README.md

ipfs-chrome-station

Chrome extension that let's you access IPFS urls seamlessly from your local IPFS node, and take a look at its stats.

Based on react-chrome-extension-boilerplate, ipfs-station and ipfs-firefox-addon (if you're using Firefox, make sure to check it out).

Demo

Features

• Icon with badge that shows if the node is running, and how many peers are connected to it
• Clicking on the icon opens popup menu with useful operations:
  • See stats of the IPFS node
  • Toggle redirection to the IPFS node
  • Open IPFS node WebUI
  • Open extension options (more about this bellow)
  • Additionally, on pages loaded from IPFS:
    • Copy canonical IPFS address
    • Copy shareable URL to resource at a default public gateway (https://ipfs.io)
    • Pin/unpin IPFS Resource
• When redirection is on, requests to https?://*/(ipfs|ipns)/$RESOURCE are replaced with http://localhost:8080/(ipfs|ipns)/$RESOURCE
• Options menu that let's you customize several parameters:
  • IPFS node host
  • IPFS node port
  • IPFS node API port
  • API stats polling interval
  • Toggle redirection

Installation

# git clone ...

npm install

Development

• Run script

# build files to './dev'
# start webpack dev server
npm run dev

• Go to chrome://extensions/ and check Developer Mode box
• Click Load unpacked extension... and select the dev folder

Build

# build files to './build'
npm run build

Compress ZIP file

# compress build folder to build.zip
npm run compress

LICENSE

MIT