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JSON collection of scraped file extensions, along with their description and type, from FileInfo.com

File extensions

JSON collection of scraped file extensions, along with their description and type, from FileInfo.com.

The scraped data is available as JSON in two formats:

  1. Extensions by type

    This JSON dictionary has file types as keys that map to an array of extentsions which are of that type.

    {
        "3D image": [
            ".OBJ",
            ".3DS",
            ".3DM",
            ".MAX",
            ...
        ],
        "Audio": [
            ".AIF",
            ".M4A",
            ".MID",
            ".MP3",
            ...
        ],
        ...
    }
    
  2. Extensions with details

    This JSON dictionary has file extensions as keys that map to a dictionary containing the description of that extension and its type.

    {
        ".!BT": {
            "description": "BitTorrent Incomplete Download File",
            "type": "Misc"
        },
        ".!QB": {
            "description": "qBittorrent Partial Download File",
            "type": "Misc"
        },
        ".!SYNC": {
            "description": "BitTorrent Partially Synced File",
            "type": "Misc"
        },
        ...
    }
    

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.