Is there a resource that lists ALL the mimeTypes in existence?
I have found a few places with under 1000 mimeTypes, but then they still don't include common ones like .rar, .fla, .rb, .docx!
Does anyone have a COMPLETE list of mimetypes? Not down to the most obsure "company-only" ones, but at least all of the ones we might use.
Also, I'm looking for a list that maps file extensions to mimeTypes.
User Paul Tarjan said in a comment:
There is a pretty good list on stdicon.com : stdicon.com/mimetypes
This website is no longer available, but the most recent archive is https://web.archive.org/web/20161015175648/http://www.stdicon.com/mimetypes
Note that this site doesn't mention "application/x-zip-compressed" (and it's not because of the escaping of slashes either) so it's not perfect.
I took the list from Apache mime.types as of Fri Sep 29 15:10:29 2017 UTC and wrote a script to convert it to a json mapping. The json is too big for stackoverflow answer. You can find it here mimes.json.
script to generate the mapping:
# mime_to_json.py
# get the mime.types from
# http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.types?view=markup
import sys
import re
import json
mapping = {}
with open(sys.argv[1], "r") as handle:
for line in handle:
line = line.strip()
if line[0] == "#":
continue
parts = re.split("\s+", line)
mime = parts[0]
del parts[0]
for ext in parts:
mapping[ext] = mime
print(json.dumps(mapping, indent=4, sort_keys=True))