Api for search index hosted on ipfs

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Hi, I have a project where I am storing web index data (warc headers) on ipfs nodes, and then trying to generate an API key I can use to access the ipfs data from a search engine. Can anyone advise me how to do this? Thank you!

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API key for what (what needs the API key and what will accept it)? IPFS doesn’t have API keys (at the moment, at least).

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is there a way to develop api keys to work with it? or any kind of workaround?

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it’s a php server and meta search engine. for example right now I can connect an api key from bing etc, but want to have another index stored on ipfs if possible, but need an api key to integrate it

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Maybe this helps? http://api.ipfs-search.com/

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API key for what. The IPFS API doesn’t require an API key.

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the api key would allow the php based front end of the search engine to access the ipfs contents (which are indexed URLs)

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Again, IPFS has an API and it doesn’t require any API keys. See: https://ipfs.io/docs/api/

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oh great! Can you advise how I could integrate my data on ipfs with a php front end? With my other data, I have an api key, so not familiar how to do it any other way. my php front end, does it need IPFS installed as well?

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I can’t walk you though every step of the way but I can point you at the documentation and help you if you run into any issues.

(and yes, you’ll need ipfs installed)