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Creating folders on IPFS

You can upload content on IPFS. Starton IPFS is a storage and pinning service, where you can host files, folders, and metadata on our IPFS nodes so that they remain available at all times.

POST requests with a body should have the Content-Type header with value application/json. For sending files it should be multipart/form-data.

const axios = require("axios")
const FormData = require("form-data")
const fs = require("fs")

// AUTHENTICATING TO THE API USING YOUR API KEY
const startonApi = axios.create({
	baseURL: "https://api.starton.com",
	headers: {
		"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
	},
})

const folderPath = "my/folder/path"
let data = new FormData()
const files = fs.readdirSync(folderPath)

data.append("folderName", "folder name")
for (const file of files) {
	const buffer = fs.readFileSync(folderPath + "/" + file)
	data.append("files", buffer, file)
}

data.append("metadata", metadata)
startonApi
	.post("/v3/ipfs/folder", data, {
		headers: {
			"Content-type": `multipart/form-data; boundary=${data.getBoundary()}`,
		},
	})
	.then((res) => console.log(res.data))
	.catch((e) => console.log(e))