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Tutorial: Files on IPFS

These Lessons are tested with go-ipfs versions: 0.5.0, 0.9.0

Please update this file on github to reflect any other versions that have been tested.

Prerequisites

  • You should have some familiarity with the command line.

  • You should have ipfs installed - the previous tutorial has instructions for that

Learning Objectives

These Lessons will teach you how to

  • Add files to your local IPFS node

  • Read files out of your local IPFS node

  • List the files in your IPFS node

  • Tell IPFS to hold onto files by pinning them

Key Concepts

  • Distinction between IPFS and your regular Filesystem

  • Identifying files by their Hashes

  • IPFS Garbage Collection

  • Pinning files on an IPFS Node

Lessons

  1. Lesson: Add Content to IPFS and Retrieve It

  2. Lesson: Wrap Filenames and Directory Info around Content in IPFS

  3. Lesson: Pinning - Tell IPFS to Keep a File

Next Steps

Once you know how to add files to IPFS and retrieve them, you will be ready to share those files on the P2P network following the Tutorial: Going Online - Joining the Distributed Web

If you're wondering how to update those files after you've shared them, see the Tutorial: Publishing Changes on the Permanent Web

If you want to see how to access those files from the conventional HTTP web, go to the Tutorial: Interacting with the Classical (HTTP) Web

If you want to know more about how IPFS stores this content internally using Merkle DAGs, go to the Tutorial: Merkle Trees and the IPFS DAG

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