It’s quite simple: I want to retrieveFile(fileHash) where fileHash is the output of md5sum $file or sha256sum $file, or whatever other hashing algorithm exists.

I’m not sure what your concern is. I’d basically like to call a function retrieveFile(fileHash) and get bytes back. Or call retrieveFileLocations(fileHash) and get URIs back to where the file can be downloaded. Also, it’ll be opensource, so nothing to reverse engineer.

How do I retrieve a file from bittorrent with just its hash? Does WebMirror solve that? I’ll have a look at it…

If you sha256sum $file and send that hash to somebody, they can’t download the file from IPFS (unless it’s <2MB IINM), that’s the problem. And it can be any hashing algorithm md5, blake, whatever.

I know that @Ategon@programming.dev is there. Maybe he can make you a mod there too? And the channel could be added to the sidebar of this community too.