Hosted IPFS Gateway & HTTP Proxy

Purpose

Overcome public IPFS gateway limitations, such as 429 Too Many Requests, by hosting your own IPFS Gateway and HTTP Proxy.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/o-az/eyepfs.git

Build Dockerfile

docker buildx build . \
  --progress 'plain' \
  --file 'Dockerfile' \
  --platform 'linux/amd64' \
  --tag 'ipfs_gateway_proxy'

# or `make docker-build`

Run the image you just built

docker run \
  --rm \
  -it \
  --name 'ipfs_gateway_proxy' \
  --env IPFS_GATEWAY_HOST='http://127.0.0.1:8080' \
  --env ALLOW_ORIGINS='*' \
  --publish '3031:3031' \
  --platform 'linux/amd64' \
  'ipfs_gateway_proxy'

# or `make docker-run`

Run a quick test

^{note: btw it may need a few seconds if it's your first time, no more than 6. So if request fail, just retry}

Open this in browser: http://127.0.0.1:3031/bafybeigdyrzt5sfp7udm7hu76uh7y26nf3efuylqabf3oclgtqy55fbzdi

or run this:

curl --location --request GET \
  --url 'http://127.0.0.1:3031/bafybeigdyrzt5sfp7udm7hu76uh7y26nf3efuylqabf3oclgtqy55fbzdi' \
  --output '/tmp/ipfs_proxy_image.jpeg' && \
  stat '/tmp/ipfs_proxy_image.jpeg'

Restricting access to your gateway is as simple as setting ALLOW_ORIGINS to a comma separated list of allowed origins. Example:

docker run \
  --rm \
  -it \
  --name 'ipfs_gateway_proxy' \
  --env IPFS_GATEWAY_HOST='http://127.0.0.1:8080' \
  --env ALLOW_ORIGINS='http://example.com,http://example.org' \
  --publish '3031:3031' \
  'ipfs_gateway_proxy'

Deployment

anywhere that can run a Dockerfile 🐳

Railway.app

RAILWAY_DOCKERFILE_PATH=Dockerfile railway up --service 'api' --detach --environment 'production'

fly.io

fly deploy --app='ipfs_gateway' --dockerfile Dockerfile --remote-only --detach --build-arg PORT=3031 --env IPFS_PROFILE='server' --env IPFS_GATEWAY_HOST='http://127.0.0.1:8080' --env ALLOW_ORIGINS='*'

Upcoming Features

• 🔨 (CORS) configuration,
• (Kubo) disable all methods but GET and HEAD, and OPTIONS for CORS,
• (Kubo) set Swarm#ConnMgr#Type to "none" (disable all swarm connections),
• (CI) workflow publish image to Docker Hub & GitHub Container Registry,
• (CI) Generate a simple performance report on push,
• Got any ideas? Let's chat

If an item has 🔨 it means it's configurable through env variables