About

Decentralized technology is great, and I'm always glad to see it used, at least until I need to access something on it. For something like IPFS, I have the node software on my desktop, but it still takes time to boot up. If I'm on my phone, or I give a hash to somebody else who's hardly even familiar with IPFS, it's always straight to a gateway.

Gateways are great, but they effectively create a centralized HTTP server with extra steps. Now we're relying on the single ipfs.io/ipfs server, hoping that doesn't go down and take our stuff with it. I made instructed Claude to make this to be an easy means of retrieving content on various decentralized file sharing protocols. If I run into a file it's an easy way to download it without relying on gateways or a local node. If I want to share something on my blog via any of the supported protocols, this client is easy to link beside it so that anyone can access the file while interfacing directly with the network(s) WITHOUT having to install anything.

This project is open source, licensed under GNU v3.

Credit to Helia for IPFS handling and WebTorrent for torrent handling.