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Support large file uploads to IPFS

See original GitHub issue

Outline

Currently attempting to upload a large file to IPFS through EmbarkJS api (see uploading file in documentation) will get the browser stuck. The goal of this task is to fix the code so it can support large file uploads to decentralized systems, namely IPFS.

Acceptance Criteria

Uploading a file larger than 1GB using EmbarkJS.Storage.uploadFile as specified in the documentation should not get the browser stuck and the file should be able to be downloaded afterwards.

Issue Analytics

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:22 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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lidelcommented, Nov 1, 2018

Thank you for bringing this to my attention! The example was really old, I created PR to update it: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api/pull/884

In short, when working with bigger files you don’t want to create a Buffer from file contents (like here), instead you create a stream and pass it to ipfs-api (see example from my PR).

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lidelcommented, Oct 19, 2018

Hey @kziemianek you may want to try ipfs-api v25.0.0, it shipped with a fix (https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api/pull/868) that should make 1GB+ uploads possible.