What is CID ?
CID is a format for referencing content in distributed information systems, like IPFS. It leverages content addressing, cryptographic hashing, and self-describing formats.
It is the core identifier used by IPFS and IPLD.
CID is a self-describing content-addressed identifier.
It uses cryptographic hashes to achieve content addressing.
It uses several multiformats to achieve flexible self-description, namely multihash for hashes, multicodec for data content types, and multibase to encode the CID itself into strings.
Sample Usage
>>> from cid import make_cid
>>> make_cid('QmaozNR7DZHQK1ZcU9p7QdrshMvXqWK6gpu5rmrkPdT3L4')
CIDv0(version=0, codec=dag-pb, multihash=b"\x12 \xb9M'\xb9\x93M>\x08\xa5.R\xd7\xda}\xab\xfa\xc4\x84..")
>>> cid = make_cid('QmaozNR7DZHQK1ZcU9p7QdrshMvXqWK6gpu5rmrkPdT3L4')
>>> print(cid.version, cid.codec, cid.multihash)
>>> print(cid.encode())
QmaozNR7DZHQK1ZcU9p7QdrshMvXqWK6gpu5rmrkPdT3L4
>>> str(cid)
'QmaozNR7DZHQK1ZcU9p7QdrshMvXqWK6gpu5rmrkPdT3L4'Other info
Free software: MIT license
Documentation: https://py-cid.readthedocs.io.
Python versions: 3.10-3.14
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