noscat

Quick and dirty websocket client for nostr relay scripting

Examples

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

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

Using jq to query Nostr JSON events and select the content values shell $ echo '["REQ", "RAND", {"kinds": [1], "limit": 8}]' | nostcat wss://relay.damus.io | jq '.[2].content'

Output info log messages which can assist with debugging shell $ 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) shell $ cargo install nostcat

Building from source shell $ git clone https://github.com/blakejakopovic/nostcat $ cargo build --release