.m3u8
1 claimant
1 primary
0 secondary
unambiguous primary
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.
18.2M
total occurrences
183.2K
since 2019 (1.0%)
1970–2023
years active
Case variants in archive: .m3u8 (18.2M), .M3U8 (553), .M3u8 (4) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to M3U as primary by 1 authoritative claim.
Authoritative sources: △ Linguist · secondary ✗ Pygments · no claim ✓ Wikidata · Q1241738 ✗ Wikipedia · no claim
Claimants (2)
Languages that list
.m3u8 among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.| Language | Source | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| M3U | wikidata | primary |
| M3U | linguist | secondary |
Wikidata says… (1)
File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL
entities that claim
.m3u8 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.
| Format | Class (Wikidata P31) | Suggested label | MIME | Notes | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extended M3U playlist (UTF-8) Q105863791 file format | file format | — | audio/x-mpegurl | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
SWH-mined examples (0)
No archived examples for .m3u8 in our local mirror yet.