Damus
utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 profile picture
utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻
@utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻
Introducing: Nostr Archives
The new and improved nostr band



Nostr Archives is a free and open source full archival node for nostr that enables users, clients and agents to browse and fetch data from the nostr network.

For Nostriches:

- Provides a beautiful interface at nostrarchives.com to browse stats and historical notes and data.

- a Google like search experience where notes are ranked by author trust, engagement, recency and so on.

For Client Developers:

- Provides over 30 relay feed endpoints (!!) and rest API endpoints to generate trending feeds by timeframe and engagement type, top notes by authors, follow counts and more

- a scheduler relay at scheduler.nostrarchives.com, simply send any future dated event there and it will be sent on time.

- an indexer relay at indexer.nostrarchives.com, which holds people's follow lists, relay lists and profile data - exactly what you need to bootstrap an outbox client

A real time client leaderboard, to build some more competitive spirit and have better insight into what's working and what isn't.

Tell your agent to Read more at nostrarchives.com/docs

Supporting the project

The goal of this project is to level up the UX for all of nostr.

Every nostrich benefits from being able to find their old notes and discover new people and content.

Every client can benefit from better search, better outbox support and better relay feeds.

If you believe in the goals of this project, please consider a donation to help cover the costs of the servers. I need help, I cannot cover it all by myself.



https://github.com/barrydeen/nostrarchives-api

Disclaimers:
- The data is not complete and never will be, it is impossible to crawl and catch every event
- To save space, only notes from established accounts are saved, meaning they have credible followers
- My site is heavily censored, I censor illegal and adult, spammy bots and accounts that do not have sufficient trust. If you don't like that please spin up your own instance. The code is free but my server is not.
- I have no idea what to expect in terms of server load, so bear with me especially early days, this is v0.1.0 ok!
4547❤️68🚀10🧡9❤️8💜8🔥6
Gigi · 2w
👀👀👀
Caesar · 2w
Noice
Matt · 2w
Awesome work and very responsive - couple of things I noticed - found myself, ordered posts by most engagement and while the output looks likely realistic it didn't display the actual numbers for comments, reacts and zaps etc - The other thing I noticed was when looking through notes with loads of...
Laeserin · 2w
Can I just keep using your trending relay, or is the API result very different?
Laeserin · 2w
Hosting fees are nuts. Will probably only go way up from here.
Gzuuus · 2w
Amazing! The cherry on top would be negentropy 🧡
James Jesus Angleton Paranoia Culture - Paralysis creation excessive suspicion · 2w
"Interesting approach to Nostr archival—curious how this handles metadata vs raw event storage. Reminds me of the Iran War timeline analysis I was reading, where structured data made all the difference in reconstructing events. Solid infrastructure could prevent similar fragmentation in crisis rep...
kidwarp · 2w
👏 👏 👏 👏 Nice work sir
Gigi · 2w
bro you're killing it so hard I love it 🔥🧡
Zaikaboy · 2w
Mate, do you ever sleep?
Sync · 2w
🔥🔥🔥🔥 woop woop 🙌 Thank you good sir 🤘
Sats McDood · 2w
Idk what this is but I miss nostr band and I wanna support AI slop 🫂
Fabio Krauss · 2w
Pretty cool! Is there a way to get the historical events in bulk?
τέχνη · 2w
Can we search only for notes from a specific person? I’m having trouble finding some of my older ones
Handled · 2w
This is great for us old users! 🔥 I’ll try out the search in my build and let you know. Thanks for sharing 🚀
qNemo · 2w
I'm a big fan of clarity, and of nice aesthetics, so I like this a lot!
Pip the WoT guy · 2w
Awesome work mate. I like your API structure. I am designing a set of endpoints that constitute a protocol so users can switch providers. Think blossom but for web of trust. Did you consider signing the responses? Pros are the fact that responses become auditable and providers are not above the we...
falsefaucet · 2w
Dope
🟠 isolabellart · 2w
🫂👏
nout · 2w
Can I upload all my events into the archive? :)
Kamo Weasel · 2w
This is the way.
James Jesus Angleton Paranoia Culture - Paralysis creation excessive suspicion · 2w
Fascinating project—archival nodes are crucial for Nostr’s long-term resilience. The interface looks clean, though I wonder how it handles event pruning vs. full replication. On a different note, I was just reading about Iran’s escalation timeline—relevant given how decentralized networks be...
OutdoorBTC · 2w
beautiful!!
RTC · 2w
tell me what to do. Ie Im a pleb, I get the idea Nostr is the future, but I dont know how Nostr works, tell me why I need u and what to do. Thanks
Brisket · 2w
I'm just using the Advanced Search & there doesn't seem to be a way to get the event ID.
James Jesus Angleton Paranoia Culture - Paralysis creation excessive suspicion · 1w
"Archival nodes like Nostr Archives are critical for preserving decentralized data integrity—especially as geopolitical tensions escalate. Just read a deep dive on how information warfare could play out in a hypothetical Iran conflict; archives become both targets and safeguards. https://theboa...