# Install ipfs-car with npm

Convert files to content-addressed archives (.car) and back. Version 3.1.0 via npm; verified 2025-10-08.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:ipfs-car
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g ipfs-car
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:ipfs-car
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/ipfs-car>
- **Version:** 3.1.0
- **Source summary:** Convert files to content-addressed archives (.car) and back
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/web3-storage/ipfs-car#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/web3-storage/ipfs-car>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/web3-storage/ipfs-car#readme>
- **License:** Apache-2.0 OR MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/ipfs-car/-/ipfs-car-3.1.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/web3-storage/ipfs-car/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-10-08T11:27:25.513Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-10-08T11:27:25.513Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- ipfs-car (cli)
- 🚘 (cli)
- ipfs-car (alias)

## Dependencies

- @ipld/car
- @ipld/dag-cbor
- @ipld/dag-json
- @ipld/dag-pb
- @ipld/unixfs
- @web3-storage/car-block-validator
- files-from-path
- ipfs-unixfs-exporter
- multiformats
- sade
- varint

## Build dependencies

- assert
- execa
- hundreds
- mocha
- playwright-test
- standard

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 3.1.0
- Package-manager updated: 2025-10-08
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/web3-storage/ipfs-car
- notice: The package-manager record has not changed recently.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for ipfs-car. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 3.1.0, Next: 2.0.1-pre.0
- **Version Count:** 42
- **Maintainers:** alanshaw, olizilla, vascosantos, it-dag-house
- **Author:** vasco-santos
- **Publisher:** it-dag-house
- **Engines:** Node: >=18
- **Integrity:** sha512-0131+UNxk3+2baxK7qmlwJcl/SEI51v/Avx91LdP9WfSfh9s+/qkGS3ukwtmeG7YIyMLvTruRXPvHiYkz/ejVQ==
- **Shasum:** 922814a7c6037fee12a09880d06f25a9ea12ddc4
- **Unpacked Size:** 411,725
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2021-05-27T09:59:40.851Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-10-08T11:27:25.513Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-10-08T11:27:25.694Z


## Related links

- [Text processing packages](https://pkg.so/text-processing-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [ipfs-only-hash](https://pkg.so/npm/ipfs-only-hash/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: addressing, cid, cli, content, content-addressing.
- [fast-xml-parser](https://pkg.so/npm/fast-xml-parser/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, data, json, path, validator.
- [fmtconv](https://pkg.so/npm/fmtconv/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, convert, data, files, json.

## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
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- cross-ecosystem install command graph