IPFS-Lite

IPFS-Lite is an embeddable, lightweight IPFS peer which runs the minimal setup to provide an ipld.DAGService and UnixFS-files addition and retrieval.

It can:

• Add, Get, Remove IPLD Nodes to/from the IPFS Network (remove is a local blockstore operation).
• Add single files (chunk, build the DAG and Add) from a io.Reader.
• Get single files given a their CID.

It needs:

• A libp2p Host
• A libp2p DHT
• A datastore, such as BadgerDB, go-ds-flatfs or an in-memory one.

Some helper functions are provided to initialize these quickly.

It provides:

• An ipld.DAGService.
• An AddFile method to add content from a reader.
• A GetFile method to get a file from IPFS.

The goal of IPFS-Lite is to run the bare minimal functionality for any IPLD-based application to interact with the IPFS Network by getting and putting blocks to it, rather than having to deal with the complexities of using a full IPFS daemon, and with the liberty of sharing the needed libp2p Host and DHT for other things.

License

Apache 2.0