Package Health Score

77 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Influential project
maintenance
Sustainable
community
Sustainable

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Popularity

Influential project

GitHub Stars: 608
Forks: 107
Contributors: 40

Direct Usage Popularity

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package filetype, we found that it has been starred 608 times.

Security

No known security issues

Security and license risk for latest version

Release Date: Nov 2, 2022
Direct Vulnerabilities: 0
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Indirect Vulnerabilities: 0
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License Risk: 0
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All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

License

MIT

Security Policy

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Maintenance

Sustainable

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 39
Open PR: 5
Last Release: 1 year ago
Last Commit: 5 months ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of filetype based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Sustainable.

An important project maintenance signal to consider for filetype is that it hasn't seen any new versions released to PyPI in the past 12 months, and could be considered as a discontinued project, or that which receives low attention from its maintainers.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Sustainable

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 40
Funding: No

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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: ==3.5.*, ==3.6.*, ==3.7.*, ==3.8.*, ==3.9.*

Age: 8 years
Latest Release: 1 year ago
Dependencies: N/A
Versions: 21
Maintainers: 1
Wheels: OS Independent

Not sure how to use filetype?

To help you get started, we've collected the most common ways that filetype is being used within popular public projects.

h2non / filetype.py / tests / test_filetype.py View on Github

def test_guess_memoryview(self):
        buf = memoryview(bytearray([0xFF, 0xD8, 0xFF, 0x00, 0x08]))
        kind = filetype.guess(buf)
        self.assertTrue(kind is not None)
        self.assertEqual(kind.mime, 'image/jpeg')
        self.assertEqual(kind.extension, 'jpg')

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filetype.py

Small and dependency free Python package to infer file type and MIME type checking the magic numbers signature of a file or buffer.

This is a Python 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
Dependency free (just Python code, no C extensions, no libmagic bindings)
Cross-platform file recognition

Installation

pip install filetype

API

See annotated API reference.

Examples

Simple file type checking

import filetype

def main():
    kind = filetype.guess('tests/fixtures/sample.jpg')
    if kind is None:
        print('Cannot guess file type!')
        return

    print('File extension: %s' % kind.extension)
    print('File MIME type: %s' % kind.mime)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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
avif - image/avif

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

Document

doc - application/msword
docx - application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
odt - application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
xls - application/vnd.ms-excel
xlsx - application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
ods - application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
ppt - application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
pptx - application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
odp - application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation

Font

woff - application/font-woff
woff2 - application/font-woff
ttf - application/font-sfnt
otf - application/font-sfnt

Application

wasm - application/wasm

FAQs

What is filetype?

Infer file type and MIME type of any file/buffer. No external dependencies. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for filetype, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is filetype popular?

The python package filetype receives a total of 740,339 weekly downloads. As such, filetype popularity was classified as an influential project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is filetype well maintained?

We found indications that filetype maintenance is sustainable demonstrating some project activity. We saw a total of 40 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is filetype safe to use?

The python package filetype was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 26 April-2024, at 02:01 (UTC).

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