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.
7z
bz2
gz
rar
tar
zip
xz
gz
MIT © Kevin Mårtensson