⚠️ ATTENTION ⚠️

For this library to work on both nodejs and the browser, it depends on a old version of js-ipfs-api to avoid a browserify issue with later versions

For a very lightweight browser-only library, check out browser-ipfs

Otherwise if using with node.js or a browser via webpack or <script\>, you probably want the most recent stable js-ipfs-api

ipfs.js

Wrapper for node-ipfs-api

Browser friendly

Run npm install ipfs-js

Or reference dist/ipfs.min.js inside a <script /> to expose the global ipfs

Example

1) Set IPFS CORS access

   ipfs config --json API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Origin '["*"]'
   ipfs config --json API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Methods '["PUT", "GET", "POST"]'
   ipfs config --json API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Credentials '["true"]'

2) Start IPFS

   ipfs daemon

3) Upload example directory

git clone https://github.com/ConsenSys/ipfs.js && cd ipfs.js

For non-default ipfs configurations, you can run ./example.url to ipfs add -r example and print the local gateway's url

4) Open IPFS gateway

Navigate to the url echoed from ./example.url in the browser, or run ./example.url | xargs open to open it on OSX

Methods

ipfs.setProvider({host: 'localhost', port: '5001'})

• localhost and 5001 are the defaults when calling without arguments
• is also equivalent to ipfs.setProvider({host: '/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5001'})

ipfs.setProvider(require('ipfs-api')('localhost', '5001'))

node.js compatibility for ipfs.js

ipfs.add(textOrBuffer, callback)

ipfs.add("Testing...", function(err, hash) {
	if (err) throw err; // If connection is closed
	console.log(hash); 	// "Qmc7CrwGJvRyCYZZU64aPawPj7CJ56vyBxdhxa38Dh1aKt"
});

ipfs.cat(hash, callback)

ipfs.cat("Qmc7CrwGJvRyCYZZU64aPawPj7CJ56vyBxdhxa38Dh1aKt", function(err, buffer) {
	if (err) throw err;
	console.log(buffer.toString()); 	// "Testing..."
});

ipfs.catText(hash, callback)

ipfs.cat("Qmc7CrwGJvRyCYZZU64aPawPj7CJ56vyBxdhxa38Dh1aKt", function(err, text) {
	if (err) throw err;
	console.log(text); 	// "Testing..."
});

ipfs.addJson(json, callback)

ipfs.catJson(hash, callback)

ipfs.api.* - all methods from node-ipfs-api

ipfs.utils.base58ToHex(base58)

ipfs.utils.hexToBase58(hex)