mime-types

The ultimate javascript content-type utility.

Similar to the mime@1.x module, except:

• No fallbacks. Instead of naively returning the first available type,
  mime-types simply returns false, so do
  var type = mime.lookup('unrecognized') || 'application/octet-stream'.
• No new Mime() business, so you could do var lookup = require('mime-types').lookup.
• No .define() functionality
• Bug fixes for .lookup(path)

Otherwise, the API is compatible with mime 1.x.

Install

This is a Node.js module available through the
npm registry. Installation is done using the
npm install command:

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$ npm install mime-types

Note on MIME Type Data and Semver

This package considers the programmatic api as the semver compatibility. Additionally, the package which provides the MIME data
for this package (mime-db) also considers it's programmatic api as the semver contract. This means the MIME type resolution is not considered
in the semver bumps.

In the past the version of mime-db was pinned to give two decision points when adopting MIME data changes. This is no longer true. We still update the
mime-db package here as a minor release when necessary, but will use a ^ range going forward. 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 package operated, so we do not feel this is
a breaking change.

If you wish to pin your mime-db version you can do that with overrides via your package manager of choice. See their documentation for how to correctly configure that.

Adding Types

All mime types are based on mime-db,
so open a PR there if you'd like to add mime types.

API

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var mime = require('mime-types')

All functions return false if input is invalid or not found.

mime.lookup(path)

Lookup the content-type associated with a file.

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mime.lookup('json') // 'application/json'
mime.lookup('.md') // 'text/markdown'
mime.lookup('file.html') // 'text/html'
mime.lookup('folder/file.js') // 'text/javascript'
mime.lookup('folder/.htaccess') // false

mime.lookup('cats') // false

mime.contentType(type)

Create a full content-type header given a content-type or extension.
When given an extension, mime.lookup is used to get the matching
content-type, otherwise the given content-type is used. Then if the
content-type does not already have a charset parameter, mime.charset
is used to get the default charset and add to the returned content-type.

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mime.contentType('markdown') // 'text/x-markdown; charset=utf-8'
mime.contentType('file.json') // 'application/json; charset=utf-8'
mime.contentType('text/html') // 'text/html; charset=utf-8'
mime.contentType('text/html; charset=iso-8859-1') // 'text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'

// from a full path
mime.contentType(path.extname('/path/to/file.json')) // 'application/json; charset=utf-8'

mime.extension(type)

Get the default extension for a content-type.

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mime.extension('application/octet-stream') // 'bin'

mime.charset(type)

Lookup the implied default charset of a content-type.

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mime.charset('text/markdown') // 'UTF-8'

var type = mime.types[extension]

A map of content-types by extension.

[extensions...] = mime.extensions[type]

A map of extensions by content-type.

License

MIT