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NIP-45
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Event Counts
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`draft` `optional` `author:staab`
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Relays may support the `COUNT` verb, which provides a mechanism for obtaining event counts.
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## Motivation
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Some queries a client may want to execute against connected relays are prohibitively expensive, for example, in order to retrieve follower counts for a given pubkey, a client must query all kind-3 events referring to a given pubkey and count them. The result may be cached, either by a client or by a separate indexing server as an alternative, but both options erode the decentralization of the network by creating a second-layer protocol on top of Nostr.
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## Filters and return values
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This NIP defines a verb called `COUNT`, which accepts a subscription id and a filter as specified in [NIP 01](01.md).
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Counts are returned using a `COUNT` response in the form `{count: <integer>}`. Relays may use probabilistic counts to reduce compute requirements.
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Examples:
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```
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# Followers count
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["COUNT", "", {kinds: [3], '#p': [<pubkey>]}]
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["COUNT", "", {count: 238}]
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# Count posts and reactions
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["COUNT", "", {kinds: [1, 7], authors: [<pubkey>]}]
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["COUNT", "", {count: 5}]
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```
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