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mime-db - 1.54.0 | npmpackage.info

mime-db

Media Type Database

1.54.0

1,166

MIT

JavaScript

22.60 kB

14,453,916,483 4.5

Installations

npm install mime-db

Developer Guide

BETA

Typescript

No

Module System

N/A

Min. Node Version

>= 0.6

Node Version

23.5.0

NPM Version

10.9.2 Score

99.7

Supply Chain

99.6

Quality

82.4

Maintenance

100

Vulnerability

100

License

Pull Requests

Open

25

Total

246

Closed

161

Merged

60

Issues

Open

17

Total

103

Closed

86

Releases

v1.54.0

Updated on Mar 18, 2025

v1.53.0

Updated on Nov 01, 2024

1.52.0

v1.52.0

Updated on Feb 21, 2022

1.51.0

v1.51.0

Updated on Nov 09, 2021

1.50.0

v1.50.0

Updated on Sep 16, 2021

1.49.0

v1.49.0

Updated on Jul 26, 2021

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Languages

JavaScript

JavaScript (100%)

Developer

jshttp

Download Statistics

Total Downloads

14,453,916,483

Last Day

5,436,968

Last Week

84,036,301

Last Month

363,611,828

Last Year

3,326,606,907

GitHub Statistics

MIT License

1,166 Stars

858 Commits

271 Forks

43 Watchers

23 Branches

103 Contributors

Updated on Jul 01, 2025

Bundle Size

156.82 kB

Minified

22.60 kB

Minified + Gzipped

Bundlephobia

Maintainers

View All 103 Contributors

Package Meta Information

Latest Version

1.54.0

Package Id

mime-db@1.54.0

Unpacked Size

220.28 kB

Size

28.84 kB

File Count

NPM Version

10.9.2

Node Version

23.5.0

Published on

Mar 18, 2025

Total Downloads

Cumulative downloads

Total Downloads

14,453,916,483

Last Day

-4.3%

5,436,968

Compared to previous day

Last Week

-5.8%

84,036,301

Compared to previous week

Last Month

10.1%

363,611,828

Compared to previous month

Last Year

32.4%

3,326,606,907

Compared to previous year

Weekly Downloads

Monthly Downloads

Yearly Downloads

Dev Dependencies

csv-parse eslint eslint-config-standard eslint-plugin-import eslint-plugin-markdown eslint-plugin-node eslint-plugin-promise eslint-plugin-standard media-typer mocha nyc stream-to-array undici

mime-db

This is a large database of mime types and information about them. It consists of a single, public JSON file and does not include any logic, allowing it to remain as un-opinionated as possible with an API. It aggregates data from the following sources:

Installation

1npm install mime-db

Database Download

If you intend to use this in a web browser, you can conveniently access the JSON file via jsDelivr, a popular CDN (Content Delivery Network). To ensure stability and compatibility, it is advisable to specify a release tag instead of using the 'master' branch. This is because the JSON file's format might change in future updates, and relying on a specific release tag will prevent potential issues arising from these changes.

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jshttp/mime-db@master/db.json

Usage

1var db = require('mime-db')
2
3// grab data on .js files
4var data = db['application/javascript']

Data Structure

The JSON file is a map lookup for lowercased mime types. Each mime type has the following properties:

.source - where the mime type is defined. If not set, it's probably a custom media type.
- apache - Apache common media types
- iana - IANA-defined media types
- nginx - nginx media types
.extensions[] - known extensions associated with this mime type.
.compressible - whether a file of this type can be gzipped.
.charset - the default charset associated with this type, if any.

If unknown, every property could be undefined.

Note on MIME Type Data and Semver

This package considers the programmatic api as the semver compatibility. This means the MIME type resolution is not considered in the semver bumps. This means that if you want to pin your mime-db data you will need to do it in your application. While this expectation was not set in docs until now, it is how the pacakge operated, so we do not feel this is a breaking change.

Contributing

The primary way to contribute to this database is by updating the data in one of the upstream sources. The database is updated from the upstreams periodically and will pull in any changes.

Registering Media Types

The best way to get new media types included in this library is to register them with the IANA. The community registration procedure is outlined in RFC 6838 section 5. Types registered with the IANA are automatically pulled into this library.

Direct Inclusion

If that is not possible / feasible, they can be added directly here as a "custom" type. To do this, it is required to have a primary source that definitively lists the media type. If an extension is going to be listed as associated with this media type, the source must definitively link the media type and extension as well.

To edit the database, only make PRs against src/custom-types.json or src/custom-suffix.json.

The src/custom-types.json file is a JSON object with the MIME type as the keys and the values being an object with the following keys:

compressible - leave out if you don't know, otherwise true/false to indicate whether the data represented by the type is typically compressible.
extensions - include an array of file extensions that are associated with the type.
notes - human-readable notes about the type, typically what the type is.
sources - include an array of URLs of where the MIME type and the associated extensions are sourced from. This needs to be a primary source; links to type aggregating sites and Wikipedia are not acceptable.

To update the build, run npm run build.

SAST

Determines if the project uses static code analysis.

0

Token-Permissions

Determines if the project's workflows follow the principle of least privilege.

Score

4.5

/10

Last Scanned on 2025-01-27T21:27:05Z

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