IPFS Plugin

Heya! Awesome library! Transloadit hits again 😃 I’m long user and supporter of node-formidable which was created by @felixge, stating it was created for Transloadit. And it’s pretty awesome, still, after so many years. Strongly believe that it should be rewritten, but anyway.

I’m playing with the API and looks great and easy. I’m thinking to try to create IPFS plugin, but documenting it here for reminder and if anyone else want it.

const upload = (buff, opts) => {
  const options = Object.assign({
    permanent: false,
    protocol: 'https',
    host: 'ipfs.infura.io',
    port: 5001
  }, opts)

  const ipfs = IpfsApi(options)

  ipfs.files.add(buff).then((result) => {
    const hash = result[0].hash
    const url = `https://ipfs.io/ipfs/${hash}`
    console.log('step 1', url)
      
    // behind option called `permanent: true`?
    if (options.permanent === true) {
      ipfs.pin.add(hash).then((res) => {
        console.log('step 2', res[0].hash)
      })
    }
  })
}

Also would be great to support upload from url which in turn is pretty easy with ipfs.util.addFromUrl

const ipfs = IpfsApi({
  protocol: 'https',
  host: 'ipfs.infura.io',
  port: 5001
})

ipfs.util.addFromURL('https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/5038030')
.then(console.log)

related is https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api/issues/674 - for adding support for pin option to addFromURL utility

[sponnet]

Hey @tunnckoCore ,

I did some experimenting with it - and what works really well is just using the XHRUpload plugin for that:

    const XHRUpload = require("@uppy/xhr-upload");

    uppy.use(XHRUpload, {
      endpoint: "https://ipfs.infura.io:5001/api/v0/add",
      formData: true,
      metaFields: []
    });

    uppy.on("upload-success", (file, body) => {
        console.log(body.Hash); // is the IPFS hash of the uploaded file
    });

This uploads to IPFS - and you get all the features of the XHRUpload plugin like progress monitoring etc.

Kudos for the super nice uppy project !

[tunnckoCore]

Ookey, but one more thing. How can we direct all to the XHRUpload so that all files from all the sources will be uploaded to the IPFS?

Sweeeeeet! 🎉 Passing the Infura to serverUrl works. Just thought it won’t that’s why i commented.