pynostr

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Python library for for Nostr.

This library is using coincurve instead of secp256k1, so pynostr can be used on windows and is a fork from python-nostr.

This library works with python >= 3.7

Installation

pip install pynostr

with tornado support

pip install pynostr[tornado]

The necessary coincurve can be installed on android inside termux:

pkg update
pkg install build-essential
pkg install binutils
pkg install python-cryptography
pip install coincurve --no-binary all

Usage

Generate a key

from pynostr.key import PrivateKey

private_key = PrivateKey()
public_key = private_key.public_key
print(f"Private key: {private_key.bech32()}")
print(f"Public key: {public_key.bech32()}")

Connect to relays

from pynostr.relay_manager import RelayManager
from pynostr.filters import FiltersList, Filters
from pynostr.event import EventKind
import time
import uuid

relay_manager = RelayManager()
relay_manager.add_relay("wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net")
relay_manager.add_relay("wss://relay.damus.io")
filters = FiltersList([Filters(kinds=[EventKind.TEXT_NOTE], limit=100)])
subscription_id = uuid.uuid1().hex
relay_manager.add_subscription_on_all_relays(subscription_id, filters)
time.sleep(1.25)
while relay_manager.message_pool.has_notices():
    notice_msg = relay_manager.message_pool.get_notice()
    print(notice_msg.content)
while relay_manager.message_pool.has_events():
    event_msg = relay_manager.message_pool.get_event()
    print(event_msg.event.content)
relay_manager.close_all_relay_connections()

Connect to relays using tornado

from pynostr.tornado_relay import TornadoRelay
from pynostr.filters import FiltersList, Filters
from pynostr.event import EventKind
from pynostr.base_relay import RelayPolicy
from pynostr.message_pool import MessagePool
import tornado.ioloop
import time
import uuid

message_pool = MessagePool(first_response_only=False)
policy = RelayPolicy()
io_loop = tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.current()
r = TornadoRelay(
    "wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net",
    message_pool,
    io_loop,
    policy
)
filters = FiltersList([Filters(kinds=[EventKind.TEXT_NOTE], limit=100)])
subscription_id = uuid.uuid1().hex

r.add_subscription(subscription_id, filters)
io_loop.add_callback(r.start)
io_loop.start()

time.sleep(1.25)
while message_pool.has_notices():
    notice_msg = message_pool.get_notice()
    print(notice_msg.content)
while message_pool.has_events():
    event_msg = message_pool.get_event()
    print(event_msg.event.content)

Publish to relays

import json
import ssl
import time
import uuid
from pynostr.event import Event
from pynostr.relay_manager import RelayManager
from pynostr.filters import FiltersList, Filters
from pynostr.message_type import ClientMessageType
from pynostr.key import PrivateKey

relay_manager = RelayManager()
relay_manager.add_relay("wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net")
relay_manager.add_relay("wss://relay.damus.io")
time.sleep(1.25) # allow the connections to open

private_key = PrivateKey()

filters = FiltersList([Filters(authors=[private_key.public_key.hex()], limit=100)])
subscription_id = uuid.uuid1().hex
relay_manager.add_subscription_on_all_relays(subscription_id, filters)
event = Event("Hello Nostr")
event.sign(private_key.hex())

relay_manager.publish_event(event)
time.sleep(1) # allow the messages to send
while relay_manager.message_pool.has_events():
    event_msg = relay_manager.message_pool.get_event()
    print(event_msg.event.to_dict())
relay_manager.close_all_relay_connections()

Reply to a note

from pynostr.event import Event
reply = Event(
  content="Sounds good!",
)
# create 'e' tag reference to the note you're replying to
reply.add_event_ref(original_note_id)
# create 'p' tag reference to the pubkey you're replying to
reply.add_pubkey_ref(original_note_author_pubkey)
reply.sign(private_key.hex())

Send a DM

from pynostr.event import Event, EventKind
dm = Event(kind=EventKind.ENCRYPTED_DIRECT_MESSAGE)
dm.encrypt_dm(private_key.hex()
  recipient_pubkey=recipient_pubkey,
  cleartext_content="Secret message!"
)
dm.sign(private_key.hex())

Test Suite

Set up the test environment

Install the test-runner dependencies:

pip3 install -r test-requirements.txt

Then make the pynostr python module visible/importable to the tests by installing the local dev dir as an editable module:

# from the repo root
pip3 install -e .

Running the test suite

Run the whole test suite:

# from the repo root
pytest

Run a specific test file:

pytest test/test_this_file.py

Run a specific test:

pytest test/test_this_file.py::test_this_specific_test

Running tests with tox

Install tox

pip install tox

Run tests

tox

Pre-commit-config

Installation

$ pip install pre-commit

Using homebrew:

$ brew install pre-commit

$ pre-commit --version
pre-commit 2.10.0

Install the git hook scripts

$ pre-commit install

Run against all the files

pre-commit run --all-files
pre-commit run --show-diff-on-failure --color=always --all-files

Update package rev in pre-commit yaml

pre-commit autoupdate
pre-commit run --show-diff-on-failure --color=always --all-files