IPFS Temporal Evaluation

With this project, we aim to evaluate different aspects of IPFS via the files in the network. Our first task is to collect snapshots of some famous files ( CIDs ) over time.
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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
3. Usage

About The Project

With this project, we aim to evaluate different aspects of IPFS via the files in the network. Our first task is to collect snapshots of some famous files ( CIDs ) over time.

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Built With

• Python
• Golang
• go-ipfs

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

• python
• golang
• go-ipfs ( currently this binary is being fetched from a different repo, but you can install and modify to run your own changes )

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/SBUNetSys/IPFS-Temporal-Script

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Usage

1. Create folder with the current date under results. For eg. results/2022-02-19
2. Add a file all_cid.txt which contains the CIDs separated by a new line.
3. Run the docker script ( which in turn runs the script in a container of the image created using the Dockerfile )

   ./docker.sh 

4. Wait for the results to be published in results/ ( You can run docker ps to see if the container is still running )

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