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Small, dependency-free, fast Python package to infer binary file types checking the magic numbers signature

active 2023-08-212026-03-27 (UTC)

Complete coverage26,747 / 26,747 hourly files (100%) · 2 absent upstream2023-08-152026-09-02 (UTC)
Events
342
Pushes
16
Pull requests
33
Issues
26
Stars
177
Forks
23

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Line chart, 950 days from 2023-08-21 to 2026-03-27. Pushes: 16 total, peak 5 in a day. Pull requests: 33 total, peak 7 in a day. Issues: 26 total, peak 3 in a day. Comments: 50 total, peak 5 in a day. Stars: 177 total, peak 2 in a day.

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Stars, PRs, issues and forks are under-captured in the later part of this window. GH Archive progressively stopped capturing non-push events during 2026 — −95% or worse by the end of the window. Every series here except Pushes fades for that reason, so a decline above reflects the archive, not this repository. Pushes stay reliable throughout, so read them, and the contributor counts derived from them, as the real signal. Data health has the measurements.

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Recent activity

Latest issues, pull requests and releases

  • Pull request#200lpetre2026-01-10 17:45
  • Issue#196Emasoft2025-09-09 11:44
    [Feat Req] Function to check if a file is binary or text
  • Issue comment#188abionics2025-07-10 00:42
    New Version
  • Pull request#195h2non2025-05-02 18:31
  • Pull request#195lpetre2025-04-26 13:50
  • Issue#194miguel-martinr2025-02-01 00:41
    filetype.guess not working with bytes when used in AWS Lambda environment
  • Issue comment#192CatKasha2025-01-24 13:47
    False negative for a PDF?
  • Issue comment#192pavel-denisov-fraunhofer2025-01-24 09:12
    False negative for a PDF?
  • Issue#193eventlOwOp2024-12-15 06:03
    [feat request] SVG support
  • Issue comment#192CatKasha2024-10-22 04:54
    False negative for a PDF?
  • Issue comment#192conjuncts2024-10-22 04:12
    False negative for a PDF?
  • Issue comment#192CatKasha2024-10-22 04:06
    False negative for a PDF?
  • Issue comment#192conjuncts2024-10-22 03:56
    False negative for a PDF?
  • Issue comment#192CatKasha2024-10-22 03:43
    False negative for a PDF?
  • Issue comment#192CatKasha2024-10-21 14:57
    False negative for a PDF?
  • Issue#192conjuncts2024-10-21 04:11
    False negative for a PDF?
  • Pull request#191CatKasha2024-10-13 15:37
  • Issue comment#188GPHemsley-RELX2024-10-08 17:48
    New Version
  • Issue comment#190CatKasha2024-10-04 00:13
    Match against all 8 PNG file signature bytes
  • Issue comment#190sudhir-b2024-10-03 22:30
    Match against all 8 PNG file signature bytes
  • Issue comment#190CatKasha2024-10-02 21:07
    Match against all 8 PNG file signature bytes
  • Pull request#190sudhir-b2024-09-24 23:12
  • Pull request#189dependabot[bot]2024-09-09 22:49
  • Issue comment#182dependabot[bot]2024-09-05 03:43
    chore(deps): bump actions/upload-artifact from 2 to 4 in the github-actions group
  • Issue comment#182cclauss2024-09-05 03:43
    chore(deps): bump actions/upload-artifact from 2 to 4 in the github-actions group

Totals cover only the window loaded into ClickHouse and count events, not GitHub's lifetime totals — 177 stars here means stars gained during the window, not the repo's star count.