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46 lines
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# btc-crawl
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Bitcoin node network crawler (written in golang).
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This is a for-fun project to explore the Bitcoin protocol and network.
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Current status:
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* JSON streaming is in place, and graceful shutdown.
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* ~~It crawls with all kinds of nice parameters but stores everything in memory
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until dumping a giant JSON blob at the end.~~
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* ~~It crawls from hard-coded values and spits a bunch of stuff to
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stdout.~~
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## Usage
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```
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$ go get github.com/shazow/btc-crawl
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$ btc-crawl --help
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...
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$ btc-crawl --concurrency 100 --output btc-crawl.json --verbose
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...
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```
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**Estimated crawl time:** Unknown.
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There should be under 10,000 active network nodes at any given time, according
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to [bitnodes.io](https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/). Each node returns around ~2,500
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known nodes, but usually only several have timestamps within the last hour.
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## Todo
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(In approximate order of priority)
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* Apply peer-age filter to results
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* Output using some space-conscious format. Right now the output file grows
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fairly quickly.
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* Namespace useful sub-packages properly (outside of `main`)
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* Fix race condition warnings.
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## License
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MIT (see LICENSE file).
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