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# Helia

Dive into the specifics of connecting and using Helia with web3stash

## Initialization

To use Helia Client which actually allows you to connect to local or your own hosted helia providers you have to pass "HELIA" as the service name. No other name will work!

```javascript
const heliaClientService = Web3Stash("HELIA",{},{Helia APIconfig options})
```

## Configuration 

To use Helia in web3stash, you need to pass nothing, we will spawn a Helia node for you!

#### Optional Config Options

You can pass Helia configOptions for this service

## Methods Available

The following methods are available for this service, More will be added soon

* Uploading JSON data 

```javascript
heliaClientService.uploadJson({name:"example", url:"abc.com"}, {heiaClientOptions}).then().catch()
```

* Uploading Image

```javascript
heliaClientService.uploadImage("./image.png", {heliaClientOptions}).then().catch()
```

* Uploading Video

```javascript
heliaClientService.uploadVideo("./video.mp4", {heliaClientOptions}).then().catch()
```

* Uploading File

<pre class="language-javascript"><code class="lang-javascript"><strong>heliaClientService.uploadFile("./data.txt", {heliaClientOptions}).then().catch()
</strong></code></pre>

## Output

All the functions return id (cid) and metadata (data returned by the service on upload)

<pre class="language-javascript"><code class="lang-javascript"><strong>{id:"dewfnlpweurmwknrwiojhgcbxczz", metadata:{}}
</strong></code></pre>


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