feat: Add urls directly.

Closes ipfs-inactive#109
dignifiedquire · Nov 16, 2015 · 9cdb0a2 · 9cdb0a2
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diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 var multiaddr = require('multiaddr')
 var getConfig = require('./config')
 var getRequestAPI = require('./request-api')
+var request = require('request')
 
 exports = module.exports = IpfsAPI
 
@@ -63,6 +64,10 @@ function IpfsAPI (host_or_multiaddr, port) {
       opts = {}
     }
 
+    if (typeof files === 'string' && files.startsWith('http')) {
+      files = request(files)
+    }
+
     return requestAPI('add', null, opts, files, cb)
   }
 

diff --git a/test/tests.js b/test/tests.js
@@ -145,6 +145,19 @@ describe('IPFS Node.js API wrapper tests', function () {
         }
       })
     })
+    it('adds a url', function (done) {
+      this.timeout(10000)
+
+      var url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api/2a9cc63d7427353f2145af6b1a768a69e67c0588/README.md'
+      apiClients['a'].add(url, function (err, res) {
+        if (err) throw err
+
+        var added = res[0]
+
+        assert.equal(added.Hash, 'QmZmHgEX9baxUn3qMjsEXQzG6DyNcrVnwieQQTrpDdrFvt')
+        done()
+      })
+    })
   })
 
   describe('.cat', function () {