Cloud Storage & File Sharing — entry 014 of 18
Pinata
Pinata is an IPFS pinning and Web3 file-storage service whose API lets apps upload files and JSON to IPFS and manage pinned content through dedicated gateways. A live GET against the real gateway, api.pinata.cloud/data/testAuthentication, returned a 401 without a token, reconfirming API-key auth over HTTPS, and the same response carried Access-Control-Allow-Origin echoing the request Origin plus Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true, resolving cors from unknown to yes. A free plan includes 1GB of storage and one gateway, with paid Picnic, Fiesta, and Enterprise tiers raising storage, bandwidth, and gateway limits.
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<a href="https://greatapis.com/api/pinata/"><img src="https://greatapis.com/badge/pinata.svg" alt="Scored 61 on greatapis.com"></a>Auth quickstart
- Sign up with the provider to get an API key.
- Send it on every request as a header
Authorization: <key> - The exact header isn't documented — Authorization is a common default; confirm in the provider's docs.
Your key is stored only in this browser (localStorage) and sent directly to the API — never to greatapis.