node-formidable/formidable

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The most used, flexible, fast and streaming parser for multipart form data. Supports uploading to serverless environments, AWS S3, Azure, GCP or the filesystem. Used in production.

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Forks: 689
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 27
Avg merge: 3d 7h
Merged PRs (30d): 2

Dominant language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 8, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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27 issues indexed so far

Multipart parsing does not ignore CRLF in base64 properly Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

node-formidable/formidable#1120 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Add virus scanning example to documentation Open

Priority: Medium Type: Maintenance

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

node-formidable/formidable#1098 · 2 comments · Opened May 14, 2026
Bug: JSON parser incorrectly triggered by "json" in multipart boundary Open

Area: streams bug Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

node-formidable/formidable#1092 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2026
Question: How to use inside Google Cloud Run? Open

Status: Accepted Type: Documentation Type: Enhancement Type: Question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

node-formidable/formidable#1029 · 11 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2025
Attaching 'data' listeners immediately Open

Area: streams bug Status: Accepted Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

node-formidable/formidable#1011 · 8 comments · Opened May 16, 2025
trimmed v3 benchmarks Open

Area: APIs Area: streams Priority: Medium Status: In Progress Type: Enhancement Type: Maintenance

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

node-formidable/formidable#996 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 25, 2025
RFC: Add option to treat small text/plain files as "fields" Open

Area: APIs Priority: Medium Status: Available Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

node-formidable/formidable#991 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 18, 2025
Specific file names cause the extension to not be set correctly with options.keepExtensions "test(.123).pdf" Open

Area: APIs Area: Security Priority: Medium Status: Completed Status: In Progress Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

node-formidable/formidable#980 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 3, 2024
How to wait for the result of writeHandler in a formidable file upload request? Open

Area: files Area: streams Priority: Low Status: Available Type: Question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

node-formidable/formidable#977 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2024
Convert 'firstValues' helper into an option for Formidable constructor. Open

Area: APIs Status: Accepted Status: Available

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

node-formidable/formidable#973 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 2, 2024
maxFileSize not working as it should Open

Area: APIs Priority: Medium Status: Accepted Type: Bug

node-formidable/formidable#971 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 4, 2024
firstValues export in index Open

Area: APIs good first issue Priority: Medium

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

node-formidable/formidable#969 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 14, 2024
Get total file size Open

Status: Proposal Type: Discussions

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

node-formidable/formidable#925 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 16, 2023
arabic input is not parsing Open

Status: In Progress Type: Question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

node-formidable/formidable#917 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 29, 2022
Refactor: Consider removing usage of setTimeout Open

Area: files Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

node-formidable/formidable#894 · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 9, 2022
HTTP2 ClientHttp2Stream support Open

Type: Documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

node-formidable/formidable#891 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 4, 2022
Notes on/for v3 / v4 Open

Priority: Medium Status: In Progress Status: Proposal Type: Maintenance

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

node-formidable/formidable#830 · 24 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2022
Include typings for Typescript, for V2/V3 of Formidable Open

Priority: Medium Status: Accepted Status: In Progress Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

node-formidable/formidable#774 · 14 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Nov 2, 2021
Release Lines and Release Process Open

Status: In Progress Type: Discussions Type: Maintenance

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

node-formidable/formidable#769 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2021
Formidable detects MIME-type according to the file extension and not by the real content Open

Area: files Priority: High Status: Accepted Status: In Progress Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

node-formidable/formidable#749 · 18 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 10, 2021
Support serverless environments Open

Area: APIs Priority: High Status: Proposal Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

node-formidable/formidable#594 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 27, 2020
Looking for guidance parsing one part of a multipart as raw data even though mime-type is tsv Open

Priority: Low Status: Available Type: Discussions

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

node-formidable/formidable#570 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 31, 2020
Documentation: examples could use a readme file Open

good first issue Priority: Low Status: Available Type: Documentation

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

node-formidable/formidable#479 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 26, 2018
How to halt formidable.parse Open

Area: APIs Priority: Low Status: Available Type: Discussions Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

node-formidable/formidable#457 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 5, 2018
Issue when parsing large files Open

Area: streams Priority: Medium Status: Available Type: Bug Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

node-formidable/formidable#449 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 27, 2017
Maintainer Wanted Open

Type: Maintenance

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

node-formidable/formidable#412 · 58 comments · 17 reactions · Opened Jan 11, 2017
Support parsing of multipart/byteranges Open

Area: APIs Priority: Low Status: Available Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

node-formidable/formidable#390 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 20, 2016

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