IPFS can't unpin from the HTTP API

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I’m working on a react app using IPFS to store files, currently using superagent for making the requests. I can add files no problem from the web app for example:

URL: http://127.0.0.1:5001/api/v0/add

------WebKitFormBoundary9gG5B69BhTfpMoyB
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="blahblahfile.mp3"; filename="blahblahfile.mp3"
Content-Type: audio/mp3


------WebKitFormBoundary9gG5B69BhTfpMoyB--

But now i’m trying to implement an unpinning feature, which isn’t working. I make a request like the following:
http://127.0.0.1:5001/api/v0/pin/rm?args=QmWzCL86fMNoGjsdYW88VV9AGCV4TFX1ddKzYHzGHbGmGj&recursive=true

and then garbage collect:
http://127.0.0.1:5001/api/v0/repo/gc

all the requests go through successfully but the item isn’t removed. One thing i think is odd is in the response for the pin/rm request there are no pins listed in the Pins array. My understanding is that it will return the hash you just unpinned.

I feel like it’s the pin/rm that is failing somewhere but i’m not exactly sure where. Note that i can perform these commands in the terminal and everything get’s unpinned and garbage collected properly.

Has anybody had a similar experience? Got any tips? Let me know if you need any more info, thanks! Really loving playing with and getting to know IPFS!

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maybe you can check the js ipfs api in the doc it explain you can unpin a ressource you need just see how to do that : https://github.com/ipfs/interface-ipfs-core/blob/master/SPEC/PIN.md#ls (documentation).

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Yeah i’ve Seen that… Just seems like the js implementation is still a little green so I was hoping to just use the http api since the ipfs docs say it does everything the GO implementation does. But yeah I might just get the js library instead o my project and test out of that functionality works. Might help me figure something out! Thanks for the reply :smile: