| # Archiver |
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| A streaming interface for archive generation |
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| Visit the [API documentation](https://www.archiverjs.com/) for a list of all methods available. |
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| ## Install |
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| ```bash |
| npm install archiver --save |
| ``` |
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| ## Quick Start |
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| ```js |
| // require modules |
| const fs = require('fs'); |
| const archiver = require('archiver'); |
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| // create a file to stream archive data to. |
| const output = fs.createWriteStream(__dirname + '/example.zip'); |
| const archive = archiver('zip', { |
| zlib: { level: 9 } // Sets the compression level. |
| }); |
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| // listen for all archive data to be written |
| // 'close' event is fired only when a file descriptor is involved |
| output.on('close', function() { |
| console.log(archive.pointer() + ' total bytes'); |
| console.log('archiver has been finalized and the output file descriptor has closed.'); |
| }); |
| |
| // This event is fired when the data source is drained no matter what was the data source. |
| // It is not part of this library but rather from the NodeJS Stream API. |
| // @see: https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_event_end |
| output.on('end', function() { |
| console.log('Data has been drained'); |
| }); |
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| // good practice to catch warnings (ie stat failures and other non-blocking errors) |
| archive.on('warning', function(err) { |
| if (err.code === 'ENOENT') { |
| // log warning |
| } else { |
| // throw error |
| throw err; |
| } |
| }); |
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| // good practice to catch this error explicitly |
| archive.on('error', function(err) { |
| throw err; |
| }); |
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| // pipe archive data to the file |
| archive.pipe(output); |
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| // append a file from stream |
| const file1 = __dirname + '/file1.txt'; |
| archive.append(fs.createReadStream(file1), { name: 'file1.txt' }); |
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| // append a file from string |
| archive.append('string cheese!', { name: 'file2.txt' }); |
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| // append a file from buffer |
| const buffer3 = Buffer.from('buff it!'); |
| archive.append(buffer3, { name: 'file3.txt' }); |
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| // append a file |
| archive.file('file1.txt', { name: 'file4.txt' }); |
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| // append files from a sub-directory and naming it `new-subdir` within the archive |
| archive.directory('subdir/', 'new-subdir'); |
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| // append files from a sub-directory, putting its contents at the root of archive |
| archive.directory('subdir/', false); |
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| // append files from a glob pattern |
| archive.glob('file*.txt', {cwd:__dirname}); |
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| // finalize the archive (ie we are done appending files but streams have to finish yet) |
| // 'close', 'end' or 'finish' may be fired right after calling this method so register to them beforehand |
| archive.finalize(); |
| ``` |
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| ## Formats |
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| Archiver ships with out of the box support for TAR and ZIP archives. |
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| You can register additional formats with `registerFormat`. |
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| You can check if format already exists before to register a new one with `isRegisteredFormat`. |
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