IPFS Wikipedia Search is a lightweight, open-source search interface that lets you browse Wikipedia over the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). It automatically adapts to your browser's capabilities: in P2P-enabled browsers (like Peersky or any IPFS-native environment), it utilizes the native IPNS protocol (e.g., using URLs such as ipns://en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org/wiki/Article_Title) to access distributed Wikipedia snapshots directly from the decentralized network. In non-P2P browsers, it falls back to an HTTP gateway (e.g., https://en-wikipedia--on--ipfs-org.ipns.dweb.link/wiki/Article_Title), ensuring that anyone can access the content regardless of their browser setup. The interface resolves queries via the official Wikipedia API to ensure the correct, canonical article titles before fetching it from P2P. Special thanks to distributed-wikipedia-mirror for putting Wikipedia snapshots on IPFS, which powers this project.
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