Supported MIME Types¶

chardet identifies 62 MIME types across binary and text content. Binary files are identified by magic number signatures; text files get MIME types from the detection pipeline stage that identified them, or default to text/plain.

MIME Type	Detection Method
`application/epub+zip`	ZIP entry (META-INF/container.xml)
`application/gzip`	Magic (1f 8b)
`application/java-archive`	ZIP entry (META-INF/MANIFEST.MF)
`application/java-vm`	Magic (ca fe ba be, version >= 45)
`application/octet-stream`	Default for unknown binary
`application/pdf`	Magic (25 50 44 46)
`application/vnd.android.dex`	Magic (64 65 78 0a)
`application/vnd.android.package-archive`	ZIP entry (AndroidManifest.xml)
`application/vnd.apache.arrow.file`	Magic (41 52 52 4f 57 31)
`application/vnd.apache.parquet`	Magic (50 41 52 31)
`application/vnd.microsoft.portable-executable`	Magic (4d 5a)
`application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics`	ZIP mimetype entry
`application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation`	ZIP mimetype entry
`application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet`	ZIP mimetype entry
`application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text`	ZIP mimetype entry
`application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation`	ZIP entry (ppt/)
`application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet`	ZIP entry (xl/)
`application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document`	ZIP entry (word/)
`application/vnd.rar`	Magic (52 61 72 21)
`application/wasm`	Magic (00 61 73 6d)
`application/x-7z-compressed`	Magic (37 7a bc af 27 1c)
`application/x-bzip2`	Magic (42 5a 68)
`application/x-elf`	Magic (7f 45 4c 46)
`application/x-mach-binary`	Magic (fe ed fa ce/cf)
`application/x-sqlite3`	Magic (53 51 4c 69 74 65)
`application/x-tar`	ustar at offset 257
`application/x-wheel+zip`	ZIP entry (*.dist-info/)
`application/x-xz`	Magic (fd 37 7a 58 5a 00)
`application/zip`	Magic (50 4b 03 04)
`application/zstd`	Magic (28 b5 2f fd)
`audio/aiff`	FORM subtype (AIFF)
`audio/flac`	Magic (66 4c 61 43)
`audio/midi`	Magic (4d 54 68 64)
`audio/mp4`	ftyp brand (M4A)
`audio/mpeg`	Magic (49 44 33)
`audio/ogg`	Magic (4f 67 67 53)
`audio/wav`	RIFF subtype (WAVE)
`font/otf`	Magic (4f 54 54 4f)
`font/ttf`	Magic (00 01 00 00)
`font/woff`	Magic (77 4f 46 46)
`font/woff2`	Magic (77 4f 46 32)
`image/avif`	ftyp brand (avif)
`image/bmp`	Magic (42 4d)
`image/gif`	Magic (GIF89a)
`image/heic`	ftyp brand (heic)
`image/heif`	ftyp brand (mif1)
`image/jpeg`	Magic (ff d8 ff)
`image/jxl`	Magic (00 00 00 0c 4a 58 4c 20)
`image/png`	Magic (89 50 4e 47)
`image/qoi`	Magic (71 6f 69 66)
`image/tiff`	Magic (4d 4d 00 2a)
`image/vnd.adobe.photoshop`	Magic (38 42 50 53)
`image/vnd.microsoft.icon`	Magic (00 00 01 00)
`image/webp`	RIFF subtype (WEBP)
`text/html`	Markup charset (HTML meta tags)
`text/plain`	Default for text encodings
`text/x-python`	Markup charset (PEP 263 declaration)
`text/xml`	Markup charset (XML declaration)
`video/mp4`	ftyp brand (isom)
`video/quicktime`	ftyp brand (qt)
`video/webm`	Magic (1a 45 df a3)
`video/x-msvideo`	RIFF subtype (AVI)