Sep 4, 2013 · Updated Sep 13, 2026

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# Introducing Zip & Tar archive creation with new Robot

![Tim Koschützki](/assets/images/teammates/avatar-tim-kos-1.jpg)

**Tim Koschützki**

Co-founder · Berlin, Germany · Show bio

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Today, we are very happy to announce yet another addition to our Robot family: the [/file/compress](/docs/robots/file-compress.md) Robot!

This little dude can generate zip and tar archives for you. How about that!

So far, all our Robots have processed files one by one. For example, the [/file/compress](/docs/robots/file-compress.md) Robot would normally have created one zip file for each image or video that is passed to it. But today, we are also releasing "Step bundling".

If you pass `"bundle_steps": true` in your `use` parameter, the [/file/compress](/docs/robots/file-compress.md) Robot will create a single archive file containing all the result files from all the Steps you pass to it. For example, this Template bundles all uploaded files into one ZIP archive:

```json
{
  "steps": {
    "archive": {
      "robot": "/file/compress",
      "use": {
        "steps": [":original"],
        "bundle_steps": true
      },
      "format": "zip",
      "result": true
    }
  }
}

```

To include processed results, add the names of your encoding or resizing Steps to the `steps` array.

To learn more about this and check out some demos, please have a look at the [documentation](/docs/robots/file-compress.md) for our [/file/compress](/docs/robots/file-compress.md) Robot.

As you can imagine, the "Step bundling" functionality makes a whole new family of Robots possible! For example, a Robot that generates one sprite out of several images, a Robot that merges several videos together to generate pre-rolls/post-rolls, or one to generate playlists. The sky is the limit. Well actually... let's just try to go beyond that as well! 😄

Please let us know what you think!

[#file-compress-robot](/blog/tags/file-compress-robot.md)[#file-compressing-service](/blog/tags/file-compressing-service.md)

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