dat-portal v1.1.0

dat-portal

A configurable in-memory Dat-to-HTTP gateway, so you can visit Dat archives from your browser.

If you want a browser that can visit Dat archives, check out Beaker.

Install

To get the dat-portal command for running your own gateway, use npm:

npm install -g dat-portal

Usage

Run dat-portal to start a gateway server that listens on port 3000. You can also configure it! Print usage information with dat-portal -h:

$ dat-portal -h
dat-portal

Options:
  --version       Show version number                                  [boolean]
  --config        Path to JSON config file
  --port, -p      Port for the gateway to listen on.             [default: 3000]
  --dir, -d       Directory to use as a cache.
                                            [string] [default: "~/.dat-portal"]
  --max, -m       Maximum number of archives allowed in the cache. [default: 20]
  --period        Number of milliseconds between cleaning the cache of expired
                  archives.                                     [default: 60000]
  --ttl, -t       Number of milliseconds before archives expire.
                                                               [default: 600000]
  -h, --help      Show help                                            [boolean]

Visit http://${datKey-base32}.localhost to view any dat available on the network. The key has to be converted to its base32 representation because the maximum length of a DNS subdomain is 63 characters. The standard hexadecimal dat keys are 64 characters long.

The gateway will peer archives until they expire from the cache, at which point it proactively halts them and deletes them from disk.

License

Apache-2.0