Papel Mache

Papel Mache is an app that uploads pictures to IPFS through pinata.cloud, useful for NFTs collections and automatically deploys in IPFS

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Requirements

• pinata/sdk: 1.1.14
• node: 14.17.6

Node

• Node installation on Windows

  Go on official Node.js website and download the installer.

• Node installation on Ubuntu

  You can install nodejs and npm easily with apt install, just run the following commands.

  $ apt-get install nodejs
  $ apt-get install npm
  

• Other Operating Systems

  You can find more information about the installation on the official Node.js website and the official NPM website.

Configure app

You will need the following env variables:

• API_KEY: get it from your pinata.cloud user.
• API_SECRET_KEY: get it from your pinata.cloud user.
• IMAGES_FOLDER: this is the name of the folder where the files you want to download are located. they should be in your project, this is a relative location. If not set, the program will try to find the images in a folder called test

Running the project

$ npm install
$ npm app.js

Output

It will write a csv file called ipfs.csv with the ipfs id and the image so you can relate each image with the ipfs link

Other features

If there are a lot of pictures to upload the pinata cloud server may failed or your connection may failed. That's why you have the file check-pins.js. With the command:

$ npm check-pins.js

You can get a report of the pins uploaded in case you want to retry only for those who failed.