API & CLI reference

Looking for user and developer references for IPFS? Find them here.

HTTP Gateway

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.

Custom APIs

Implementation and language specific interfaces can be used when HTTP Gateway API is not enough, or you need additional flexibility.

Kubo (go-ipfs)

Kubo is the earliest and most widely used implementation of IPFS, written in Go.

Use it as:

• CLI tool
  Working in the terminal? Here's where you'll find Kubo's command-line interface (CLI) reference.

• HTTP RPC endpoint
  RPC API v0 reference for Kubo — control your node over HTTP using the same commands you can from the command line!

• 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.

JavaScript (js-ipfs)

API resources for js-ipfs, including the JS core API reference and the JS HTTP client library.

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