noscat

Quick and dirty websocket client for nostr relay scripting

Examples

Using interactive input

$ noscat wss://relay.damus.io
["REQ", "RAND", {"kinds": [1], "limit": 8}]

Using in piped scripts

$ echo '["REQ", "RAND", {"kinds": [1], "limit": 8}]' | nostcat wss://relay.damus.io

Using jq to query Nostr JSON events and select the content values

$ echo '["REQ", "RAND", {"kinds": [1], "limit": 8}]' |
nostcat wss://relay.damus.io |
jq '.[2].content'

Output info log messages which can assist with debugging

$ echo '["REQ", "RAND", {"kinds": [1], "limit": 8}]' | RUST_LOG=info nostcat wss://relay.damus.io

Getting started

Using Cargo to install (requires ~/.cargo/bin to be in PATH)

$ cargo install nostcat

Building from source

$ git clone https://github.com/blakejakopovic/nostcat
$ cargo build --release