Hellooo I’ve been developing a platform where you can see all the Zebra nodes that already exist, including their data and status. I used Ziggurat as the base for this platform, but I’ve been making a lot of changes and filters to improve it.
Right now, the platform can discover and display all the Zebra nodes. I’m updating it because I also want to add support for zcashd nodes. My goal is to create something similar to Bitnodes, but focused on Zcash.
I don’t have a lot of money to build this project, I used my GitHub student credits and my own money to buy the VPS and the domain but I think this is something that the community needs. It also helps me to start learning more about Zcash and the ecosystem.
If you have something like an interesting function I could add, or if you have some suggestions I can solve, please let me know. If you have ideas for next features, you can tell me because this is a platform for all of the Zcash community.
Helloo well to make sure that the information about the nodes is correct we found this image that @dismad published about the Zcash nodes so we used this to verify the information and you can actually see that our numbers are so close.
We have fewer nodes displayed because we use some filters to make sure that the nodes that you are watching are the “best nodes” so the filters make sure that the nodes are not in the Flux network. Then we add another parameter to make sure that you are not going to see the testnet nodes or late nodes and we dont show you desynchronized nodes and actually another parameter that we add is filtering the unknown agents. That is why we have few nodes but these nodes actually are the best nodes and right now you are seeing only the Zebra nodes but we are going to add the zcashd nodes in these weeks.
And thankiu so much for the information about the donations links I am going to check that and about the code I am going to publish the code in this week because this is going to be open source but I want to make a solid product and add the zcashd nodes first.
Hello, this is an update for this thread. In this month we are going to add the zcashd nodes. We are actually making this because zcashd nodes need more filters and give more information, so I am making like a investigation to make sure that all is correct.
Hello, thanks for the observation. We are checking that, but I can confirm the crawler supports zebrad 3.1.0 with no problem. We search for Zebra in the user_agent and the handshake works perfectly. I will publish the repo on GitHub this week and tag you so you can see the code.
And where is the code? Is it open source, or not?
