Feature Request: Expand whois to Include Non-Nominated Validators/Nodes

[GeoScobie]

Hi team,

First off, thank you for building and maintaining the polkadot-introspector tool! It’s been a great way for me to query and geopopulate active validators, and the whois functionality has been particularly useful for retrieving the active validator set and wallet addresses.

I’m curious if it would make sense to expand the whois functionality to include validators and nodes that are not currently nominated. This could provide a more comprehensive view of the network and be useful for analysis and monitoring purposes.

I’d appreciate any insight into:

Whether this is already possible within the current tool.

1. If not, how feasible it might be to implement such functionality.
2. Any guidance on where in the codebase this could be explored.
3. This could be a great addition for researchers and developers alike, and I’d be happy to test or contribute if needed!

Thanks for considering this, and looking forward to your thoughts.

Best regards,
Rob

[sandreim]

cc @AndreiEres

[Polkadot-Forum]

This issue has been mentioned on Polkadot Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://forum.polkadot.network/t/expanding-polkadot-introspector-whois-functionality/11500/2

[AndreiEres]

Hello, thank you for opening the issue.

If you'd like to explore the codebase, all the whois functionality is located in the whois folder.

I would appreciate a few examples of where you need this functionality and what information you require.