filetype VS mimetype

Compare filetype vs mimetype and see what are their differences.

filetype

Fast, dependency-free Go package to infer binary file types based on the magic numbers header signature (by h2non)

mimetype

A fast Golang library for media type and file extension detection, based on magic numbers (by gabriel-vasile)
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filetype mimetype
2 3
1,987 1,377
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4.2 6.1
16 days ago 1 day ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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filetype

Posts with mentions or reviews of filetype. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-04.

mimetype

Posts with mentions or reviews of mimetype. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing filetype and mimetype you can also consider the following projects:

xlsx - Go library for reading and writing XLSX files.

wire - Strict Runtime Dependency Injection for Golang

coop - Cheat sheet for some of the common concurrent flows in Go

go-bind-plugin - go-bind-plugin generates API for exported plugin symbols (-buildmode=plugin) - go1.8+ only (http://golang.org/pkg/plugin)

fastlz - Wrap over FastLz for GoLang

ngrok - Introspected tunnels to localhost

delve - Delve is a debugger for the Go programming language.

mc - Simple | Fast tool to manage MinIO clusters :cloud:

backscanner - A scanner similar to bufio.Scanner, but it reads and returns lines in reverse order, starting at a given position and going backward.

peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder