go-magic

Go library for getting MIME type using libmagic

Installing

go get github.com/vimeo/go-magic/magic

Dependencies

libmagic
URL: http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
Ubuntu: apt-get install libmagic-dev
CentOS: yum install file-devel

Usage

• Create some custom magic files (e.g. ~/magicfiles)
• Add the default system magic file dir
  • magic.AddMagicDir(magic.GetDefaultDir())
• Add the custom magic file dir
  • magic.AddMagicDir("~/magicfiles")
• Get MIME type with either one of:
  • magic.MimeFromFile(filename)
  • magic.MimeFromBytes(data)

API Documentation

http://godoc.org/github.com/vimeo/go-magic/magic