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ipfsd-ctl

Control an ipfs node daemon using Node.js

Install

Install:

npm install --save ipfsd-ctl

Usage

IPFS daemons are already easy to start and stop, but this module is here to do it from JavaScript itself.

// Start a disposable node, and get access to the api
// print the node id, and kill the temporary daemon

// IPFS_PATH will point to /tmp/ipfs_***** and will be
// cleaned up when the process exits.

var ipfsd = require('ipfsd-ctl')

ipfsd.disposableApi(function (err, ipfs) {
  ipfs.id(function (err, id) {
    console.log(id)
    process.exit()
  })
})

If you need want to use an existing ipfs installation you can set $IPFS_EXEC=/path/to/ipfs to ensure it uses that.

For more details see https://ipfs.github.io/js-ipfsd-ctl/.