# IPFS HTTP Gateway API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ipfs/ipfs-http-gateway-api/  
**Provider:** IPFS — https://apis.io/providers/ipfs/  
**Base URL:** https://ipfs.io  
**Documentation:** https://specs.ipfs.tech/http-gateways/path-gateway/

IPFS HTTP Gateway API is one of 40 APIs that [IPFS](https://apis.io/providers/ipfs/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Gateway, Content Retrieval, IPFS, IPNS, and Public. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The IPFS HTTP Gateway API is an implementation-agnostic interface for retrieving content-addressed data from IPFS over standard HTTP. Path gateways expose /ipfs/{cid} and /ipns/{name} namespaces, supporting GET and HEAD requests with content negotiation for raw blocks, CAR streams, TAR archives, JSON, and CBOR. The IPFS Foundation operates public gateways at ipfs.io (path), dweb.link (subdomain), and trustless-gateway.link (trustless/verifiable only) on a best-effort basis. HTTP Range requests are supported up to 5 GB.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/ipfs-gateway/
- **Specification** — https://specs.ipfs.tech/http-gateways/path-gateway/
- **PublicGateway** — https://ipfs.io
- **SubdomainGateway** — https://dweb.link
- **TrustlessGateway** — https://trustless-gateway.link
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ipfs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other IPFS APIs (12)

- [IPFS Delegated Routing V1 HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/ipfs/ipfs-delegated-routing-v1-http-api/)
- [IPFS Add API](https://apis.io/apis/ipfs/ipfs-add-api/)
- [IPFS Bitswap API](https://apis.io/apis/ipfs/ipfs-bitswap-api/)
- [IPFS Block API](https://apis.io/apis/ipfs/ipfs-block-api/)
- [IPFS Bootstrap API](https://apis.io/apis/ipfs/ipfs-bootstrap-api/)
- [IPFS Cat API](https://apis.io/apis/ipfs/ipfs-cat-api/)
- [IPFS Cid API](https://apis.io/apis/ipfs/ipfs-cid-api/)
- [IPFS Commands API](https://apis.io/apis/ipfs/ipfs-commands-api/)
- [IPFS Config API](https://apis.io/apis/ipfs/ipfs-config-api/)
- [IPFS Dag API](https://apis.io/apis/ipfs/ipfs-dag-api/)
- [IPFS Dht API](https://apis.io/apis/ipfs/ipfs-dht-api/)
- [IPFS Diag API](https://apis.io/apis/ipfs/ipfs-diag-api/)

## Tags

Gateway, Content Retrieval, IPFS, IPNS, Public, Read Only

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