FileSignatures
A small library for detecting the type of a file based on header signature (also known as magic number). (by neilharvey)
mimesniffer
A MIME type sniffer for Go. (by aofei)
| FileSignatures | mimesniffer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | - | |
| 275 | 33 | |
| 2.2% | - | |
| 8.1 | 0.0 | |
| 29 days ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C# | Go | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
FileSignatures
Posts with mentions or reviews of FileSignatures.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-03.
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Verify file type from file content
There seem to be a few in nuget, the issue is they only cover a very few filetypes, presumably because the authors didn't want to spend gazillions of hours typing all the data in. This one might be a good base if you wanted to fork or contribute to it: https://github.com/neilharvey/FileSignatures/
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What is the best way to validate and get the length of an aac file with asp.net core 5 running on Linux?
https://github.com/neilharvey/FileSignatures is such a package that you can use to detect the actual file type and you can extend it to detect custom signature.
mimesniffer
Posts with mentions or reviews of mimesniffer.
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and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning mimesniffer yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing FileSignatures and mimesniffer you can also consider the following projects:
NAudio - Audio and MIDI library for .NET
filedriller
SignHere - File signature validator for C#.
filetype - Fast, dependency-free Go package to infer binary file types based on the magic numbers header signature
FFmpeg.NET - .NET wrapper for common ffmpeg tasks
xlsx - Go library for reading and writing XLSX files.