Rust implementation of Nostr protocol.
If you're writing a typical Nostr client or bot, you may be interested in nostr-sdk.
toml
[dependencies]
nostr = "0.20"
tungstenite = { version = "0.18", features = ["rustls-tls-webpki-roots"]}
```rust,no_run use nostr::prelude::*; use tungstenite::{Message as WsMessage};
fn main() -> Result<()> { // Generate new random keys let my_keys = Keys::generate();
// or use your already existing
//
// From HEX or Bech32
// let my_keys = Keys::from_sk_str("hex-or-bech32-secret-key")?;
// Show bech32 public key
let bech32_pubkey: String = my_keys.public_key().to_bech32()?;
println!("Bech32 PubKey: {}", bech32_pubkey);
let metadata = Metadata::new()
.name("username")
.display_name("My Username")
.about("Description")
.picture(Url::parse("https://example.com/avatar.png")?)
.banner(Url::parse("https://example.com/banner.png")?)
.nip05("username@example.com")
.lud16("yuki@getalby.com");
let event: Event = EventBuilder::set_metadata(metadata).to_event(&my_keys)?;
// New text note
let event: Event = EventBuilder::new_text_note("Hello from Nostr SDK", &[]).to_event(&my_keys)?;
// New POW text note
let event: Event = EventBuilder::new_text_note("My first POW text note from Nostr SDK", &[]).to_pow_event(&my_keys, 20)?;
// Connect to relay
let (mut socket, _) = tungstenite::connect("wss://relay.damus.io").expect("Can't connect to relay");
// Send msg
let msg = ClientMessage::new_event(event).as_json();
socket.write_message(WsMessage::Text(msg)).expect("Impossible to send message");
Ok(())
} ```
More examples can be found in the examples/ directory.
This crate supports the wasm32 targets.
On macOS you need to install llvm:
shell
brew install llvm
LLVM_PATH=$(brew --prefix llvm)
AR="${LLVM_PATH}/bin/llvm-ar" CC="${LLVM_PATH}/bin/clang" cargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
NOTE: Currently nip03 feature not support WASM.
The following crate feature flags are available:
| Feature | Default | Description |
| ------------------- | :-----: | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| blocking | No | Needed to use NIP-05 and NIP-11 features in not async/await context |
| vanity | No | Enable vanity public key mining module |
| all-nips | Yes | Enable all NIPs |
| nip03 | No | Enable NIP-03: OpenTimestamps Attestations for Events |
| nip04 | Yes | Enable NIP-04: Encrypted Direct Message |
| nip05 | Yes | Enable NIP-05: Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers |
| nip06 | Yes | Enable NIP-06: Basic key derivation from mnemonic seed phrase |
| nip11 | Yes | Enable NIP-11: Relay Information Document |
| nip19 | Yes | Enable NIP-19: bech32-encoded entities |
| nip46 | Yes | Enable NIP-46: Nostr Connect |
| Supported | NIP |
|:----------:| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ✅ | 01 - Basic protocol flow description |
| ✅ | 02 - Contact List and Petnames |
| ✅ | 03 - OpenTimestamps Attestations for Events |
| ✅ | 04 - Encrypted Direct Message |
| ✅ | 05 - Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers |
| ✅ | 06 - Basic key derivation from mnemonic seed phrase |
| ✅ | 09 - Event Deletion |
| ✅ | 10 - Conventions for clients' use of e and p tags in text events |
| ✅ | 11 - Relay Information Document |
| ✅ | 12 - Generic Tag Queries |
| ✅ | 13 - Proof of Work |
| ✅ | 14 - Subject tag in text events |
| ✅ | 15 - End of Stored Events Notice |
| ✅ | 16 - Event Treatment |
| ✅ | 18 - Reposts |
| ✅ | 19 - bech32-encoded entities |
| ✅ | 20 - Command Results |
| ✅ | 23 - Long-form Content |
| ✅ | 25 - Reactions |
| ✅ | 26 - Delegated Event Signing |
| ✅ | 28 - Public Chat |
| ✅ | 33 - Parameterized Replaceable Events |
| ✅ | 36 - Sensitive Content |
| ✅ | 40 - Expiration Timestamp |
| ✅ | 42 - Authentication of clients to relays |
| ✅ | 46 - Nostr Connect |
| ✅ | 50 - Keywords filter |
| ✅ | 56 - Reporting |
| ✅ | 65 - Relay List Metadata |
This library is in an ALPHA state, things that are implemented generally work but the API will change in breaking ways.
This project is distributed under the MIT software license - see the LICENSE file for details
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