ipfs/kubo
IPFS implementation in Go: a daemon that stores and serves content-addressed data, with a CLI, HTTP Gateway, and RPC API
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Where it stands
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1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 53 days ago, with 399 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements an IPFS node in Go that stores and serves content-addressed data with CLI, HTTP Gateway, and RPC API interfaces.
- Provides a robust, production-ready IPFS daemon with native UnixFS support and interoperable HTTP gateways for decentralized content distribution.
- Use for deploying a peer-to-peer distributed file system node to share and retrieve immutable data across LAN and WAN networks.
- Use for integrating content-addressed storage and retrieval into applications via HTTP Gateway or RPC API for decentralized web services.
- Use for running a local or public IPFS node with content blocking and delegated routing to manage and control distributed content access.
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From the README
The first implementation of IPFS.
Kubo was the first IPFS implementation and is the most widely used one today. Implementing the Interplanetary Filesystem - the standard for content-addressing on the Web, interoperable with HTTP. Thus powered by future-proof data models and the libp2p for network communication. Kubo is written in Go.
Daily snapshots
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+82 stars over 90 days across 9 snapshot days; best day +4 on Sep 14.
Forks
3.2K+6
Open issues
886-2
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| ipfs/kubo | 17.2K | — | 57 | 53 days ago |
| Category median | 94.7K | +2.0K | 75 | — |
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