NAME

    MIME::Detect - MIME file type identification

SYNOPSIS

      my $mime = MIME::Detect->new();
    
      for my $file (@ARGV) {
        print sprintf "%s: %s\n", $file, $_->mime_type
            for $mime->mime_types($file);
      };

METHODS

 MIME::Detect->new( ... )

      my $mime = MIME::Detect->new();

    Creates a new instance and reads the database distributed with this
    module.

      my $mime = MIME::Detect->new(
          files => [
              '/usr/share/freedesktop.org/mimeinfo.xml',
              't/mimeinfo.xml',
          ],
      );

 $mime->read_database %options

      $mime->read_database(
          xml => MIME::Detect::FreeDesktopOrgDB->get_xml,
          files => [
              'mymime/mymime.xml',
              '/usr/share/freedesktop.org/mime.xml',
          ],
      );

    If you want rules in addition to the default database included with the
    distribution, you can load the rules from another file. Passing in
    multiple filenames will join the multiple databases. Duplicate file
    type definitions will not be detected and will be returned as
    duplicates.

    The rules will be sorted according to the priority specified in the
    database file(s).

    By default, the XML database stored alongside
    MIME::Detect::FreeDesktopOrgDB will be loaded after all custom files
    have been loaded. To pass in a different fallback database, either pass
    in a reference to the XML string or the name of a package that has an
    get_xml subroutine.

    To prevent loading the default database, pass undef for the xml key.

 $mime->mime_types

        my @types = $mime->mime_types( 'some/file' );
        for( @types ) {
            print $type->mime_type, "\n";
        };

    Returns the list of MIME types according to their likelyhood. The first
    type is the most likely. The returned objects are of type
    MIME::Detect::Type.

 $mime->mime_type

        my $type = $mime->mime_type( 'some/file' );
        print $type->mime_type, "\n"
            if $type;

    Returns the most likely type of a file as MIME::Detect::Type. Returns
    undef if no file type can be determined.

SEE ALSO

    https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info/ - the
    website where the XML file is distributed

    File::MimeInfo - module to read your locally installed and converted
    MIME database

    File::LibMagic - if you can install libmagic and the appropriate magic
    files

    File::MMagic - if you have the appropriate magic files

    File::MMagic::XS - if you have the appropriate magic files but want
    more speed

    File::Type - inlines its database, unsupported since 2004?

    File::Type::WebImages - if you're only interested in determining
    whether a file is an image or not

    MIME::Types - for extension-based detection

REPOSITORY

    The public repository of this module is
    http://github.com/Corion/filter-signatures.

SUPPORT

    The public support forum of this module is https://perlmonks.org/.

BUG TRACKER

    Please report bugs in this module via the RT CPAN bug queue at
    https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Filter-signatures or
    via mail to filter-signatures-Bugs@rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

    Max Maischein corion@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT (c)

    Copyright 2015-2016 by Max Maischein corion@cpan.org.

LICENSE

    This module is released under the same terms as Perl itself.