Papel Mache
Papel Mache is an app that uploads pictures to IPFS through pinata.cloud
Requirements
- pinata/sdk: 1.1.14
- node: 14.17.6
Node
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Node installation on Windows
Go on official Node.js website and download the installer.
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Node installation on Ubuntu
You can install nodejs and npm easily with apt install, just run the following commands.
$ apt-get install nodejs $ apt-get install npm
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Other Operating Systems
You can find more information about the installation on the official Node.js website and the official NPM website.
Configure app
You will need the following env variables:
- API_KEY: get it from your pinata.cloud user.
- API_SECRET_KEY: get it from your pinata.cloud user.
- IMAGES_FOLDER: this is the name of the folder where the files you want to download are located. they should be in your project, this is a relative location. If not set, the program will try to find the images in a folder called
test
Running the project
$ npm install
$ npm app.js
Output
It will write a csv file called ipfs.csv with the ipfs id and the image so you can relate each image with the ipfs link
Other features
If there are a lot of pictures to upload the pinata cloud server may failed or your connection may failed. That's why you have the file check-pins.js
. With the command:
$ npm check-pins.js
You can get a report of the pins uploaded in case you want to retry only for those who failed.