Open Source Go Library for Working with Archives
Creating, Managing & Extracting Archives with ease using cross-platform, high-level Go API.
archiver is an open source Go library that provides functionality for creating, managing & extracting archives with ease using Go commands. The library is very stable, cross-platform, high-level archival and compression operations for a variety of formats. Some of the most common functions such as Archive, Unarchive, Extract, CompressFile, and DecompressFile are implemented at the package level for the user’s convenience.
The library enables software developers to compress & decompress files of various compression file formats such as Brotli (br), Bzip2 (bz2), Flate (ZIP), Gzip (GZ), lz4, snappy (SZ), xz, and Zstandard (ZSTD). It also provides support for archiving formats like ZIP, TAR, and RAR.
The API is well documented and very easy to use. It provides complete support for several important features related to compression and decompression such as creating archives, Extracts folders from archives, compressing files, decompressing files, extracting specific files, Stream files, Traverse archive contents, creating and Open password-protected RAR archives, streaming compression as well as decompression, and much more.
Getting Started with archiver
The recommended way to install archiver is from GitHub, please use the following command for smooth installation.
Install archiver via GitHub
go get github.com/mholt/archiver/cmd/arc"Create an Archive File via Go
The archiver library enables software developers to create an archive file of the source files to a new file at the destination using a couple of lines of Go code. You can also easily add a file or folder to the archive with ease. The file will be added to the top level of the archive and the directories are recursively added. When creating archives or compressing files using a specific instance of the format's type, the name of the output file MUST match that of the format, to prevent confusion later on.
Compress and Decompress Files
The open source archiver library enables software developers to compress and decompress files inside their own applications. There are several important functions and methods included for compressing and decompressing files. You can use easily compress a file or directory, decompress a file or directory, extract a specific file, folder extraction, and many more.
Extract a Specific File or Folder from Archives
The open source archiver library enables software developers to read & extract a specific file using Go API. The library supports extracting files and folders into a place of your choice with just a couple of lines of code. You can easily select a particular file from a provided archive and can extract it to a place of your choice. Same as the file you can also extract an entire folder to the destination of your choice.
