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filetype.py |Build Status| |PyPI| |Pyversions| |API|
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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
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- 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
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pip install filetype
API
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See `annotated API reference`_.
Examples
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Simple file type checking
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