Your Bridge to the Decentralized Web.
We are enabling users like you to navigate through the decentralized web with unparalleled speed and security. As a conduit between the traditional web and the decentralized IPFS web, our gateway ensures that your journey through the boundless universe of decentralized data is not only seamless but also reliable and robust.
An IPFS gateway acts as a bridge between the traditional web protocol (HTTP) and the IPFS protocol. It listens for requests for IPFS content, retrieves that content via IPFS, and makes it available via HTTP. This allows anyone to access content from public IPFS networks, no matter what web browser they're using. The IPFS.io public gateway is provided for free on an as-is basis, and not intended to be part of your critical path or production infrastructure. The features it supports are listed on the docs website. It is one of several public IPFS gateways.
The IPFS.io public gateway allows people to access a wide variety of data, content, and materials (referred to as “Content”) uploaded to the IPFS network by third-parties. Please note that you will be solely responsible for the consequences of using, disclosing, storing, transferring, or transmitting this Content. Any Content violating this Acceptable Use policy that is served through the IPFS.io public gateway may be immediately removed or disabled without any compensation to you, such as by adding that Content's identifier to the Bad Bits denylist. The following types of Content violate the Acceptable Use policy:
To report abuse or submit a takedown request, email abuse@ipfs.io. Your email should include the relevant CID or URL, and the reason for your report or request. For copyright-related requests, please include all of the required details for a DMCA takedown request. You will receive an automated system receipt. Next, someone from the takedown team will review the request to make sure it is legitimate and determine appropriate next steps based on the Acceptable Use policy above. If the takedown team decides to issue a takedown based on the Acceptable Use policy, the relevant information from the request will be added to the denylist at https://badbits.dwebops.pub/. The gateways will return a 410 error when users try to fetch the content in question. Your browser may have a local cache of the content in question and might not immediately reflect that something has been blocked on the gateways. To avoid browser caching, switch to your browser's incognito or private mode. You can also prevent caching issues by using a command-line tool such as cURL or wget.
Below you can find answers to the most frequently asked questions.
The ipfs.io gateway runs Rainbow, an implementation of the IPFS HTTP Gateway API, to find, retrieve, and serve data. It listens for requests for IPFS content, retrieves that content via IPFS, and makes it available to the requester via HTTP. Read the IPFS docs to learn more about IPFS Gateways or other Public IPFS Utilities.
The best way to get support is to describe your issue clearly and in sufficient detail on the IPFS Forum.
The ipfs.io/dweb.link public gateways are maintained by Interplanetary Shipyard on behalf of the IPFS Foundation. The funds are contributed by a range of donors who wish to support digital public infrastructure. Join them, all contributions are welcome!
Running IPFS directly is more efficient, but not all applications or websites support it today. Gateways are an interim solution. Longer term, the IPFS project aims to increase direct support for ipfs:// in browsers and applications. There will always be a role for gateways, but we anticipate that role will shrink as direct IPFS support becomes more prevalent.
The ipfs.io gateway is one of the first that verifies the data against the requested CID before being returned to users. We do however recommend that clients implement their own verification as that is a foundational part of IPFS. To simplify this, gateways support trustless content types that enable verifiable retrieval. This requires an explicit opt-in from the client at the time of the request. If you are interested in exploring this more, we recommend you experiment with Helia, a JS IPFS implementation that supports trustless retrievals.
For abuse and DMCA related inquiries, please see the Reporting Abuse section above. If you would like to run your own gateway, please see Self Hosting a Gateway in the IPFS Docs and get in touch with any questions. The ipfs.io public gateway is maintained by Interplanetary Shipyard on behalf of the IPFS Foundation. You can reach us at #waterworks-community on Filecoin Slack, on GitHub at ipshipyard/waterworks-community, and on the IPFS discussion forums at discuss.ipfs.tech.
