Small and dependency free package to infer file type and MIME type checking the magic numbers signature of a file or buffer.
This is a Rust port from filetype Go package.
Features
- Simple and friendly API
- Supports a wide range of file types
- Provides file extension and MIME type inference
- File discovery by extension or MIME type
- File discovery by kind (image, video, audio…)
- Pluggable: add new custom type matchers
- Fast, even processing large files
- Only first 261 bytes representing the max file header is required, so you can just pass a list of bytes
- Cross-platform file recognition
Supported types
Image
- dwg -
image/vnd.dwg - xcf -
image/x-xcf - jpg -
image/jpeg - jpx -
image/jpx - png -
image/png - apng -
image/apng - gif -
image/gif - webp -
image/webp - cr2 -
image/x-canon-cr2 - tif -
image/tiff - bmp -
image/bmp - jxr -
image/vnd.ms-photo - psd -
image/vnd.adobe.photoshop - ico -
image/x-icon - heic -
image/heic
Video
- 3gp -
video/3gpp - mp4 -
video/mp4 - m4v -
video/x-m4v - mkv -
video/x-matroska - webm -
video/webm - mov -
video/quicktime - avi -
video/x-msvideo - wmv -
video/x-ms-wmv - mpg -
video/mpeg - flv -
video/x-flv
Audio
- aac -
audio/aac - mid -
audio/midi - mp3 -
audio/mpeg - m4a -
audio/mp4 - ogg -
audio/ogg - flac -
audio/x-flac - wav -
audio/x-wav - amr -
audio/amr - aiff -
audio/x-aiff
Archive
- br -
application/x-brotli - rpm -
application/x-rpm - dcm -
application/dicom - epub -
application/epub+zip - zip -
application/zip - tar -
application/x-tar - rar -
application/x-rar-compressed - gz -
application/gzip - bz2 -
application/x-bzip2 - 7z -
application/x-7z-compressed - xz -
application/x-xz - pdf -
application/pdf - exe -
application/x-msdownload - swf -
application/x-shockwave-flash - rtf -
application/rtf - eot -
application/octet-stream - ps -
application/postscript - sqlite -
application/x-sqlite3 - nes -
application/x-nintendo-nes-rom - crx -
application/x-google-chrome-extension - cab -
application/vnd.ms-cab-compressed - deb -
application/x-deb - ar -
application/x-unix-archive - Z -
application/x-compress - lzo -
application/x-lzop - lz -
application/x-lzip - lz4 -
application/x-lz4 - zstd -
application/zstd
Font
- woff -
application/font-woff - woff2 -
application/font-woff - ttf -
application/font-sfnt - otf -
application/font-sfnt
Application
- wasm -
application/wasm