mime_types: The type registry

In zumime: Media Type Detection from Bytes and File Names

The type registry

Description

Every type zumime knows, with its parent, aliases, extensions and the kind of evidence that detects it.

Usage

mime_types()

Value

A data frame with one row per canonical type and columns type, parent (NA for the root, application/octet-stream), aliases and extensions (list columns of character vectors, the canonical extension first), category (the top-level type) and detected_by ("signature", "container", "text", "extension" or "registered").

See Also

mime_parent() for one type's lineage.

Other registry: mime_extensions(), mime_guess(), mime_is(), mime_parent()

Examples

types <- mime_types()
nrow(types)
types[types$type == "application/zip", ]

zumime documentation built on Nov. 12, 2026, 1:07 a.m.