node-7z-archive

ESM front-end to 7-Zip, featuring alternative full 7z CLI tool, binaries for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, seamlessly create 7zip SFX self extracting archives targeting different platforms.

Usage

This library use Promises, it's API is consistent with standard use:

import { fullArchive } from 'node-7z-archive';

fullArchive('myArchive.7z', 'destination', { p: 'myPassword' } /* 7z options/switches */)
// Equivalent to `on('data', function (files) { // ... });`
.progress(function (files) {
  console.log('Some files are extracted: %s', files);
})

// When all is done
.then(function () {
  console.log('Extracting done!');
})

// On error
.catch(function (err) {
  console.error(err);
});

How to create Sfx - Self Extracting Archives.

Executables will be built using 7-zip version 19.00 on Windows OS for Windows targets. Linux and Apple macOS will use 7-zip version 17.02 for all targets.

import { createSfxWindows, createSfxLinux, createSfxMac } from 'node-7z-archive';

• createSfxWindows(name, files, destination, options, type);

• createSfxLinux(name, files, destination, options);

• createSfxMac(name, files, destination, options);

Each will in turn call: createSfx(name, files, destination, options, type, platform, extension) as:

• name Application name.

• files Files to add.

• destination Application root for the SfxPackages directory, will default to package root.

  • All Sfx package archives are stored in the created SfxPackages directory.
  • The destination directory must already exists.

• options For installer config file and 7-zip switch options.

  • {
  • title: - Window title message, Default "name installation package created on Current running platform OS"
  • beginPrompt: - Begin Prompt message, Default "Do you want to install name?""
  • installPath: - "path_to_extract", Sets the extraction path. The extraction folder will not be deleted after the extraction.
  • progress: - Value can be "yes" or "no". Default value is "yes".
  • runProgram: - Command for executing. Default value is "setup.exe".
  • Substring % % T will be replaced with path to temporary folder,
  • where files were extracted
  • directory: - Directory prefix for RunProgram. Default value is .\
  • executeFile: Name of file for executing
  • executeParameters: Parameters for ExecuteFile
  • }

• type Application type gui or console. Default gui. Only console possible on Linux and Mac OS.
• platform What platform application targeting? Either win32, darwin, or linux.
• extension Binary extension name.

Installation

This package will download the 7zip binaries at install time. Host system does not need to have 7zip installed or in PATH.

The binaries will be downloaded from:

On Linux - compiled and available at releases previously https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip.

On Windows - https://www.7-zip.org/download.html.

On Mac OSX - compiled and available at releases previously https://rudix.org/.

npm install --save node-7z-archive

CLI

For using full 7zip from command line without installation package.

npm install -g node-7z-archive

Will have createArchive, deleteArchive, extractArchive, fullArchive, listArchive, renameArchive, testArchive, updateArchive, createSfx available globally. To always see available commands, and binary location type:

7zip

Outputs:

Full 7zip Console Commands.

 ESM front-end to 7-Zip, featuring alternative full 7z CLI tools, binaries for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, seamlessly create 7zip SFX self extracting archives targeting different platforms.

 **Commands**

 Adds files to archive.
 Usage: `createArchive` archivePath files ...options

 Deletes files from archive.
 Usage: `deleteArchive` archivePath files ...options

 Extracts files from an archive to the current directory or to the output directory.
 Usage: `extractArchive` archivePath destination ...options

 Extracts files from an archive with their full paths in the current directory, or in an output directory
 Usage: `fullArchive` archivePath destination ...options

 Extracts only the selected files from an archive to the current directory, or in an output directory
 Usage: `onlyArchive` archivePath destination files ...options'

 Lists contents of archive.
 Usage: `listArchive` archivePath ...options

 Renames files in archive.
 Usage: `renameArchive` archivePath file pairs ...options

 Tests archive files.
 Usage: `testArchive` archivePath ...options

 Update older files in the archive and add files that are not already in the archive.
 Usage: `updateArchive` archivePath files ...options

 Create an Sfx - self extracting installation package for targeted platform.
 Usage: `createSfx` platform packageName files --dir [save/to] --gui | --console ...options

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 The `7z` and `7za` binary on your system is located in directory: ...\...\node-7z-archive\binaries\...

