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Reference materials for IPFS tools and implementations |
Looking for user and developer references for IPFS? Find them here.
The Gateway API provides implementation-agnostic HTTP interface for retrieving content-addressed data from IPFS with regular HTTP clients and libraries. Use it for future-proofing your applications.
Implementation and language specific interfaces can be used when HTTP Gateway API is not enough, or you need additional flexibility.
Kubo is the earliest and most widely used implementation of IPFS, written in Go.
Use it as:
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CLI tool Working in the terminal? Here's where you'll find Kubo's command-line interface (CLI) reference.
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HTTP RPC endpoint RPC API v0 reference for Kubo — control your node over HTTP using the same commands you can from the command line!
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Go library See Go API reference for Kubo, including the Go CoreAPI, the Go embedded client, and a Go client for interacting with Kubo over HTTP RPC API.
Helia is the next generation IPFS JavaScript implementation that applies lessons learned from js-ipfs to create a more modern, modular, and efficient codebase.
Learn more about Helia in the official GitHub repository. If you'd like to quickly get started developing with Helia, see the Helia examples repository.
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Development of the js-ipfs project has been discontinued in favor of Helia.
Because of this, js-ipfs content may be out of date, and will eventually be archived.
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