Adding web3.storage to IPFS Desktop

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Hi. I’m sort of new to IPFS. I am running IPFS Desktop and also have signed up with a pinning service – web3.storage. Now I want to add web3.storage as a pinning service to IPFS Desktop. I get stuck at finding the secret access token. Is this the place to get help with that? I originally tried to find suppport at web3.storage, but haven’t been able to find it.

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@mobly Hi Mate am not sure what you were trying to get to but what i know is to create X-Auth-Secret and Authorization , if thats what you need?

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Hey there Mobly,

Web3 Storage is deprecated. Storacha has launched in it’s place with improvements!

I suggest exploring what we have to offer with our docs.

Happy to answer any questions you have here, but might be quickest to hop in our Discord where our team answers most ?'s in real time.

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According to Frequently Asked Questions 🔥 storacha.network, Storacha doesn’t support the Pinning API Spec anymore, which means you can’t easily add Storacha as a pinning service to IPFS Desktop.

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Use CARs instead

The alternative is to export CAR files from Kubo and upload to Storacha!

With the CLI you can use these two commands:

  • Export CAR from your IPFS Node ipfs dag export bafybeibml5uieyxa5tufngvg7fgwbkwvlsuntwbxgtskoqynbt7wlchmfm > dag.car
  • Upload CAR to Storacha: w3 up -c dag.car