File Compressing
File compression allows users to combine large amounts of original input files to create a single, often smaller file. File compression is an important tool for keeping data usage under control. Supporting a wide variety of compression algorithms and formats, Transloadit is able to both archive and extract entire media libraries. Combine this with our encoding and exporting capabilities, and you get a very powerful file processing pipeline.
Robots
At Transloadit, we call our features Robots because you can link them together to create encoding pipelines unique to your use case.
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/file/compress
creates archives of files or file conversion results
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/file/decompress
extracts entire archives of files to be consumed by other Robots or exported as individual files
Live demos
See our features in action through live demos and code samples, right here on our website:
- Automatically extract all files from an archive
- Create a Zip file for each uploaded file
- Create a gzipped tar archive containing multiple result files
- Create a single Zip file containing all uploaded files
- Extract all images from an archive and resize them
Related blog posts
- Introducing new Robots & features for file handling March 30, 2012
- Introducing Zip & Tar archive creation with new Robot September 4, 2013
- 'zip': advanced compression techniques for developers September 12, 2024
- Speed up 'Tar' archiving with zstd and LZ4 compression November 1, 2024