I am using ipfs-http-client to read the contents of a file form infura, how do i use the "cat" funtionality to correctly get the data in a string/json format?
const client = create({
url: ipfsUrl(),
headers: {
authorization: ipfsAuthPhrase(),
},
});
const cidformat = "f" + cid.substring(2);
const cidV0 = new CID(cidformat).toV0().toString();
const resp = await client.cat(cidV0);
let content = [];
for await (const chunk of resp) {
content = [...content, ...chunk];
}
console.log(content.toString());
right now i am just getting a array of binaries on the console log.
From this point on its just a matter of decoding the content buffer.
If the content is some JSON:
const raw = Buffer.from(content).toString('utf8')
console.log(JSON.parse(raw))
If the content is an image:
Buffer.from(content).toString('base64')