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Figshare accepts the upload of any file type or format. Here are some nice examples:

Figshare aims to preview in the browser as many file formats as possible. The following table lists all of these formats. You can search Figshare for examples of each extension using a query in the Figshare search bar like 

:extension: kml

viewer typethumbnail typecontrolsextensions
archivesvg glyphtgz, zip, rar, iso, tar, bz2, gz, xz, txz, 7z
audiosvg glyphmp3, wav, aif, aiff, wma
datasetsvg glyphcsv, sav, tsv, xls, xlsb, xlsx
documentgeneratedzoom, paginationdoc, docx, dxf, odp, ods, odt, pages, pdf, rtf, ttf, xps, epub
imagegeneratedzoomjpg, jpeg, png, gif, tif, svg, bmp, psd, tiff, ai, lsm
jupytersvg glyphipynb
kmlsvg glyphkml
moleculesvg glyphcif, pdb, xyz
presentationgeneratedpaginationppt, pptx, pptm
videogenerated3gp, avi, flv, gvi, m2v, m4v, mkv, mov, mp4, mpg, ogv, webm, wmv, mpeg, liveslide.zip
viewer3dsvg glyphobj, stl, ply, u3d
txtsvg glyphfont zoom1c, accesslog, armasm, arm, avrasm, actionscript, as, apache, apacheconf, applescript, osascript, asciidoc, adoc, aspectj, autohotkey, autoit, axapta, bash, sh, zsh, basic, brainfuck, bf, cs, csharp, cpp, c, cc, h, c++, h++, hpp, cal, cos, cls, cmake, cmake.in, csp, css, capnproto, capnp, clojure, clj, coffeescript, coffee, cson, iced, crmsh, crm, pcmk, crystal, cr, d, dns, zone, bind, dos, bat, cmd, dart, delphi, dpr, dfm, pas, pascal, freepascal, lazarus, lpr, lfm, diff, patch, django, jinja, dockerfile, docker, dts, dust, dst, elixir, elm, erlang, erl, fsharp, fs, fix, f90, fortran, f95, gcode, gams, gms, gauss, gss, go, gherkin, golang, golo, gololang, gradle, groovy, htm, xml, html, xhtml, rss, atom, xsl, plist, http, https, haml, handlebars, hbs, html.hbs, html.handlebars, haskell, hs, haxe, hx, ini, inform7, i7, irpf90, json, js, java, jsp, javascript, jsx, lasso, less, lassoscript, ls, lisp, livecodeserver, livescript, ls, lua, makefile, mk, mak, markdown, md, mkdown, mkd, mathematica, mma, matlab, maxima, mel, mercury, mizar, mojolicious, monkey, nsis, nginx, nginxconf, nimrod, nim, nix, ocaml, ml, objectivec, mm, objc, obj-c, glsl, openscad, scad, ruleslanguage, oxygene, pf, pf.conf, php, php3, php4, php5, php6, parser3, perl, pl, powershell, ps, processing, prolog, protobuf, puppet, pp, python, py, gyp, profile, k, kdb, qml, r, rib, rsl, graph, instances, ruby, rb, gemspec, podspec, thor, irb, rust, rs, scss, sql, p21, step, stp, scala, scheme, scilab, sci, smali, smalltalk, st, stan, stylus, styl, swift, tcl, tk, tex, thrift, tp, twig, craftcms, typescript, ts, vbnet, vb, vbscript, vbs, vhdl, vala, verilog, v, vim, x86asm, xl, tao, xpath, xq, zephir, zep, cc, com, conf, txt, cxx, def, f, for, g, h, hh, idc, jav, list, log, lst, m, mar, pl, sdml, text, test, tst, fasta, fas, r, jsonld, aln, all, dist, ali, jvxl, csproj, rout, ado, gd, gb, hapflk, primer, als, agp, mws, geocat, gp, tr, alf, zmx, mainparams, nmt, oligos, norm, insightmaker, biom, bethedgingmodel, string, traj, flml, mpt, fai, exmkli, fam, xprs, ga, blast, deepaxax, hdr, cml, trc, bpmn, tre, dia, reg, p, mae, defaults, div, dcse, evt, infile, tem, cff, cfg, nbp, rev, sync, cvs, vhdr, run, append, clustalw, sum, evec, experiment, nex, shared, net, nwk, jdx, exi2mk, edited, meg, len, met, mep, groups, kinf, non, ctr, xmpmeta, mshp, mo, sla, ctd, rdf, morphoj, ctl, ctm, m3d, cti, extrnlf, ipf, app, strat, vin, names, jrp, counts, apf, popstar, pxd, twb, feb, exlirl, mss, msq, extrnli, predict, txt~, call, lfmm, msf, nlogo, atf, vout, src, plain, tf, train, adult, vpc, pper, tuftrs, me, tnt, mc, mb, dep, setup, annot, mt, mw, mp, ms, m~, example, history, shark, ids, synctex, nexus, chip, sps, spt, agent, tabular, spj, conttable, tab, eap3, csl, chile_xerocomoids, hoc, rdfs, afa, bayescan, env, parameter, vpj, fq, head, pqi, lab, fa, catalog, mesh, lay, snp, maf, data, f90_original, csh, tuftib, sparql, ss, nosex, q, gff3, sd, dx, taxonomy, nontuftrs, genomes, rd, sge, ttl, fis, faa, gtf, vti, unique_haplotypes, vtl, fpkm, gen, yaml, gtr, hin, gtx, vtx, nerwick, sif, ginml, r2, supbask, rwl, trprobs, tps, suplts, sorted, noq, mcmc, config, classified, l, ipm, el, mdh, bvals, mdm, dcrcdr3, rdmpd, exlilf, trd, osim, meta, reftableheader, bngl, prototxt, mdp, pareto, gff, matk, out, rex, bmg, vcf, qc, exmatk, smi, phb, calib, blg, dsc, asv, nts, mmp, asc, bayes, asd, freq, pfam, std, macos, mdist, pqr, filter, att, edgelist, bedgraph, wld, mperm, kin, mdown, rooted, mlab, pgn, mzxml, misa, trees-d-place, fdb, 1d, array, isd, genotype, jet, script, fmw, top, sdm, fml, gpx, phytab, cdxml, afasta, exits2, exits1, qti, rm5, pdt, pds, gto, ogm, qual, xml~, ncl, csvy, frt, rst, rdump, ascc, 11, 10, ka, sto, tree, mcif, bed, dtd, trex, phyml, str, gbs, qpj, meme, prg, pkint, sam, prm, fastq, prn, prj, phy, prt, spinstell, stru, prs, sas, fastg, sat, lim, inv, arff, mix, fsata, fsta, phrynos_mptp, tfam, vna, xbif, bst, suppyrrs, pyr, altman, stats, fcl, kb, tpl, cki, praat, spept, gts, exmklf, mcr, mrb, nls, mfa, sage, xdsl, cdt, jags, bgz, pao, bvecs, paup, menu, clustal, dict, moses, xmp, yml, do, dl, off, template, prmtop, xfasta, sst, spped, trees, thm, tbl, rawtable, new, report, ssd, geo, ds, ssc, tikz, bas, jape, exi1rl, summary, vmrk, cf, logistic, x, xmap, nexml, ars, lir, seq, msat, ko, gbl, mlmtdna_pbt, newick, suppyrfrb, outgroup_gblock, result, nuc, spp_test_structure, nrt, lur, mus, jtv, tcr, sites, mtx, deeplts, mzdata, props, readme, irc, xvg, rmd, xslt, snps, fchk, jl, hd_matrix, bibs, outtree, rttm, hits, cor, fit, mor, tmax, blastp, blastn, missingclades, cod, fna, uni, rnp, ptraj, con, aa, exi1i2, genetrees, por, pos, pop, header, pom, vtp, church, cp, tax, pck, dis, oln, frq, pi, pro, pm, rproj, qsf, ych, mcd, hmp, digi_structure, hmm, geste, wfn, exlfrl, gnu, align, batch, xgmml, rbcl, sln, hdb, tds, ly, phylip, tdt, tped, exi2li, qiimeotutable, ris, vn, vot, vu, in, id, par, pau, generic, exi2lf, gbk, s2s, parts, qmat, filtered, paj, pal, bib, its2, phe, its1, sys, user, bayenv, arp, dat, estimation, dadi, d1s, sdx, analysis, epf, model, wig, resx, gdv, taxa, drw, gdf, exi1lf, nam, mdcrd, gml, taxo, ele, source, hap, allele, elp, gmt, rnk, bim, embl, psl, psc, psf, mot, summ, mol, namd, bip, treeout, intel, sizes, qua, manifest, consensus, t, rmsfit, gjf, alignments, reduced, pyx, r~, gtl, sequences, rec, pdbqt, supaxax, fld, est, aml, ref, pep, fods, rdmped, jsl, pzfx, masked, ped, ict, cgi, blastoutput, plt, pls, vaxml, properties, dcp, ve, obo, bgd, map, sphybrid, rpres, obs, gsheet, owl, fplot, mbi, ace, soi, ahk, mgm, bound, xyd, url, genepop, loc, m4, ptp, rplot, xpd, hed, xpx, fasn, xpr, exi1mk, xpw, ode, function, dnd, pipeline, xyzi, deepbask, trnli, sdd, sdf, gmx, delta, sdl, nanorc, pwm, bug, info, trnlf, input, penat, birdcoi_ii, gro, mtl, lvm, brd, trim, c3xml, int, cbk, trig, unsafe, msp, graphml, msl, trix, file, ntree, ind, pir, exi2rl, inc, igv, igs, cdq, exrbcl, nb, nal, ijm, nx, grd, u, grm, nw, node, stat, v3s, outgroup, models, mol2, exmkrl, xtekct, sqn, matrix, fsa, mase, nxs, cpg, cps, pet, fst, dot, kgg, time, n3, sbml, adaf, supplementaryfiles
graphsvg glyphgephi,gexf
fitssvg glyphzoom, pagination, histogramfits
dicomsvg glyphzoom, pagination, histogramdicom, dcm

Examples (widget)

To get widget examples and check how they adapt with different width and height, please use the same article id as the ones in the links above under: https://widgets.figshare.com/examples/index.html?widget=wellcome&options=eyJ3aWR0aCI6IiIsImhlaWdodCI6NDUwLCJicmVha1BvaW50Ijo1N TAsInNob3dTdGF0cyI6dHJ1ZSwiYXJ0aWNsZUlkIjoxMTQ4OTYwfQ==

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