archive-manager

Node-Archive-Manager

A Node.js plugin to manipulate archive files using C++ and libarchive

Installation

This requires node-gyp to compile, you can get it here. There are some quirks to installing node-gyp for windows, please follow the instructions in the link carefully

As per usual, use your node package manager of choice to install this in your project:

yarn install archive-manager

Usage

Here is a basic use case:

const ArchiveManager = require('archive-manager');

ArchiveManager.Content('path/to/archive', function(error, files){
    if(error){
        console.error(error);
        return;
    }
    files.forEach(function(file){
        console.log(file.name);
    });
});

API

There are six functions in this module:

Content()
Create()
Append()
Extract()
Read()
Remove()

For more detail view the wiki

Building From Source

For Windows

The libarchive package and its dependencies are provied for both 64 and 32 bit windows, but you may need to grab some extra things for node-gyp (see above):

yarn install
node-gyp rebuild

For Linux

For linux distributions, install the libarchive development package using your chosen packge manager, eg:

sudo apt-get install libarchive-dev

Then

yarn install
node-gyp rebuild