mimetypeplus

A simple python module focused on easy MIME type manipulation and detection.

Documentation

Setup

This module can be installed using:

pip install mimetypeplus

Usage

This module is intended to be used only as a module, and can be imported after installing using the traditional process:

from mimetypeplus import MimeType

Create a MIME Type Object

mime = MimeType("application/json")

Identify MIME Types

Quickly determine the MIME type of content from various sources:

# Identify MIME type from a file path
mime = MimeType.from_path("data.json")
mime = MimeType.from_path(__file__)

# Identify MIME type from a URI
mime = MimeType.from_uri("https://example.com/api/data")

Facet Manipulation

# Check if the MIME type is experimental
if mime.experimental_facet:
    print("This is an experimental MIME type.")

# Set a vendor-specific facet
mime.facet = "vnd"

Quickly Find File Extensions

extension = mime.to_extention()
print(f"The file extension for this MIME type is '{extension}'")

And More

There are a handfull of other ease of use features that this module provides, feel free to reference the documentation for more information.

Licence

This is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0) Licence. See the Licence file in this repository for more information.

Contribute

Contributions are always welcome! Use the github repository to report issues and contribute to this project.

Credits

While not required, feel free to credit "Markus Hammer" (or just "Markus") if you find this code or script useful for whatever you may be doing with it.

Security Policy

While the python source code will be actively maintained, any binary files (if at all provided) are in no way supported. These are provided as a courtesy and are not intended to be the main usage of this software. Please keep this in mind when choosing how you wish to use this software.

Supported Versions

Reporting a Vulnerability

Please report any issues to the email 107761433+MarkusHammer(THEN THE @ SYMBOL HERE)users.noreply.github.com