Building a Nostr Relay Monitor with BigBrotr
There’s a wealth of data you can extract from a Nostr relay — why settle for less? Build a fully NIP-66 compliant monitor in under 80 lines of Python.
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3 posts with the tag “nostr”
Streaming Events from Nostr Relays
Dumping every event from a Nostr relay should be simple — pick your filters, set a time window, iterate. With BigBrotr’s stream_events, it is.
Inside BigBrotr: Building a Distributed Relay Observatory for the Nostr Network
A technical deep dive into BigBrotr’s architecture — eight services, ~18,000 lines of Python, 25 stored procedures, 11 materialized views, and the design decisions behind a Nostr relay observatory.