Streaming API for IPFS write?

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Hello,

IPFS newbie here. I’ve searched the git documentation, etc., but need some pointers.

Is there an IPFS API that supports stream writes to IPFS? I know that a whole file can be added through the IPFS API, but I have a need to open an IPFS file and write blocks of data as they become available. This is pretty easy to do in most high level languages, but I don’t see how to do this for IPFS files. Any help and pointers would be appreciated!

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AFAIK, an append operation to write to an existing unixfs file has not been implemented.

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Thank you! I was afraid that would be the answer. We will find a way to work around this.

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it exists in the mfs of Kubo, ipfs files write do it, but it’s very slow because the MFS codebase isn’t good.

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Thanks. For various reasons we can’t use mfs. Appreciate your thoughts.

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If you found the way, please share, thanks.