Media Types

This project contains a list of media types (see media folder), and tools to libraries for different languages from those files.

Tools

Building tools

First, you need to install the dependencies:

cd tools
cd generator

go get
go build -o bin/generator

Getting Help

You can get help by running the generator with the --help flag:

bin/generator --help

Generating libraries

To generate a library, run the generator with the language you want to generate for, and the output directory:

bin/generator go --output ~/go/src/github.com/wernerstrydom/go-mediatypes

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Please open an issue or a pull request. The media directory contains the source files for the media types.

It consists of the following fields:

• type: The media type
• extensions: A list of extensions for the media type, if any
• registered: The date the media type was registered with IANA
• format: The optional format of the media type. For example, you may have a media type application/vnd.example+json, where the format is application/json.

Areas of improvement

• Add more languages (only go is supported at the moment)
• Improve the quality of the data by adding
  • file extensions
  • removing duplicates
  • supporting aliases

License

MIT

Author

Werner Strydom

Acknowledgements

This library is based on the following sources:

• IANA Media Types
• https://s-randomfiles.s3.amazonaws.com/mime/allMimeTypes.txt