README.md

Magika JavaScript library

Use Magika in the browser or in Node!

Installing MagikaJS

npm install magika

Using MagikaJS

Simple usage in Node:

import { readFile } from "fs/promises";
import { Magika } from "magika";

const data = await readFile("some file");
const magika = new Magika();
await magika.load();
const prediction = await magika.identifyBytes(data);
console.log(prediction);

Simple usage in the browser:

import { Magika } from "magika";

const file = new File(["# Hello I am a markdown file"], "hello.md");
const fileBytes = new Uint8Array(await file.arrayBuffer());
const magika = new Magika();
await magika.load();
const prediction = await magika.identifyBytes(fileBytes);
console.log(prediction);

For more, see our documentation.

Commmand-line tool

Please use the official CLI (with pip install magika) as it's considerably faster than this one. Read more about that in the main README. This one is useful to load the TensorflowJS model and see that it works as expected.

Install it with npm install -g magika. You can then run it by executing magika-js <some files>

Magika JS - file type detection with ML. https://google.github.io/magika

Arguments:
  paths                      Paths of the files to detect

Options:
  --json-output              Format output in JSON
  --model-url <model-url>    Model URL (default: "https://google.github.io/magika/model/model.json")
  --config-url <config-url>  Config  URL (default: "https://google.github.io/magika/model/config.json")
  -h, --help                 display help for command

Reporting false positives

Please open an issue on Github.

Citation

If you use this software for your research, please cite it as:

@software{magika,
author = {Fratantonio, Yanick and Bursztein, Elie and Invernizzi, Luca and Zhang, Marina and Metitieri, Giancarlo and Kurt, Thomas and Galilee, Francois and Petit-Bianco, Alexandre and Farah, Loua and Albertini, Ange},
title = {{Magika content-type scanner}},
url = {https://github.com/google/magika}
}

Development

Using the model hosted On Github:

yarn install
yarn run bin -- README.md

Using the local model:

yarn install
(cd ../website; yarn install; yarn run dev) &
yarn run bin --model-url http://localhost:5173/magika/model/model.json --config-url http://localhost:5173/magika/model/config.json ../tests_data/mitra/*