Last updated: November 29, 2024

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# Introducing Zip & Tar archive creation with new Robot

![Tim Koschützki](/assets/images/teammates/avatar-tim-kos-1.jpg?dpl=dpl_6nhQNS5wkVkPZWuKMzXcWrAHNJL5)

**Tim Koschützki**

Co-founder · Berlin, Germany · Show bio

[](https://x.com/tim%5Fkos)[](https://github.com/tim-kos)

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:

```javascript
"use": {
  steps: [":original", "encode2", "resizing3"],
  bundle_steps: true
}

```

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 Robotspossible! For example, a Robot that generates one sprite out of several images, aRobot 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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