Pinata

The new all-in-one Pinata SDK

Quickstart

View the full documentation here

1. Install

npm i pinata

Import and initialize the SDK in your codebase with the following variables

• Pinata API Key JWT
• Pinata Gateway Domain

import { PinataSDK } from "pinata";

const pinata = new PinataSDK({
  pinataJwt: "PINATA_JWT",
  pinataGateway: "example-gateway.mypinata.cloud",
});

The PINATA_JWT is a secret key, be sure to initialize the SDK in a secure environment and practice basic variable security practices. If you need to upload from a client environment, consider using signed JWTs

2. Upload a File

import { PinataSDK } from "pinata";

const pinata = new PinataSDK({
  pinataJwt: process.env.PINATA_JWT!,
  pinataGateway: "example-gateway.mypinata.cloud",
});

async function main() {
  try {
    const file = new File(["hello"], "Testing.txt", { type: "text/plain" });
    const upload = await pinata.upload.public.file(file);
    console.log(upload);
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
}

await main();

This will return an object like the following:

{
  id: "0195a5c4-242f-7c01-bee8-f34a9e8e804b",
  user_id: "87ef31fe-519b-4ffe-90d9-987771247827",
  group_id: null,
  name: "hello.txt",
  cid: "bafkreid7qoywk77r7rj3slobqfekdvs57qwuwh5d2z3sqsw52iabe3mqne",
  created_at: "2025-03-17T20:20:50.057Z",
  size: 12,
  number_of_files: 1,
  mime_type: "text/plain",
  vectorized: false,
  network: "public",
}

3. Retrieve a File

Use the cid or from the upload to fetch a file

import { PinataSDK } from "pinata";

const pinata = new PinataSDK({
  pinataJwt: process.env.PINATA_JWT!,
  pinataGateway: "example-gateway.mypinata.cloud",
});

async function main() {
  try {
    const data = await pinata.gateways.public.get("bafkreibm6jg3ux5qumhcn2b3flc3tyu6dmlb4xa7u5bf44yegnrjhc4yeq");
    console.log(data)
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
}

main();

View the full documentation here

Developing

git clone https://github.com/PinataCloud/pinata
cd pinata
npm install

Run Build

npm run build

Run Tests

npm run test