delete_nostr_notes.md

Delete All Nostr Notes

This sends a delete request to all relays that have your data. This is a best effort and will likely not work well enough to actually delete everything, or possibly anything. A lot of relays do not respect delete requests.

1. First download a list of relays:

curl -o relays.json https://api.nostr.watch/v1/online

2. Now compile nostr-tool (compiling is required because of recent changes I made that are not released yet).

3. Run the script below, replacing {NSEC} with your nsec.

# Read the JSON file and extract URLs into an array
mapfile -t urls < <(jq -r '.[]' relays.json)

# Loop through each URL in the array and execute the command in the background
while true; do
  for url in "${urls[@]}"; do
    nostr-tool -r "$url" -p {NSEC} delete-profile --events-only --kinds 1 --kinds 4 --kinds 6 --kinds 7 --kinds 1984 --kinds 9734 --kinds 9735 --kinds 30311 --kinds 1311 --kinds 30023 --kinds 30078 --kinds 1063 --timeout 60 &
  done

  # Wait for all background processes to complete
  wait

  echo "Starting new loop iteration..."
  sleep 10

done

4. Give permissions

chmod +x script.sh #or whatever you named it

5. Run

./script.sh

Depending on how many notes you have, this may take awhile. It won't be perfect but its an attempt. Check your profile on a few nostr clients to see if it's done a good enough job (make sure to delete cached data otherwise events may still be there).