Primal Caching Service Save

Overview

Primal’s caching service for Nostr connects to the specified set of relays, collects all events in real time, stores them locally, and makes them available to nostr clients through a web socket-based API.

Usage

Running the caching service if you have nix package manager installed:

nix develop -c sh -c '$start_primal_caching_service'

Running the caching service if you have docker installed:

docker run -it --rm -v `pwd`:`pwd` -w `pwd` -p 8801:8801 -e PRIMALSERVER_HOST=0.0.0.0 nixos/nix nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' develop -c sh -c '$start_primal_caching_service' 

Log files for fetched messages and sqlite database files will be located in var sub-directory by default.

Monitor fetching (press enter to stop monitoring):

Fetching.mon()

To safely stop the process:

Fetching.stop(); close(cache_storage); exit()

API requests

Read app.jl for list of all supported arguments.

Examples:

["REQ", "amelx49c18", {"cache": ["net_stats"]}]
["CLOSE", "amelx49c18"]

["REQ", "p0xren2axa", {"cache": ["feed", {"pubkey": "64-hex digits of pubkey id"}]}]

["REQ", "vqvv4vc6us", {"cache": ["thread_view", {"event_id": "64-hex digits of event id"}]}]

["REQ", "ay4if6pykg", {"cache": ["user_infos", {"pubkeys": ["64-hex digits of pubkey id"]}]}]

["REQ", "2t6z17orjp", {"cache": ["events", {"event_ids": ["64-hex digits of event id"]}]}]

["REQ", "1uddc0a2fv", {"cache": ["user_profile", {"pubkey": "64-hex digits of pubkey id"}]}]