archive-type
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Detect the archive type of a Buffer/Uint8Array
$ npm install --save archive-type
const archiveType = require('archive-type');
const readChunk = require('read-chunk');
const buffer = readChunk.sync('unicorn.zip', 0, 262);
archiveType(buffer);
//=> {ext: 'zip', mime: 'application/zip'}
Returns an Object with:
ext - One of the supported file typesmime - The MIME typeOr null when no match.
Type: Buffer Uint8Array
It only needs the first 262 bytes.
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Detect the archive type of a Buffer/Uint8Array
The npm package archive-type receives a total of 1,334,696 weekly downloads. As such, archive-type popularity was classified as popular.
We found that archive-type demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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