extract-zip

Unzip written in pure JavaScript. Extracts a zip into a directory. Available as a library or a command line program.

Uses the yauzl ZIP parser.

Installation

Make sure you have Node 10 or greater installed.

Get the library:

npm install extract-zip --save

Install the command line program:

npm install extract-zip -g

JS API

const extract = require('extract-zip')

async function main () {
  try {
    await extract(source, { dir: target })
    console.log('Extraction complete')
  } catch (err) {
    // handle any errors
  }
}

Options

• dir (required) - the path to the directory where the extracted files are written
• encoding - string - encoding to be used for file names, defaults to utf-8
• defaultDirMode - integer - Directory Mode (permissions), defaults to 0o755
• defaultFileMode - integer - File Mode (permissions), defaults to 0o644
• onEntry - function - if present, will be called with (entry, zipfile), entry is every entry from the zip file forwarded from the entry event from yauzl. zipfile is the yauzl instance
• filter - function - if present, will be called with (entry, zipfile), entry is every entry from the zip file forwarded from the entry event from yauzl. zipfile is the yauzl instance. If the filter returns true for a given file it will be extracted, else it will be skipped. It is possible to change entry.fileName in the filter to change the location of output files.

Default modes are only used if no permissions are set in the zip file.

CLI Usage

extract-zip foo.zip <targetDirectory> [--encoding=<encoding>]

If not specified, targetDirectory will default to process.cwd().