threads with)
3. Add utilities/options to take on events that come back from a query (like being able to select one of the events and broadcast them to a specific relay, like my private one 😉)
