Core API
The core API is the programmatic interface for IPFS, it defines the method signatures.
Required for compliant IPFS implementation
Everything defined here is required.
- version
- node
- id
- start
- stop
- block
- get
- put
- stat
- object - Basic manipulation of the DAG
- data
- get
- links
- new
- patch
- put
- stat
- refs - Listing of references. (Essentially, walking around the graph).
- local
- repo - Basic manipulation of the repo
- init
- stat
- gc
- config get
- config put
- pin - Basic manipulation of the pin set
- add
- ls
- rm
- log
- level
- tail
Extensions
Everything defined here is optional
- name (ipns)
- name publish
- resolve
- dns
- resolve
- tar
- add
- cat
- tour
- list
- next
- restart
- files
- add
- cat
- get
- stat - Statistics about everything
- bw
- mount
- bootstrap
- add
- list
- rm
- bitswap
- stat
- unwant
- wantlist
Tooling on top of the Core + Extentions
Everything defined here is optional, and might be specific to the implementation details (like running on the command line).
- commands
- update
- init - sugar around ipfs repo init
- config
- edit
- replace
- show
- daemon
- diag
- net
- sys
Network API specifics that bubble up from libp2p API
- ping
- dht
- findpeer
- findprovs
- get
- put
- query
- swarm
- addrs
- addrs local
- connect
- disconnect
- filters
- filters add
- filters rm
- peers
- records (iprs)
- put
- get