This package is a rewrite of node-7z-forall. The original author has removed the version it was a fork of node-7z. The methods are still backwards compatible with previous naming of add, delete, extract, extractFull, list, rename, test, update.

API

See the 7-Zip documentation Or 7 Zip Command Line Examples for the full list of usages and options (switches).

The type of the list of files can be either String or Array.

import SevenZip from 'node-7z-archive';

const { SevenZip } = require('node-7z-archive');

By method name: import { createArchive, deleteArchive, extractArchive, fullArchive, listArchive, renameArchive, testArchive, updateArchive } from 'node-7z-archive';

Options: 7-Zip Switches, use without initial '-'.

  -- : Stop switches and @listfile parsing
  -ai[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard} : Include archives
  -ax[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard} : eXclude archives
  -ao{a|s|t|u} : set Overwrite mode
  -an : disable archive_name field
  -bb[0-3] : set output log level
  -bd : disable progress indicator
  -bs{o|e|p}{0|1|2} : set output stream for output/error/progress line
  -bt : show execution time statistics
  -i[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard} : Include filenames
  -m{Parameters} : set compression Method
    -mmt[N] : set number of CPU threads
    -mx[N] : set compression level: -mx1 (fastest) ... -mx9 (ultra)
  -o{Directory} : set Output directory
  -p{Password} : set Password
  -r[-|0] : Recurse subdirectories
  -sa{a|e|s} : set Archive name mode
  -scc{UTF-8|WIN|DOS} : set charset for console input/output
  -scs{UTF-8|UTF-16LE|UTF-16BE|WIN|DOS|{id}} : set charset for list files
  -scrc[CRC32|CRC64|SHA1|SHA256|*] : set hash function for x, e, h commands
  -sdel : delete files after compression
  -seml[.] : send archive by email
  -sfx[{name}] : Create SFX archive
  -si[{name}] : read data from stdin
  -slp : set Large Pages mode
  -slt : show technical information for l (List) command
  -snh : store hard links as links
  -snl : store symbolic links as links
  -sni : store NT security information
  -sns[-] : store NTFS alternate streams
  -so : write data to stdout
  -spd : disable wildcard matching for file names
  -spe : eliminate duplication of root folder for extract command
  -spf : use fully qualified file paths
  -ssc[-] : set sensitive case mode
  -sse : stop archive creating, if it can't open some input file
  -ssw : compress shared files
  -stl : set archive timestamp from the most recently modified file
  -stm{HexMask} : set CPU thread affinity mask (hexadecimal number)
  -stx{Type} : exclude archive type
  -t{Type} : Set type of archive
  -u[-][p#][q#][r#][x#][y#][z#][!newArchiveName] : Update options
  -v{Size}[b|k|m|g] : Create volumes
  -w[{path}] : assign Work directory. Empty path means a temporary directory
  -x[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard} : eXclude filenames
  -y : assume Yes on all queries

createArchive(filepath, files, options)

Arguments

• filepath Path to the archive you want to create.
• files The file list to add.
• options An object of options (7-Zip switches).

Progress

• files A array of all the added files. The / character is used as a path separator on every platform.

Error

• err An Error object.

deleteArchive(filepath, files, options)

Arguments

• filepath Path to the archive you want to delete files from.
• files The file list to delete.
• options An object of options (7-Zip switches).

Error

• err An Error object.

extractArchive(filepath, dest, options)

Arguments

• filepath The path to the archive you want to extract.
• dest Where to extract the archive.
• options An object of options.

