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https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-blob-store

An abstract-blob-store compatible implementation built using IPFS as the storage backend
https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-blob-store

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An abstract-blob-store compatible implementation built using IPFS as the storage backend

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-blob-store
Owner: ipfs-shipyard
License: mit
Created: 2015-06-02T17:46:07.000Z (over 9 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2019-03-22T20:14:44.000Z (over 5 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-04-22T02:58:53.206Z (5 months ago)
Language: JavaScript
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Size: 1.62 MB
Stars: 56
Watchers: 21
Forks: 8
Open Issues: 1
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE

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README

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> An abstract-blob-store compatible implementation built using IPFS as the storage backend

Implements the [abstract-blob-store](https://github.com/maxogden/abstract-blob-store), using IPFS for storage.

![](https://github.com/maxogden/abstract-blob-store/raw/master/badge.png)

## Install

```js

npm install ipfs-blob-store

```

## Usage

`ipfs-blob-store` uses the [IPFS Files API](#) to create the abstraction of a mutable filesystem over snapshots of Merkle DAGs (per mutation). You'll need to use the Files API directly to get the `/ipfs/Qm...` address of the filesystem root so that other IPFS nodes can retrieve it.

It requires an IPFS node to run - you can either specify a host/port combination to connect to a remote daemon, pass an instance of [`ipfs`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ipfs) or nothing at all to have the blob store manage it's own IPFS node.

### Self-managed IPFS node

```JavaScript

const ipfsBlobStore = require('ipfs-blob-store')

const store = await ipfsBlobStore()

store.exists('/my-file.txt', (error, exists) => {

  // ...

})

```

### Pre-configured IPFS node

```JavaScript

const ipfsBlobStore = require('ipfs-blob-store')

const IPFS = require('ipfs')

const node = new IPFS({

  // some config here

})

node.once('ready', () => {

  const store = await ipfsBlobStore({

    ipfs: node

  })

  store.exists('/my-file.txt', (error, exists) => {

    // ...

  })

})

```

### Remote IPFS daemon

```JavaScript

const ipfsBlobStore = require('ipfs-blob-store')

const store = await ipfsBlobStore({

  host: '127.0.0.1',

  port: 5001

})

store.exists('/my-file.txt', (error, exists) => {

  // ...

})

```

### Options

```JavaScript

var options = {

  ipfs: null, // an instance of ipfs or ipfs-api

  port: 5001,   // default value

  host: '127.0.0.1', // default value

  baseDir: '/', // default value

  flush: true  // default value

}

const store = await ipfsBlobStore(options)

```

### API

See [abstract-blob-store](https://www.npmjs.com/package/abstract-blob-store) for the blob store API.

## Contribute

Feel free to join in. All welcome. Open an [issue](https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-blob-store/issues)!

This repository falls under the IPFS [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md).

### Want to hack on IPFS?

[![](https://cdn.rawgit.com/jbenet/contribute-ipfs-gif/master/img/contribute.gif)](https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/contributing.md)

## License

MIT