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From YouTube: Infura demos new enhanced IPFS API beta

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Michael Godsey joined us to demo Infura’s new enhanced IPFS API service, now in private beta! To learn more about Infura, visit https://blog.infura.io/new-and-improved-ipfs/.

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I'm michael godzi, I'm the gm head of product for infuria uh infira is a developer suite for all things. Web3 um our bread and butter are ethereum and ipfs.

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uh We've been hosting um both networks for over four years um and have been really the the um the standard platform for people to to really build and explore these new technologies.

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um And so uh a couple of years ago we upgraded our ethereum service to really kind of build in more product functionality um and and make it something that applications could really scale on top of, and we just released the um the matching ipfs upgrade for our platform.

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So uh now developers that have been experimenting with infira developers that are have started to really build ipfs into their applications and are exploring ipfs as a really meaningful addition to how they're doing data storage or data security can utilize ipfs at the at the ex very, very high level of quality that we've established with our ethereum product as well.

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So um you can head to inferior dot, io product, slash, ipfs, and you will see all the new information on the new product and how it works. It's got full connectivity into our dashboard, which I'll walk through in a little bit.

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It's a highly available api we've built really amazing, innovative systems, around storage scaling uh broadcasting data across the network, peering management. um The list goes on and on and on the the backend infrastructure that makes this all work is, is pretty brilliant, um and uh so it has. You can have the same reliability that you have with all of other our other products when you're using ipfs on infuria, um and uh it works with all of the standard, ipfs libraries.

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um You know it really is as simple as connecting into a url and and hitting go, and it's fully pay as you go so there's uh it's uh it's pay for what you use. um We we we really wanted to make it an easy way to scale, but also an easy way to continue uh experimenting, so we've also included um uh a free amount of of uh access to the product. Still so this is uh you know, this is a huge staple of our platform.

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Is giving people the space to experiment um and and as you can see the you know, you can learn all about the pricing uh directly on our pricing page.

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So, let's hop in so uh basically you'll go to inferior.io log into your dashboard, which I am already and then you'll see an all new item on the left bar for ipfs, along with a lot of the other awesome networks that we support here, you can learn a little bit more about the product and and get some information about how to get started a lot of similar information to what's on our product page. But these links are super helpful. We have some migration uh documentation.

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We have our links to our full documentation, which I'll give you a quick preview of in a little bit. So let's get started so first we're going to start by naming our project, so um your inferior usage and your dashboard is kind of organized by product and project, and so this allows you to identify different use cases or say you had a dev environment, a staging environment, a production environment. This would allow you to kind of configure all of those.

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However, you like so we'll create demo for this one, and this is going to now show me um my project settings view which gives me really detailed settings on on quotas, so that I make sure that you know I don't go above any spending amount that I want to so you can come in here and say I only want to use 10 gigabytes and it will make sure that you don't go over that same with data transfer up and down, and then we have some additional security features, such as limiting um access which will help you control access to your api and make sure that if, if someone were to get access to your api key, it's not going to cause you damage to your account.

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So, as you can see, I have a terminal pulled up here. um This is we're gonna, I'm gonna, quickly, walk through uh live um uh pinning the data pinning a file to your inferior ipfs.

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So this is the documentation. As you can see, we have some really great getting started information. This will walk you through exactly how to start pinning files.

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The default functionality for an add method is that it will pin by default.

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You can use a parameter inside of the add method that will allow you to toggle that on and off, but for the purposes of this, I'm just going to uh I'm going to um keep it on so we'll just do that and there you go so super simple, um but what's cool is let's go back to our dashboard and we can now see the file that I just pinned in my data explorer when I pinned it, how big it is and, um and then you'll get some you'll get some real-time information about uh your uh pinning, um and that is that is the that.

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That's how that's how it works. It's super easy. It's as simple. As going straight to this url you're gonna get all of your visibility. You can have multiple projects, uh you have our the support of our amazing support team. If you ever need help, you just come straight to the support panel, which is directly inside of your dashboard, and then you know, select ipfs, and we can help with pretty much any issue that you have you'll get information about. Your running total for your upcoming bill. um This is not gonna.

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This is this is all within the free allotment, so we're not having any actual billing happening, um and then you can even unpin directly from the dashboard in case you don't want to get charged for that storage, and that's it it's uh it's. It's really really awesome. It allows you to really scale on top of the service and and definitely check out our documentation check out the blog posts that we put up and uh and have fun.

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