# Install detect-file-encoding-and-language with npm

Charset Detector - Detect the encoding and language of text files - Use it in the browser, with Node.js, or via CLI. Version 2.4.0 via npm; verified 2023-06-30.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:detect-file-encoding-and-language
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g detect-file-encoding-and-language
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:detect-file-encoding-and-language
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/detect-file-encoding-and-language>
- **Version:** 2.4.0
- **Source summary:** Charset Detector - Detect the encoding and language of text files - Use it in the browser, with Node.js, or via CLI
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/gignupg/Detect-File-Encoding-and-Language#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/gignupg/Detect-File-Encoding-And-Language>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/gignupg/Detect-File-Encoding-and-Language#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/detect-file-encoding-and-language/-/detect-file-encoding-and-language-2.4.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/gignupg/Detect-File-Encoding-and-Language/issues>
- **Published:** 2023-06-30T21:53:23.850Z
- **Last updated:** 2023-06-30T21:53:23.850Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- dfeal (cli)
- dfeal (alias)

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 2.4.0
- Package-manager updated: 2023-06-30
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/gignupg/Detect-File-Encoding-And-Language
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for detect-file-encoding-and-language. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 2.4.0
- **Version Count:** 45
- **Maintainers:** gignu
- **Author:** Linus Komnick
- **Publisher:** gignu
- **Integrity:** sha512-moFSAumrGlLCNU5jnaHyCzRUJJu0BCZunfL08iMbnDAgvNnxZad7+WZ26U2dsrIbGChlDPLKmEyEb2tEPUJFkw==
- **Shasum:** 0633b81fbe977c47b82b41c1732aa4534add8541
- **Unpacked Size:** 50,683
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2021-03-13T16:09:23.258Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2023-06-30T21:53:23.850Z
- **Modified At:** 2023-06-30T21:53:24.025Z


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## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph