Brave specific chrome APIs

Brave exposes some additional APIs to extensions on top of the chrome APIs.

chrome.ipfs

Allows a user to get information about the local IPFS node.

Permissions

Requires ipfs permission

Functions

chrome.ipfs.resolveIPFSURI(uri, callback(gateway_url))

• Parameters:
  • uri: An IPFS uri of the form ipfs://[cid]
  • callback: Callback called with the gateway URL of the passed in URI

chrome.ipfs.getIPFSEnabled(callback(enabled))

• Parameters:
  • callback: Callback called with a boolean indicating if IPFS is enabled

IPFS Is enabled when it is not in a private Window, not disabled by admin policy, and enabled via chrome://flags (which is the default). This does not indicate if the resolution type is set to a certain value.

chrome.ipfs.getResolveMethodType(callback(type))

• Parameters:
  • callback: Callback called with a string `"ask"|"gateway"|"local"|"disabled"

Availability

Available in Brave 1.24.x and later