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Old 06-15-2022, 02:54 PM   #1
shayaknyc
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Question IPFS Integration?

Hey folks!

Apologies in advance if this is a silly question, but I've been reading up on IPFS, and how much it's matured over the last few years.

I'd love to somehow integrate my calibre library, and it's growing collection of assets, with IPFS. In a sense, uploading files to IPFS is easy, the problem is, once it's on IPFS, unless the entry has good metadata, you don't really know what file you're downloading, as it's assigned a HASH as its identifier. Like, there's no real search function, unless you use https://ipfs-search.com/.

However, with a proper front-end to manage the metadata of the asset (such as Calibre), which somehow integrates the IPFS back-end, to me, seems like an excellent idea/opportunity - especially if one would like to share their libraries more broadly.

Eager to hear people's thoughts on this....I'm not a developer, so maybe I'm making assumptions on this use-case that don't apply, so please don't chop my head off LOL

Thanks in advance!!
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