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Hello HN! This website doesn't host any record/magnet, but it fetches a dump (csv file) from IPFS and then it builds a database locally on browser with 'flexse
by etagate 5y ago
Hello HN!
This website doesn't host any record/magnet, but it fetches a dump (csv file) from IPFS and then it builds a database locally on browser with 'flexsearch' so you can do text searches and find what you need.
By default, for the showcase, it's wired to a copy of a dump from TNT village (dead italian forum) by its CID, but you can add your own dump to IPFS and then share the dump by attaching the resulting CID as a parameter to the link like: giga.cat?list=Qm.....XyZ
It is nothing serious, it's not perfect, it was my first time using js with dozens of async/await.
I was bored a month ago so I decided to learn more about IPFS and I was surprised that this awesome project is also being implemented with javascript, so you can use it even without installation. I tested if was feasible to share a whole csv file of (title, magnet, ...) and how many records were acceptable because of loading time increase. Well it takes 7s to fetch, parse and populate from a 15MB csv file with ~100k lines. Not that usable, it's just an upper limit. I think it could work well for small communities.