Progress

• files A array of all the extracted files AND directories. The / character is used as a path separator on every platform.

Error

• err An Error object.

fullArchive(filepath, dest, options)

Arguments

• filepath The path to the archive you want to extract.
• dest Where to extract with full paths, the archive (creates folders for you).
• options An object of options.

Progress

• files A array of all the extracted files AND directories. The / character is used as a path separator on every platform.

Error

• err An Error object.

listArchive(filepath, options)

Arguments

• filepath The path to the archive you want to analyze, list contents of archive.
• options An object of options.

Progress

• files A array of objects of all the extracted files AND directories. The / character is used as a path separator on every platform. Object's properties are: date, attr, size and name.

Then - Resolved

• spec An object of tech spec about the archive. Properties are: path, type, method, physicalSize and headersSize (Some of them may be missing with non-7z archives).

Error

• err An Error object.

onlyArchive(filepath, dest, files, options)

Arguments

• filepath The path to the archive you want to extract selected files from.
• dest Where to extract with full paths, the archive (creates folders for you).
• files What files to extract, will overwrite if file exits.
• options An object of options.

Progress

• files A array of all the extracted files AND directories. The / character is used as a path separator on every platform.

Error

• err An Error object.

renameArchive(filepath, files, options)

Arguments

• filepath The path to the archive that has the file to rename.
• files The file list in pairs to rename in archive.
• options An object of options.

Progress

• files A array of files renamed.

Error

• err An Error object.

testArchive(filepath, options)

Arguments

• filepath The path to the archive you want to analyze, test integrity of archive.
• options An object of options.

Progress

• files A array of all the tested files. The / character is used as a path separator on every platform.

Error

• err An Error object.

updateArchive(filepath, files, options)

Arguments

• filepath Path to the archive you want to update.
• files The file list to update.
• options An object of options (7-Zip switches).

Progress

• files A array of all the updated files. The / character is used as a path separator on every platform.

Error

• err An Error object.

Advanced usage

Compression method

With the 7z binary compression is made like that:

# adds *.exe and *.dll files to solid archive archive.7z using LZMA method
# with 2 MB dictionary and BCJ filter.
7z a archive.7z *.exe -m0=BCJ -m1=LZMA:d=21

With node-7z-archive you can translate it like that:

import { createArchive } from 'node-7z-archive';

createArchive('archive.7z', '*.exe', {
  m0: '=BCJ',
  m1: '=LZMA:d=21'
})
.then(function () {
  // Do stuff...
});

createArchive, deleteArchive and updateArchive multiple files

When adding, deleting or updating archives you can pass either a string or an array as second parameter (the files parameter).

import { deleteArchive } from 'node-7z-archive';

deleteArchive('bigArchive.7z', [ 'file1', 'file2' ])
.then(function () {
  // Do stuff...
});

Wildcards

You can extract with wildcards to specify one or more file extensions. To do this add a wildcards attribute to the options object. The wildcard attribute takes an Array as value. In this array each item is a wildcard.

import { fullArchive } from 'node-7z-archive';

fullArchive('archive.zip', 'destination/', {
  wildcards: [ '*.txt', '*.md' ], // extract all text and Markdown files
  r: true // in each subfolder too
})
.progress(function (files) {
  // Do stuff with files...
})
.then(function () {
  // Do stuff...
});

Note that the r (for recursive) attribute is passed in this example.

Raw inputs

Sometimes you just want to use the lib as the original command line. For instance you want to apply to switches with different values (e.g.: -i!*.jpg -i!*.png to target only two types of extensions).

In such cases the default behavior of the options argument is not enough. You can use the custom raw key in your options object and pass it an Array of values.

import { listArchive } from 'node-7z-archive';

listArchive('archive.zip', {
  raw: [ '-i!*.jpg', '-i!*.png' ], // only images
})
.progress(function (files) {
  // Do stuff with files...
})
.then(function () {
  // Do stuff...
});