Why files are UNPINNED after published?

[Marionette-yixuan]

I use cid = ipfs_api.publish(file_name) to publish a file to IPFS,
and ipfs-cluster-ctl status cid shows that the file is unpinned on every peer.
I tried ipfs_api.pin(cid) but it's not helping.

What should I do?

[abrichr]

@Marionette-yixuan can you please share how you resolved this issue? Thank you! 🙏

[Marionette-yixuan]

@Marionette-yixuan can you please share how you resolved this issue? Thank you! 🙏

@abrichr

File download with ipfs_api works well, you can call shell command to upload file.
Or you can upload and download files through http request, which I think is a much better way.
Codes I use to upload and download:

# upload
response = requests.post(f'http://127.0.0.1:5001/api/v0/add', files=data)
cid = response.json()['Hash']

# download
response = requests.post(f'http://127.0.0.1:5001/api/v0/cat?arg={cid}')
data = response.content

You may change the port to 9095 if using ipfs-cluster.