Nip17 Pipe

This command line tool can be used with NAK to test sending and receiving of NIP17 DMs over Nostr.

Requirements for example

• nak command line tool

Example

Note that the nak command line tool uses the NOSTR_SECRET_KEY environment variable to authenticate with the relay.

Sending

export NOSTR_PUBLIC_KEY=pubkey of RECEIVER
export NOSTR_SECRET_KEY=SECRETkey of SENDER

nip17pipe send -m "Hello Nip17" -r $NOSTR_PUBLIC_KEY |nak event --auth wss://example.relay.com

Receiving

export NOSTR_SECRET_KEY=pubkey of RECEIVER
export NOSTR_PUBLIC_KEY=pubkey of RECEIVER

nak req --stream --auth -k 1059 -p $NOSTR_PUBLIC_KEY --stream wss://example.relay.com | nip17pipe receive