Nostr Web Client

Does anyone provide REST API access for nostr events? Say, I need a follower count for a particular npub.

Im not running a relay and Claude is having trouble implementing this feature using NDK. I thought it was something easy but I guess not.

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Gigi 9mo ago

To build that you would need to build up an up-to-date, *global* view of nostr, which is not only an anti-pattern but quite literally impossible.

You can try (and people do) but because there is no central server, the follower count will always be wrong.

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Yuri Yerofeyev 9mo ago

I’ll try to cache only the last 90 days worth of kind:3 events and use that. I only need an approximate follow count, so this seems reasonable enough.

Yuri Yerofeyev 9mo ago

Hm, no, that’s not how it works, it seems . Lol