IPFS video upload - 400MB - size?

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#7

it looks like 100MB doesnā€™t work for me either now, I get timeout

#8

it works fine with 100MB, I didnā€™t test it right initially

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#9

with 300MB it looks like it doesnā€™t work, can you test directly from cloud code?

https://docs.moralis.io/moralis-server/cloud-code/cloud-functions#ipfs

#10

Okay, Iā€™m not able to test right now, but I will and let you know. Tks so much. Anyway, Iā€™ll have to make sure what the limit really is, to avoid my users to get stucked uploadingā€¦

#11

Letā€™s hope itā€™s just a server Chrismasā€™ break and wait for Ivan Santa Claus giftsā€¦

#12

I tried to call the cloud function and give an url param like this:

const result = await Moralis.Cloud.toIpfs({

    sourceType: "url",

    source:

      "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B-XBWdgIkXXjZ6fxjLxGHFCT6c80kb_z/view?usp=sharing",

  });

But I got:
TypeError: Moralis.Cloud.toIpfs is not a function

Otherwise, if I call: const result = await Moralis.Cloud.run(ā€œtoIpfsā€,{ params})
I get:
Error: Invalid function: ā€œtoIpfsā€

Am I missing anything?

#13

Besides, what I would like to do is to allow the user to upload a local video (mp4) from his/her machine direct to IPFS. As there is not a sourceType related to this kind of format, what should I do? Do I have to encode the video before? Or upload to any other host and from there send by url?

#14

you could convert it to base64 and then send it, but youā€™ll have to test it how it works with big sizes, or upload it to any other host and from there send by url

I tested now with this code and it works fine for me:


Moralis.Cloud.define("try_ipfs", async (request) => {
const result = await Moralis.Cloud.toIpfs({
  sourceType: "url",
  source: "https://moralis.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Moralis-Glass-Favicon.svg",
});
return result;
})
#15

@matt_dev, I tested meanwhile with an upgraded server and it worked fine with a 300MB file

#16

Great!

The coudFunction worked, but google and dropbox seem to block the url for download.
I will try to upload somewhere else and try from there.

Did you make it from an url?

#17

I did it directly from Moralis SDK with 300MB

#18

uploading from your local machine?

#19

yes, from my local machine, but I used an upgraded server when it worked with 300MB

#20

which version did you use?

#21

I used an equivalent of $200/month server with latest Moralis Server version

#22

Okay!

Iā€™m still testing, so I am in the free plan yet. But it is nice to know it works in the paid ones. Do I need to go to a custom plan or the Pro version is eneough?

#23

Pro version is something different than upgrading the servers, there are separate upgrades for servers so they have more processing power compared to the servers that are free.

#24

I seeā€¦

Well, Iā€™ve made a lot of tests today and I was able to upload a 133MB file.

But then I test with 254MB and 330MB and for these I got this error:
Access to XMLHttpRequest at ā€˜https://biiflg28iijy.usemoralis.com:2053/server/files/video8.mp4ā€™ from origin ā€˜https://biiflg28iijy.usemoralis.comā€™ has been blocked by CORS policy: No ā€˜Access-Control-Allow-Originā€™ header is present on the requested resource.

and for 575MB and 923MB I got another one:
moralis.js:28263 Uncaught (in promise) Error: Invalid file upload.
at handleError (moralis.js:25632)

Itā€™s quite weird, because I tried all of the files from the same localhost server and also deployed a static version in 2 differents servers on Moralis infra.

For development purposes, 133MB is quite good, but I would really appreciate to know if the 1GB limit is working, even in paid plans. This is one video which Iā€™ve been test and has 923MB:

Would you mind to try it and let me know wheter it works?

#25

We will have to decide where to host usersā€™ content and it would be great if Moralis handle everythingā€¦

Another thing that I noted is that, as the api handles the ajax request, I havenā€™t figured out a way of getting the upload progress. For these big files they could think in provide us a callback or any solution to get that progress.

#26

what are you building that you need to upload files so big on IPFS?