django-ipfs-storage 0.0.4

As default backend

Use IPFS as Django’s default file storage backend:

# settings.py

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'ipfs_storage.InterPlanetaryFileSystemStorage'

IPFS_STORAGE_API_URL = 'http://localhost:5001/api/v0/'
IPFS_STORAGE_GATEWAY_URL = 'http://localhost:8080/ipfs/'

For a specific FileField

Alternatively, you may only want to use the IPFS storage backend for a single field:

from django.db import models

from ipfs_storage import InterPlanetaryFileSystemStorage


class MyModel(models.Model):
    # …
    file_stored_on_ipfs = models.FileField(storage=InterPlanetaryFileSystemStorage())
    other_file = models.FileField()  # will still use DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE

Don’t forget the brackets to instantiate InterPlanetaryFileSystemStorage() with the default arguments!

Why IPFS?

Not my department. See https://ipfs.io/#why.

How do I ensure my uploads are always available?

I don’t know. Maybe look into using ipfs-cluster to spread it across a few nodes? Or perhaps you could integrate Eternum’s hosted pinning service.

How do I backup my uploads?

See above.

How do I delete an upload?

Because of the distributed nature of IPFS, anyone who accesses a piece of content keeps a copy, and reseeds it for you automatically until it’s evicted from their node’s local cache. Yay bandwidth costs! Boo censorship!

Unfortunately, if you’re trying to censor yourself (often quite necessary), this means the best we can do is unpin the piece of content from your own IPFS node(s) and hope nobody else has pinned it.

How do I securely expose my IPFS daemon’s API to connect remotely?

Someone please tell me.

How do I securely expose my own IPFS←HTTP Gateway?

Again, see above.