Parse IPFS CID API

Parses an IPFS CIDv0 (Qm… base58btc) or CIDv1 (multibase base58btc/base32) into version, multibase, codec, multihash algorithm, and digest hex. Answers 'Is this a CIDv0 or CIDv1?', 'What codec and hash does this IPFS CID encode?'

Price$0.02per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/encoding/cid-parse

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

Cache0s public

cidipfscidv0cidv1multihashmultibaseparseencoding

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/encoding/cid-parse

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "value": "QmUNLLsPACCz1vLxQVkXqqLX5R1X345qqfHbsf67hvA3Nn"
}

Example response

{
  "version": 0,
  "multibase": "implicit-base58btc",
  "codecCode": 112,
  "codec": "dag-pb",
  "hashCode": 18,
  "hashAlgorithm": "sha2-256",
  "digestLength": 32,
  "digestHex": "59948439065f29619ef41280cbb932be52c56d99c5966b65e0111239f098bbef",
  "interpretation": "CIDv0 (dag-pb / sha2-256), 32-byte digest."
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "value"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "value": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "QmUNLLsPACCz1vLxQVkXqqLX5R1X345qqfHbsf67hvA3Nn"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}