laanwj on Nostr: yes that was it ! there were various packages, but they tended to be either ...

yes that was it ! there were various packages, but they tended to be either unmaintained, or severely under-documented (sometimes with examples that just didn't work! that's one of the most terrible sins of documentation)

rust-nostr is great and i would use it for a rust project, in python i found it a bit circuitous with the ffi binding stuff

with stock pip websocket-client and secp256k1 modules what i wanted to do is ~30 lines, and it helped me learn how nostr worked internally too 😀