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fix: w3link rate limit in docs (#2250)
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dchoi27 authored Mar 16, 2023
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If you want to link directly to a file within that directory, just add the file path after the CID portion of the link. For example: [bafybeidd2gyhagleh47qeg77xqndy2qy3yzn4vkxmk775bg2t5lpuy7pcu.ipfs.w3s.link/not-distributed.jpg](https://bafybeidd2gyhagleh47qeg77xqndy2qy3yzn4vkxmk775bg2t5lpuy7pcu.ipfs.w3s.link/not-distributed.jpg) could be used as a shareable link for your new favorite wallpaper.

You can easily fetch any data stored using web3.storage using an IPFS HTTP gateway. Because IPFS is a peer-to-peer, decentralized network, you can use any public HTTP gateway to fetch your data. In this guide, we'll use the gateway at `w3s.link`, but you can see more worldwide gateways on the [IPFS Public Gateway Checker](https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/).
You can easily fetch any data stored using web3.storage using an IPFS HTTP gateway. Because IPFS is a peer-to-peer, decentralized network, you can use any public HTTP gateway to fetch your data. In this guide, we'll use the gateway at `w3s.link` (which is optimized for content stored on web3.storage), but you can see more worldwide gateways on the [IPFS Public Gateway Checker](https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/).

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w3link (`https://ipfs.w3s.link/*`) has a rate limit of 200 requests per minute by IP.
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When you [store data using the web3.storage client][howto-store], the `put` method returns an [IPFS content identifier (CID)][ipfs-docs-cid] string. That CID points to an IPFS directory that contains all the files you passed in using the `put` method.

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