This program creates a chat system with IPFS backend to send and retrieve data.
You never actually send data, but people following your IPNS "chat" key will wait or check if you published a new IPFS link over the same key. Of course you will be doing the same to retrieve external messages.
As already mentioned IPFS is used, so you need to download, install, initiate your repo with it and then try this repository.
Of course bash is mandatory. git to clone the repo. You can download it through releases in a compressed file.
You can find bash on any Linux distribution. Head over to dist.ipfs.io to download and setup ipfs.
IPFS daemon should be running on background.
Lastly, I pipe some contents to json_pp. It's a perl package, you can probably find it in your Linux distribution.
Clone and setup.
This will create a key for ipns called 'my-ipbc-key'.
git clone https://github.com/kaotisk-hund/ipbc
cd ipbc
sudo make install
sh setup.shYou can follow other 'ipbc-keys' that are actually just ipns-links.
ipbc-follow <ipns-link>
When we publish a message, we create a reference to our previous message in order for new comers to find the previous messages of ours.
ipbc-post "Your message here"
and wait for new ones
We start reading our following list and wait for new messages to appear. There is an interval of 10 seconds by default, but you can change it in the script.
ipbc-read
This should do a recursive search up to the message that has no previous.
#TODO