Content addressing and CIDs

[SgtPooki]

Description

it would be nice if the https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/content-addressing/#cid-conversion page had instructions on how to parse a CID.

Problem statement

I have a CID, bafyreihnpl7ami7esahkfdnemm6idx4r2n6u3apmtcrxlqwuapgjsciihy, and I am able to determine it's codec, multibase, multihash, etc, but I want to access the raw content stored within this CID. How do I do that?

Other resources

https://proto.school/anatomy-of-a-cid/04 has some information about the structure of a CID, and how you can "unwrap" a CID, but doesn't give explicit instructions and most steps in the process have to be deduced.

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Thanks for reporting this! This is something that we've started working on:

• Add CID conversion example with embed #1467
• Update JS examples to v1, add code sandbox #1476

#1449

https://bafybeieedkoyq4lndzqv6sfnqcm67lwklrk7yltfvz6aupnzluoby7ibxi.on.fleek.co/concepts/content-addressing/#cid-versions