cardanovalley / papel-mache

A node app to automatically upload multiple pictures to pinata.cloud useful for NFTs collections and automatically deploys in IPFS

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.