Installation

$ go get github.com/noffle/fallback-ipfs-shell

Usage

import (
  shell "github.com/noffle/fallback-ipfs-shell/shell"
)

shell.NewShell() (shell.Shell, error)

Returns a Shell interface, preferring a local HTTP API node if it can find one, but falling back to producing a new ephemeral node that self-bootstraps.

shell.NewApiShell() (shell.Shell, error)

Returns a Shell interface, explicitly connecting to a local HTTP API node if it can find one.

shell.NewEmbeddedShell() (shell.Shell, error)

Returns a Shell interface, explicitly spawning a new IPFS node.