diff --git a/clients/mediaconvert.go b/clients/mediaconvert.go
index dbee1ede9..454b3b93d 100644
--- a/clients/mediaconvert.go
+++ b/clients/mediaconvert.go
@@ -15,12 +15,15 @@ import (
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/credentials"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/mediaconvert"
+	"github.com/livepeer/catalyst-api/config"
 	xerrors "github.com/livepeer/catalyst-api/errors"
 	"github.com/livepeer/catalyst-api/log"
 	"github.com/livepeer/go-tools/drivers"
 	"golang.org/x/sync/errgroup"
 )
 
+const IPFS_PREFIX = "ipfs://"
+
 const pollDelay = 10 * time.Second
 const rateLimitedPollDelay = 15 * time.Second
 
@@ -266,10 +269,29 @@ func getFile(ctx context.Context, url string) (io.ReadCloser, error) {
 	if err == nil {
 		return DownloadOSURL(url)
 	} else {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(url, IPFS_PREFIX) {
+			cid := strings.TrimPrefix(url, IPFS_PREFIX)
+			return getFileIPFS(ctx, config.ImportIPFSGatewayURLs, cid)
+		}
 		return getFileHTTP(ctx, url)
 	}
 }
 
+// TODO(yondonfu): Refactor this logic out of this file so it can be used elsewhere
+func getFileIPFS(ctx context.Context, gateways []*url.URL, cid string) (io.ReadCloser, error) {
+	var content io.ReadCloser
+	var err error
+	for _, gateway := range gateways {
+		url := gateway.JoinPath(cid).String()
+		content, err = getFileHTTP(ctx, url)
+		if err == nil {
+			return content, nil
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to get file from IPFS import gateways with last error: %w", err)
+}
+
 func getFileHTTP(ctx context.Context, url string) (io.ReadCloser, error) {
 	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, "GET", url, nil)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/config/config.go b/config/config.go
index c714a831b..3523653cc 100644
--- a/config/config.go
+++ b/config/config.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package config
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"net/url"
 	"time"
 )
 
@@ -27,3 +28,5 @@ var TranscodingParallelJobs int = 2
 var TranscodingParallelSleep time.Duration = 713 * time.Millisecond
 
 var DownloadOSURLRetries uint64 = 10
+
+var ImportIPFSGatewayURLs []*url.URL = []*url.URL{}
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 919533b92..8facb7c2a 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
 	"net/url"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/livepeer/catalyst-api/api"
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ func main() {
 	externalTranscoderUrl := flag.String("external-transcoder", "", "URL for the external transcoder to be used by the pipeline coordinator. Only 1 implementation today for AWS MediaConvert which should be in the format: mediaconvert://key-id:key-secret@endpoint-host?region=aws-region&role=iam-role&s3_aux_bucket=s3://bucket")
 	vodPipelineStrategy := flag.String("vod-pipeline-strategy", string(pipeline.StrategyCatalystDominance), "Which strategy to use for the VOD pipeline")
 	flag.StringVar(&config.RecordingCallback, "recording", "http://recording.livepeer.com/recording/status", "Callback URL for recording start&stop events")
+	URLSliceVarFlag(&config.ImportIPFSGatewayURLs, "import-ipfs-gateway-urls", "https://w3s.link/ipfs/,https://ipfs.io/ipfs/,https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/", "Comma delimited ordered list of gateways (includes /ipfs/ suffix) to import IPFS files from")
 	flag.Parse()
 
 	if *mistJson {
@@ -65,6 +67,18 @@ func parseURL(s string, dest **url.URL) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func parseURLs(s string, dest *[]*url.URL) error {
+	strs := strings.Split(s, ",")
+	urls := make([]*url.URL, len(strs))
+	for i, str := range strs {
+		if err := parseURL(str, &urls[i]); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	*dest = urls
+	return nil
+}
+
 func URLVarFlag(fs *flag.FlagSet, dest **url.URL, name, value, usage string) {
 	if err := parseURL(value, dest); err != nil {
 		panic(err)
@@ -73,3 +87,12 @@ func URLVarFlag(fs *flag.FlagSet, dest **url.URL, name, value, usage string) {
 		return parseURL(s, dest)
 	})
 }
+
+func URLSliceVarFlag(dest *[]*url.URL, name, value, usage string) {
+	if err := parseURLs(value, dest); err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	flag.Func(name, usage, func(s string) error {
+		return parseURLs(s, dest)
+	})
+}