.pod
4 claimants
2 primary
0 secondary
shared primary (2)
SWH popularity
Distinct files in the full Software Heritage archive (2026-06-04 export), dated by first appearance, following Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz (MSR 2025). Case-aggregated. citation.
555.2K
total files
80.1K
first seen 2021–2025 (14.4%)
2014
median year (half its files since)
Case variants in archive: .pod (554.3K), .POD (858), .Pod (11) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to pod; Pod 6 as primary by 2 authoritative claims.
Authoritative sources: ✓ Linguist ✗ Pygments · no claim ✗ Wikidata · no claim △ Wikipedia · secondary
Claimants (4)
Languages that list
.pod among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.| Language | Source | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| pod | linguist | primary |
| Pod 6 | linguist | primary |
| Fantom | wikipedia | proposed |
| Perl | wikipedia | proposed |
Wikidata says… (6)
File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL
entities that claim
.pod 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloodrayne game data archive Q105864861 file format | file format | — | application/octet-stream | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| Infernal Engine game data archive Q105864796 file format | file format | — | application/octet-stream | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| Open Project File Q60339399 file format | file format | — | — | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
Disambiguation rules (2)
Linguist heuristics that decide, by content, which language a
.pod file actually is.| Rule | Predicts | Kind | Predicates (truncated) | Measured on SWH |
|---|---|---|---|---|
h/linguist/.pod/0 | Pod 6 | predicates | [{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^[\\s&&[^\\r\\n]]*=(comment|begin pod|begin para|item\\d+)"]}] | |
h/linguist/.pod/1 | pod | default | [] |
SWH-mined examples (0)
No archived examples for .pod in our local mirror yet.