sindresorhus / file-type

Detect the file type of a file, stream, or data

Date Created 2014-04-24 (10 years ago)

Commits 562 (last one 5 hours ago)

Stargazers 3,855 (6 this week)

Watchers 30 (0 this week)

Forks 374

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RepositoryStats indexes 609,425 repositories, of these sindresorhus/file-type is ranked #13,011 (98th percentile) for total stargazers, and #73,500 for total watchers. Github reports the primary language for this repository as JavaScript, for repositories using this language it is ranked #1,867/66,861.

sindresorhus/file-type is also tagged with popular topics, for these it's ranked: javascript (#1,017/14093), nodejs (#322/7015)

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sindresorhus/file-type has 2 open pull requests on Github, 276 pull requests have been merged over the lifetime of the repository.

Github issues are enabled, there are 8 open issues and 361 closed issues.

There have been 85 releases, the latest one was published on 2025-01-31 (4 hours ago)

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file magic buffer detect nodejs file-types javascript uint8array magic-numbers

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updated: 2025-01-31 @ 06:40pm, id: 19105307 / R_kgDOASOGGw