API for getting a directory

[odisseus]

Is there a simple way to get a directory by its multihash and write it to the file system, similar to the way ipfs get works in the command line client?

[odisseus]

In case somebody else stumbles on this question: when accessed by the get endpoint of the HTTP interface, the IPFS node by default returns a TAR archive, which encloses either a file or a directory.

In fact, it seems that the node always returns an archive, even if you add &archive=false to the URI...