Awesome IPFS

Useful resources for using IPFS and building things on top of it

This list is for projects, tools, or pretty much any things related to IPFS that are totally awesome. This is for products which are already awesome - if you have plans for cool stuff to do with IPFS, you should build it, and then link it here. If you have an idea for an awesome thing to do with IPFS, a good place to ask about it might be in ipfs/apps or ipfs/notes.

Table of Contents

• Use Cases
• Apps
• Tools
• Videos
• Archives
• Discussions

Use Cases

Apps

• beets - Beets has a plugin which allows for easy sharing of music libraries using IPFS
• Boards - Distributed social platform that runs in the browser. GitHub
• Cohort - A golang app to preset a threejs interface and get all of its assets out of IPFS.
• git-ipfs-rehost - A script to rehost your git repos in ipfs.
• Interplanetary Wiki - Wiki built on top of IPFS
• IPFS Event Drop - An app that allows for improved visualization of ipfs events.
• ipfs-share - Pastebin/Image host/File sharing application
• ipfs-userscript - Browser userscript for redirecting gateway.ipfs.io links to your local gateway. This should work on any browser that hasn’t had an extension written for it yet and has support for userscripts.
• ipfs.pics - Upload and share pics. GitHub
• IPFSBin - Pastebin clone build. GitHub
• markup.rocks - Pandoc-based markup editor/previewer/converter, ported to IPFS. Example
• Playback - IPFS playback supoort. This allows casting a video in IPFS to a Chromecast.

Single page Webapps

These are narrowly-scoped, little JS "apps" deployed through IPFS.

• a markdown renderer - example
• a js video player - example
• a qr-code renderer - example
• hasteIPFS - IPFS based code bin. (Read only for now)

Tools

• cachewarmer - Donate ipfs gateways to cache other people's content
• git-remote-ipfs - push/pull repositories from/to IPFS
• http2ipfs - This is a simple webtool to add URLs to an IPFS node.
• ipcat - 🐈 Retrieve IPFS object data and send it to stdout.
• ipfs-chrome-extension - Chrome extension to redirect ipfs.io traffic to local gateway
• ipfs-firefox-addon - Firefox addon to provide access to IPFS via local gateway
• ipfs-linux-service - IPFS Linux Init Daemon
• ipfs-paste - Paste stdin and clipboard to IPFS
• ipfs-screencap - Capture screenshots, publish them to IPFS, and copy the link to the clipboard.
• ipfscrape - Scrape a webpage with all assets and put it in IPFS
• ipget - 📡 wget for IPFS: retrieve files over IPFS and save them locally.
• ipscend - Tool for hosting web apps and static websites in IPFS
• pinbot - Pin content via IRC

Videos

• IPFS Alpha - Why we must redistribute the web (YouTube)
• Juan Bennet at Stanford 2015 (YouTube)

Archives

Articles

Press

• 2015-09-10: First Steps Toward Implementing Distributed Permanent Web With IPFS (Hacked.com)
• 2015-09-13: Introduction to IPFS (whatdoesthequantsay.com)
• 2015-09-18: The InterPlanetary File System Wants to Create a Permanent Web (Vice // Motherboard)
• 2015-11-01: Eris + IPFS (erisindustries.com)
• 2015-11-03: Interview With Kyle Drake & Juan Benet on the IPFS (diginomics.com)

Articles independently hosted on IPFS

• 2015-09-08: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web
• Downloading nodejs versions with nvm/n over IPFS (ipfs.io)

Discussions

• CRDTs discussion

License