IPFS RPC API documentation

stolab commented 5 months ago

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Is there some documentation available on how to use the RPC API for kubo](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ipfs/kubo/client/rpc) ? It feels like it's capable of doing a loooot of stuff but it's really hard (at least for me) to understand how to use that.

For example I cannot understand how to get an asset from a localAPI based on the CID....

stolab commented 5 months ago

it seems that coreinterface (https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ipfs/boxo/coreiface#CoreAPI) it's not part of boxo anymore.........

Which means even the example at the top does not work anymore......

gammazero commented 2 months ago

The example above has been updated and should work now: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/tree/master/client/rpc#coreifacecoreapi-over-http-rpc

The reference documentation will be updated with the upcoming release, and should close this issue.

lidel commented 2 months ago

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ipfs/kubo/client/rpc now reflects 0.30.0

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