Package
is-binary-buffer
Returns true if a buffer is binary. Takes a buffer and does not read from the file system.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 20.2k
- -19% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 2
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 8 years ago
- v2.0.0
- GitHub stars
- 5
- 0 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 0 / 0
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
20,225 downloads last week, 102,744 in the last month. The 12-month change of -19% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- -
- Latest version
- 2.0.0, 7 Mar 20188 years ago
- First published
- -
- Last push to GitHub
- 7 Mar 20183,123 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 0
- Open pull requests
- 0
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
- Dependents on npm
- 9
Major versions
-
Recent releases
-
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- None
- Node.js engine range
- >=4
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 5.5 kB
- Dependencies (2)
kind-offile-type
npm install is-binary-buffer- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/is-binary-buffer@2.0.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/is-binary-buffer@2.0.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/is-binary-buffer@2.0.0
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