BitcoinFiles JS

Upload up to 218MB files to Bitcoin.

• JS SDK
• HTTP API

JS Usage

Installation

npm install @bitcoin-files/bitcoinfiles-js

Import

const bitcoinfiles = require('@bitcoin-files/bitcoinfiles-js');

Upload

const file = new File(['foo', 'bar'], 'foobar.txt');
const formData = new FormData();
formData.append('file', file);
const upload = await bitcoinfiles.upload(formData, '<workspace-id>');

Pay

const paymentAddress = upload.payment_address;
const paymentSatoshis = upload.payment_satoshis;

// ...build transaction using paymenAddress and paymentSatoshis
const rawtx = '....'

const payment = await bitcoinfiles.pay(rawtx);
const txid = payment.result[0].txid // txid of the bitcoin file

Download

const txid = '8f7090ec72a692e7bb893a3fd4ef1e508c655a284a5b736b3cc7c63649748562'
const file = await bitcoinfiles.download(txid);

API Usage

Upload

To use BitcoinFiles, you first upload a file, then you pay for it to be settled on the bitcoin ledger.

Request

POST https://doge.bitcoinfiles.org?workspace=<workspace-id>
Content-Type: multipart/form-data
Body:
  file: <file-contents>

Response

{
    payment_address: '18Qi1rXJSLDLUYDZVkRT3ZdyB3E9eZamY2',
    payment_sats_needed: 2833,
    workspace_id: '<workspace-id>',
    file_size: 1235,
    file_content_type: 'image/jpeg',
}

Pay

To pay for a file, send payment_address to payment_sats_needed. You can pay for multiple files at once in the same transaction

Request

POST https://doge.bitcoinfiles.org/pay
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Body: <raw-transaction-hex>

Response

If paying for multiple files in one payment, the response txids will be in the same order as the payment outputs

{
    errors: [],
    status: 200,
    result: ['f7a3e5838a134a78b6a5033aa928efb7849be6212307b9b9eed3c738ea470bc2']
}

Download

You can download a file by using it's transaction id. This link can be used in html tags like <img>, <video> or <audio>

Request

GET https://doge.bitcoinfiles.org/[txid]

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