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ipfs-stats

This lets you poll peer and node stats from IPFS very easily.

Install

In Node.js through npm

$ npm install --save ipfs-stats

Browser: Browserify, Webpack, other bundlers

The code published to npm that gets loaded on require is in fact an ES5 transpiled version with the right shims added. This means that you can require it and use with your favorite bundler without having to adjust asset management process.

const StatsPoller = require('ipfs-stats')

In the Browser through <script> tag

Loading this module through a script tag will make the IpfsStats obj available in the global namespace.

<script src="https://unpkg.com/ipfs-stats/dist/index.min.js"></script>
<!-- OR -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/ipfs-stats/dist/index.js"></script>

API

Class StatsPoller

new StatsPoller(ipfs, [frequency])

• ipfs Object. IPFS API Object.
• frequency Integer (optional). The frequency, in milliseconds, to push new stats. Defaults to 1000.

Properties

• poller.stats retrieves the current stats. It should contain the fields bw, id, peers and repo.

Methods

• poller.start([opts]) tells the poller to start polling the opts.
• poller.stop([opts]) tells the poller to stop polling the opts.

opts is an Array of strings. Default is ['bw', 'id', 'peers', 'repo']. Beware that the id poller only runs once because the ID stats are the same throughout the lifespan of the daemon.

Events

• change