This repository is a reimplementation of podping-hivewriter, except that it uses the Nostr protocol instead of the hive blockchain.
This implementation is in C# but nostr is incredibly simple and can be ported trivially to other languages and stacks.
There are 2 projects in this repository: a writer and listener.
The writer allows you to send podcast updates and offers a standalone one-time use command or running a zeromq that can receive urls to broadcast on demand.
The listener simply allows you to see a constant list of podcast updates since the application was started.
- Clone git repo
- Install dotnet 6 from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download
- To run the writer or listener, go into its directory, open a terminal and run
dotnet run, which will give you a set of commands and its options.
We are utilizing a custom kind for nostr events: 30500, and this fits under the NIP16 additional proposal: nostr-protocol/nips#40
For content, an optional hash of the current podcast rss content can be provided. This helps clients easily pre-emptively realise if they're already on the latest version without needing to pull to check after noticing a push.
There are 4 tags:
podcasttag, required, with the first value being the podcast guid, or the feed url if the podcast does not support podcast:guid yetfeedtag, required, with the first value being the feed url (note thatpodcastfield should always link to the original feed and this field would link to the current in case of a change)reasontag, optional, with the first value describing why this update occurred.mediumtag, optional, with the first value describing what medium this podcast is.