whatfile
Show detailed metadata for any file — images, audio, video, archives, PDFs, and more.
pip install whatfile
whatfile image.jpg song.mp3 video.mp4
Backends
| Format | Info shown | Required |
|---|---|---|
| JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, etc. | dimensions, color mode, format | Pillow (pip) |
| MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV, etc. | duration, bitrate, tags | tinytag (pip) or ffprobe |
| MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, etc. | codec, resolution, duration | ffprobe |
| ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ | file count, compression ratio | stdlib |
| pages, version, title, author | pypdf (pip) or pdfinfo | |
| Any file | size, permissions, MIME type | — |
Examples
whatfile photo.jpg
whatfile *.mp3
whatfile document.pdf archive.tar.gz script.py
License
MIT
1 maintainer
Metadata
1 maintainer
Release files for whatfile 1.0.0
For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.
Built distribution (wheel)
| File | Interpreter | ABI | Platform | Reset |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| whatfile-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl | Python 3 | none | any | Details |
Release files / whatfile-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
| Download URL | whatfile-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl |
|---|---|
| Size | 9.3 kB |
| Tags | Python 3 |
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SHA-256 checksum How to use checksums |
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BLAKE2b-256 checksum How to use checksums |
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Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? What is trusted publishing? |
No |
| Uploaded via |
twine/6.2.0 CPython/3.12.3
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