Package
is-gif
Check if a Buffer/Uint8Array is a GIF image
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 370.3k
- -24% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 0
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 5 years ago
- v4.0.1
- GitHub stars
- 30
- 3 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 0 / 0
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 1
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
370,281 downloads last week, 1,781,932 in the last month. The 12-month change of -24% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 07 in total
- Latest version
- 4.0.1, 2 Sept 20215 years ago
- First published
- 21 Apr 2014
- Last push to GitHub
- 18 Sept 20266 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 0
- Open pull requests
- 0
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 1
- Dependents on npm
- 45
Major versions
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 1 Sept 2021
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 2 Nov 2018
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 31 Dec 2017
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 14 Aug 2014
- v0 first release 0.1.0, 21 Apr 2014
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 4.0.1 | 2 Sept 2021 |
| 4.0.0 | 1 Sept 2021 |
| 3.0.0 | 2 Nov 2018 |
| 2.0.0 | 31 Dec 2017 |
| 1.0.0 | 14 Aug 2014 |
| 0.1.1 | 29 Apr 2014 |
| 0.1.0 | 21 Apr 2014 |
- Module format
- ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- None
- Node.js engine range
- ^12.20.0 || ^14.13.1 || >=16.0.0
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 2.6 kB
- Dependencies (0)
- None
npm install is-gif- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/is-gif@4.0.1/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/is-gif@4.0.1/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/is-gif@4.0.1
| Package | Weekly downloads | Gzip | Last release | Module | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| is-cwebp-readable | 149.3k | - | 7 years ago | - | - |
| imagemin | 873.3k | - | 1 year ago | ESM only | - |
Indexability: Indexed.