Kaspa P2P Crawler

This is a repository for research purposes with a limited (read: wrong) implementation of the Kaspa P2P protocol. The main product of this effort is a map of the nodes available to the public.

Running

For the first run, you should create a virtual env and install the dependencies.

python -m venv venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

To run the crawler, run the following command inside the virtual env.

./kaspa_crawler.py -v --token=<ipinfo token>

To see the available options, run

./kaspa_crawler.py -h

Creating a map

Install the extra dependencies

pip install geopandas pandas matplotlib
./scripts/plot_map.py data/nodes.json

Too Many Open Files / No Sufficient Resources Errors

To handle errors due to too many open files, increase the ulimit of your system, then run the script.

ulimit -n 22000

Updating Proto Files

Requires wget. Run for the root directory of the repository.

bash scripts/sync_protos.sh