Solidity - Read Metadata?

Question

I have function in a smart contract that needs to know a specific value from the metadata which I will publish on IPFS. Is there a way to parse it through or to get the value from the metadata?

thanks!

Answer 1

This is not possible, because it would violate the deterministic principle of a blockchain.

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Answer 2

You would have to use oracles to access such data. Here an example for such an oracle: https://blog.chain.link/fetch-ipfs-api-data-token-distribution/