I'm not sure if this is even possible, but here's what I'm trying to do:
ReadStream formatI've managed to accomplish (1) and (2) using html2canvas.
The tricky part is (3). The reason it has to be in ReadStream format is because that's the format Pinata's SDK wants:
const fs = require('fs');
const readableStreamForFile = fs.createReadStream('./yourfile.png');
const options = {
pinataMetadata: {
name: MyCustomName,
keyvalues: {
customKey: 'customValue',
customKey2: 'customValue2'
}
},
pinataOptions: {
cidVersion: 0
}
};
pinata.pinFileToIPFS(readableStreamForFile, options).then((result) => {
//handle results here
console.log(result);
}).catch((err) => {
//handle error here
console.log(err);
});
I realize that this would be no problem to do on the backend with node, but I'd like to do it on the front-end. Is that at all possible? Or am I crazy?
I'm specifically using Vue if that matters.
For anyone interested the solution ended up being using fetch+blob:
const generateImg = async () => {
const canvas = await html2canvas(document.getElementById('hello'));
const img = canvas.toDataURL('image/png');
const res = await fetch(img);
return res.blob();
};
This blob can then be passed into a more manual version of their SDK:
const uploadImg = (blob: Blob) => {
const url = `https://api.pinata.cloud/pinning/pinFileToIPFS`;
const data = new FormData();
data.append('file', blob);
const metadata = JSON.stringify({
name: 'testname',
});
data.append('pinataMetadata', metadata);
const pinataOptions = JSON.stringify({
cidVersion: 0,
});
data.append('pinataOptions', pinataOptions);
return axios
.post(url, data, {
maxBodyLength: 'Infinity' as any, // this is needed to prevent axios from erroring out with large files
headers: {
// @ts-ignore
'Content-Type': `multipart/form-data; boundary=${data._boundary}`,
pinata_api_key: apiKey,
pinata_secret_api_key: apiSecret,
},
})
.then((response) => {
console.log(response);
})
.catch((error) => {
console.log(error);
});
};