https://github.com/pfrazee/identify-filetype

Identifies the file-type of a buffer
https://github.com/pfrazee/identify-filetype

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Identifies the file-type of a buffer

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pfrazee/identify-filetype
• Owner: pfrazee
• Created: 2016-06-04T19:05:05.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-06-04T19:05:25.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-17T17:37:07.840Z (2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 1.95 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# identify-filetype

Identifies the file-type of a buffer using the [magic-number signatures at the start of the file](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_file_signatures).

```js

var identify = require('identify-filetype')

console.log(identify(some_buffer)) // => string | false

```

**Supported types:**

jpg

png

gif

bmp

tif

tif

nif

ico

psd

rar

zip

gz

msi

iso

rtf

avi

wmv

wma

swf

flv

mid

pdf

doc

docx

mp3

svg

html

**Tested:**

tif

pdf

psd

gif

jpg

png

bmp

tif

ico

rar

docx

gz

doc

rtf

svg

html