README.md

go-ipfs-provider

❗ This repo is no longer maintained.

👉 We highly recommend switching to the maintained version at https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/tree/main/provider. 🏎️ Good news! There is tooling and documentation to expedite a switch in your repo.

⚠️ If you continue using this repo, please note that security fixes will not be provided (unless someone steps in to maintain it).

📚 Learn more, including how to take the maintainership mantle or ask questions, here.

Background

The provider system is responsible for announcing and reannouncing to the ipfs network that a node has content.

Install

Via go get:

$ go get github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs-provider

Requires Go 1.12

Usage

Here's how you create, start, interact with, and stop the provider system:

import (
	"context"
	"time"

	"github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs-provider"
	"github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs-provider/queue"
	"github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs-provider/simple"
)

rsys := (your routing system here)
dstore := (your datastore here)
cid := (your cid to provide here)

q := queue.NewQueue(context.Background(), "example", dstore)

reprov := simple.NewReprovider(context.Background(), time.Hour * 12, rsys, simple.NewBlockstoreProvider(dstore))
prov := simple.NewProvider(context.Background(), q, rsys)
sys := provider.NewSystem(prov, reprov)

sys.Run()

sys.Provide(cid)

sys.Close()

License

This library is dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and MIT terms.

Copyright 2019. Protocol Labs, Inc.