File-Type Files

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

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Name	Modified	Size	InfoDownloads / Week
Parent folder
README.md	2025-05-23	722 Bytes	0
v21.0.0 source code.tar.gz	2025-05-23	67.6 MB	0
v21.0.0 source code.zip	2025-05-23	67.6 MB	1
Totals: 3 Items		135.2 MB	1

Breaking

Require Node.js 20 24aec1f
Drop Adobe Illustrator (.ai) detection support (#743) af169f3
Correct Matroska (video) MIME-type to formal IANA registration (#753) f53f5ff
Correct FLAC MIME-type to formal IANA registration (#755) b9fda36
Correct Apache Parquet MIME-type to formal IANA registration (#748) 98e3f8e
Correct Apache Arrow MIME-type to formal IANA registration (#754) 7184775

Improvements

Allow options to be directly passed to exported functions (#752) d264029
Add mpegOffsetTolerance option (#646) c40840a

Fixes

Fix detection of some PAX TAR formats (#762) 574d0d6

https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-type/compare/v20.5.0...v21.0.0

Source: README.md, updated 2025-05-23

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