Lesson 14 - Doesn't Deploy to Pinata

[JR-Vickers]

Hi,

I'm at the part of Lesson 14 (around 21:45) where we upload the dog NFTs to Pinata. The code technically works, but it deploys to localhost, not Pinata. See below:

I've tried manually overriding the network but it doesn't work. You can find my code here.

[alymurtazamemon]

@JR-Vickers Make sure your UPLOAD_TO_PINATA check is true in .env file

[JR-Vickers]

I updated my .env but I'm still getting the same message.

[alymurtazamemon]

@JR-Vickers If you console this line console.log(await storeImages(imagesLocation)), as you can see below it is working and uploading to the pinata, and because I already have these files on pinata that is why me isDuplicate check is true.

You should make sure your pinata API key and secret and specify like this;

const pinata = pinataSDK(process.env.PINATA_API_KEY, process.env.PINATA_SECRET)

[JR-Vickers]

I just figured out what was wrong, I didn't have require("dotenv").config() in my uploadToPinata.js file. Thanks!

[byte14]

Well, your contracts will deployed to blockchain networks and you are deploying your contract in hardhat localhost network.
Pinata is not a blockchain network, it's a platform that lets you pin data on an IPFS node.

• So, you will pin your NFTs on IPFS by uploading it to Pinata, but your contracts will be uploaded to blockchain networks (hardhat localhost in your case). And it is successfully deploying your contract in hardhat localhost.
• For uploading NFTs to Pinata, assuming your code is fine, you may need to check your environment variable is set to true as mentioned by @alymurtazamemon

[JR-Vickers]

Right, I probably could have worded it better. Basically, my problem is that my NFTs aren't appearing in Pinata:

I've updated my .env file but I'm still getting the same message.