Readable Names

[skipjack]

Apologies if someone already asked this, but I didn't see anything in this repo's issues or in mime-types.

Would you be open to PRs adding the generally accepted "readable name" for each mime-type declaration? By that I mean something similar to the Kind of Document column here, for example:

db.json

{
  "application/javascript": {
    "source": "iana",
    "charset": "UTF-8",
    "compressible": true,
    "extensions": ["js","mjs"],
    "name": "JavaScript"
  },
  "application/vnd.microsoft.portable-executable": {
    "source": "iana",
    "name": "Portable Executable"
  },
  "application/vnd.ms-excel": {
    "source": "iana",
    "compressible": false,
    "extensions": ["xls","xlm","xla","xlc","xlt","xlw"],
    "name": "Microsoft Excel"
  },
}

This package (and the associated mime-types package) are best thing I've found as far as mapping mime types or extensions to one another and I think it would be great if we could add extension => name and mime-type => name to the list of available features.

[dougwilson]

Only if there is an automated method to get these names from somewhere else; I'm not interested in maintaining them by hand or arguing with folks on what their names should be.

[skipjack]

Fair enough, I'll look into that.

[skipjack]

This site is pretty comprehensive, what if we scraped it from here:

https://fileinfo.com/filetypes/common

[dougwilson]

Probably not without making some kind of arrangement with the site owners first. From their terms of use (https://fileinfo.com/terms):

You may not use any kind of automatic device or program to access or copy any portion of FileInfo.com.

[skipjack]

😢 good catch. Ok I'll look into it more.

[skipjack]

Found a few more, nothing as good as the first one yet though:

• https://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/fileextensionsfull.asp
• https://www.online-convert.com/file-type
• https://www.lifewire.com/file-extensions-and-mime-types-3469109

And we'd have to make sure scraping is ok with those sites as well too. I also sent a message to the maintainers of the first site to see if they'd be open to sharing.

[skipjack]

I think I found the most promising candidate yet:

https://github.com/lukaszsliwa/friendly_mime

The license seems like it would allow for our purposes.