daemon

Starting an IPFS Daemon

Inspired by a forum post I've played around to start an IPFS daemon programmatically.

• created an extra IPFS directory

export IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs_daemon
ipfs init

• analysed github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/cmd/ipfs

• copied content of function daemonFunc from daemon.go, walked through, and changed it to a more rudimentary version

• run it using the extra IPFS directory

export IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs_daemon
go run main.go

• opened the WebUI 👍

• ask the API something 👍

curl -s "http://localhost:5001/api/v0/bootstrap/list" | jq

So, it works and it was an educational experience. I'm not sure if it is the right way to use go-ipfs. 🤔