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file-type vulnerabilities

Detect the file type of a file, stream, or data
Licenses: MIT
Published: 11 years ago Last updated: 3 days ago Latest version: 21.3.0 Latest non-vulnerable version: 21.3.0
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Package Health Score

97/100
  • securityNo known security issues
  • popularityKey ecosystem project
  • maintenanceHealthy
  • communityActive

Maintenance

HEALTHY

Commit Frequency

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Open Issues
2
Open PR
1
New PRS
1
Last Release
3 days ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Maintainers
1

Further analysis of the maintenance status of file-type based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that file-type demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Popularity

KEY ECOSYSTEM PROJECT
Weekly downloads (19.1M)
GitHub Stars
4.2k
Forks
396
Contributors
120

The npm package file-type receives a total of 19,086,253 downloads a week. As such, we scored file-type popularity level to be Key ecosystem project.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package file-type, we found that it has been starred 4,197 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

ACTIVE
Readme.md
Yes
Contributing.md
Yes
Code of Conduct
Yes
Contributors
120
Funding
Yes
LICENSE
MIT

A good and healthy external contribution signal for file-type project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

License

MIT>=0;
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Direct Vulnerabilities

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Security

NO KNOWN SECURITY ISSUES
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No vulnerabilities found

No vulnerabilities found in the latest version

There are 1 total vulnerabilities, but none affect the latest version (21.3.0)

Package versions

163 VERSIONS IN TOTAL See all versions
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21.3.04 Jan, 2026
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21.0.023 May, 2025
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20.5.026 Apr, 2025
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file-type dependencies

4 IN TOTAL
@tokenizer/inflatestrtok3token-typesuint8array-extras

file-type development dependencies

8 IN TOTAL
@tokenizer/token@types/nodeavacommonmarkget-streamnoop-streamtsdxo