nano-ipfs-store

nano-ipfs-store

Store strings/buffers on IPFS. 3.1K gzipped.

This is a fork of ipfs-mini, with some slight changes based on what I needed for a project.

Methods

ipfs.add : (Uint8Array | String) -> Promise CID // Uploads Uint8Array or String to IPFS
ipfs.get : CID -> Promise Uint8Array            // Gets Uint8Array from IPFS
ipfs.cat : CID -> Promise String                // Gets String from IPFS
ipfs.cid : (Uint8Array | String) -> Promise CID // Gets the CID without performing the upload

Example

const IPFS = require("nano-ipfs-store");
const ipfs = IPFS.at("https://ipfs.infura.io:5001");
const assert = require("assert");
 
(async () => {
 
  // Upload raw data
  const data1 = new Uint8Array([0,1,3,7,15,31,63,127,255]);
  const cid1 = await ipfs.add(data1);
 
  // Recover it from returned CID
  const data2 = await ipfs.get(cid1);
  assert(JSON.stringify(data1) === JSON.stringify(data2));
 
  // Generate CID without uploading
  const cid2 = await ipfs.cid(data1);
  assert(cid1 === cid2);
 
  // Upload string
  assert(await ipfs.cat(await ipfs.add("foobar")) === "foobar");
 
  console.log("ok");
 
})();

A note

I'd just like to thank the guys behind IPFS and IPFS-mini, the hackers on IRC, but, in special, Kubuxu on #ipfs at freenode.net, who, at 5am, took some time to show me live how to find the CID of a blob. Thank you.