.vcf
2 claimants
1 primary
1 secondary
unambiguous primary
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.
359.4K
total files
145.6K
first seen 2021–2025 (40.5%)
2020
median year (half its files since)
Case variants in archive: .vcf (359.1K), .VCF (338), .Vcf (1) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to vCard as primary by 1 authoritative claim.
Authoritative sources: ✓ Linguist ✗ Pygments · no claim △ Wikidata · secondary ✗ Wikipedia · no claim
Claimants (3)
Languages that list
.vcf among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.| Language | Source | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| vCard | linguist | primary |
| TSV | linguist | secondary |
| vCard | wikidata | secondary |
Wikidata says… (9)
File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL
entities that claim
.vcf 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vCard Q305941 file format standard for electronic business cards | file format | — | text/vcard | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| Variant Call Format Q7915770 text file format for genomic data | file format | — | — | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| Variant Call Format Q65595616 version 2.x of the VCF file format | file format | — | — | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
Disambiguation rules (2)
Linguist heuristics that decide, by content, which language a
.vcf file actually is.| Rule | Predicts | Kind | Predicates (truncated) | Measured on SWH |
|---|---|---|---|---|
h/linguist/.vcf/0 | TSV | predicates | [{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["\\A##fileformat=VCF"]}] | |
h/linguist/.vcf/1 | vCard | predicates | [{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["\\ABEGIN:VCARD"]}] |
SWH-mined examples (0)
No archived examples for .vcf in our local mirror yet.