Multi-hash

Multi-hash encoder/decoder. Only supports sha256 multi-hash (the IPFS default) for now; will add more soon.

Usage

$ npm install multi-hash

To use in Node.js, simply require it:

var multihash = require("multi-hash");

A minified, browserified file dist/multihash.min.js is included for use in the browser. Including this file attaches a multihash object to window:

<script src="dist/multihash.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Multi-hash includes encode and decode functions. encode accepts a 32-byte buffer or hex-encoded string, and converts it to a base58-encoded multi-hash string.

var hex = "4afeb08a2bf63b8e42f4b67bd92dbf7e4a23f991c7acf0236a9d1c04462db278";

var ipfsHash = multihash.encode(hex);
// ipfsHash: QmPH4nmLYxgWyq9FqpzvxAEPZ5ZdwGZjmvusLqPDCk7mu1

decode accepts a base58-encoded multi-hash string, and converts it to a 32-byte buffer with the multi-hash prefix removed.

var buf = multihash.decode(ipfsHash);
// buf: <Buffer 4a fe b0 8a 2b f6 3b 8e 42 f4 b6 7b d9 2d bf 7e 4a 23 f9 91 c7
//              ac f0 23 6a 9d 1c 04 46 2d b2 78>

Tests

Unit tests are included in test/, and can be run using Mocha:

$ mocha