How can I generate an IPFS hash in advance for a file with pure node and no daemon running?

[nickjuntilla]

Hi guys I’ve been down the rabbit hole on this for a few days. I’ve read the entire site and gone through the IPFS link course and nothing I do in pure node seems to get the IPFS link I generate to match what IPFS makes. My current strategy is to do a SHA256 of a file and then convert it into Base58, but that never matches the IPFS link. Am I missing a step? Is there a tool for this that doesn’t require the daemon running?

Thank you!

[wclayf]

Generate File Hash Locally on Browser

Hi everyone! I’m glad to be part of this community! Hopefully someone can help me with my following issue! What I’m trying to do is to generate the IPFS hash of a file while the user is using a PWA offline (just a web app). If I’m connected, I can just ipfs.add to add a file and get the file hash, no sweat. Now, if I’m offline I need to hash it locally and want the same output as if I added to an IPFS node. This is the code that I got so far: import { importer } from "ipfs-unixfs-importer"; …