.cache

0 claimants 0 primary 0 secondary

SWH popularity

From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.

46.6M
total occurrences
14.7M
since 2019 (31.5%)
1970–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .cache (45.7M), .Cache (907.2K), .CACHE (32) — aggregated above.

Help label this extension

No PL in our taxonomy claims this extension. If you know what it's used for, fill the form below. Vocabulary reference: docs/extension_labels.md.

Auto-suggested label. Built from tools/build_extension_review_queue.py's heuristic categorisation (file-format families, numeric / SHA filenames, etc.). One click to pre-fill the form below — edit if it's off.
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What happens after I submit?
  1. A new GitHub issue is opened in this repo with your form contents in a structured YAML block and the label ext-review. Your GitHub login becomes the annotator; the issue's created_at is the submission timestamp.
  2. A curator script (tools/process_extension_labels.py) fetches all ext-review issues and writes their parsed contents into data/derived/extension_labels.csv with curator_status="new". Until this script runs, your submission lives only as the GitHub issue.
  3. Your submission shows up on the curator triage page (/review/curator/) under "new". Maintainers review the issue (comment, ask for clarification, accept or reject) and edit extension_labels.csv to set curator_status to accepted.
  4. For pl/<id> labels, build_pl_taxonomy.py promotes accepted labels into ext_claim.csv with source="manual_review:<your-login>" and strength="proposed". The next site rebuild then shows your claim on this extension's page and on the language's page.
  5. Friendly-name + reference-URL labels (e.g. binary:image for .png) are not promoted into ext_claim.csv (they aren't PL claims) but are surfaced on this page's "Prior labels" table so anyone landing here sees them next to the auto-detected category.

In short: submitting opens an issue (provenance), and a small ingestion pipeline turns issues into rows the site renders. The loop is currently manual (the curator script must be run by a maintainer); GitHub Actions could automate it on each new issue.

Wikidata says… (4)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .cache on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗
FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
CAChe MolStruct Q28532082
file format
file formatchemical/x-cacheUse as new PL ↗
Magick Persistent Cache (.cache file) Q28206538
file format
file formatUse as new PL ↗
Magick Persistent Cache bitmap Q105858811
file format
file formatapplication/octet-streamUse as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (2)

Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.
WebAPI.AssemblyInfoInputs.cache · 41 B · seen 230× in SWH
predicted: unclassified via unknown-ext
swh:1:cnt:561f2638e6cac18d753ece20a5177d3a8ff57c26;origin=https://github.com/JCSIVO/Basic-NET-database-API-project;anchor=swh:1:rev:67f8f9da37d4f6edc9ba6f8e6fac717afc161217;path=/obj/Debug/net6.0/JCSIVODevWebApi.AssemblyInfoInputs.cache
Open in SWH · Raw bytes
9.AssemblyInfoInputs.cache · 41 B · seen 184× in SWH
predicted: unclassified via unknown-ext
swh:1:cnt:809956c6ade1d69cf43d59efa6403f3af761b6c9;origin=https://github.com/Apress/test-your-skills-cs-programming;anchor=swh:1:rev:935b62af12be27448c1b919bd26b8dcb59822e94;path=/Chapter9/9.P9/obj/Debug/net7.0/9.P9.AssemblyInfoInputs.cache
Open in SWH · Raw bytes
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