I made this a little while ago as I was getting zaps to an old address, but just pushed up some changes. It's just a python script that queries all queries all online relays, identifies relays with old events, rebroadcasts the latest verified kind 0 event to those relays and reports the status of the rebroadcast.
Going to update it to make it a bot so people can update by DM'ing it
https://github.com/UTXOnly/metadata_updater
Lol python. Perfect. Exactly what I imaged when I said it would be pretty easy to make a tool like this. 🐍 🐍
Very useful script! It scanned 650 relays and found 30 with outdated profile data and synced them, all in under 30 seconds!
One note for anyone who decides to use this tool: I recommend running it several times to make sure all relays are properly synced.
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I’ll have to try it out. Are there any security concerns with doing something like that?
Not really that I can think of. You’re just finding relays that have stale metadata and rebroadcasting the latest note found, you don’t need to provide your private key at all.
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