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Decompress archives

🤖/file/decompress extracts entire archives of files to be consumed by other Robots or exported as individual files.

This Robot supports the following archive formats:

  • ZIP archives (with uncompressed or "deflate"-compressed entries)
  • 7-Zip archives
  • RAR archives
  • GNU tar format (including GNU long filenames, long link names, and sparse files)
  • Solaris 9 extended tar format (including ACLs)
  • Old V7 tar archives
  • POSIX ustar
  • POSIX pax interchange format
  • POSIX octet-oriented cpio
  • SVR4 ASCII cpio
  • POSIX octet-oriented cpio
  • Binary cpio (big-endian or little-endian)
  • ISO9660 CD-ROM images (with optional Rockridge or Joliet extensions)
  • GNU and BSD "ar" archives
  • "mtree" format
  • Microsoft CAB format
  • LHA and LZH archives
  • XAR archives

This Robot also detects and handles any of the following before evaluating the archive file:

  • uuencoded files
  • Files with RPM wrapper
  • gzip compression
  • bzip2 compression
  • compress/LZW compression
  • lzma, lzip, and xz compression

For security reasons, archives that contain symlinks to outside the archived dir, will error out the Assembly. Decompressing password-protected archives (encrypted archives) is currently not fully supported but will not cause an Assembly to fail.

Usage example

Decompress an uploaded archive:

{
  "steps": {
    "decompressed": {
      "robot": "/file/decompress",
      "use": ":original"
    }
  }
}

Parameters

  • output_meta

    Record<string, boolean> | boolean

    Allows you to specify a set of metadata that is more expensive on CPU power to calculate, and thus is disabled by default to keep your Assemblies processing fast.

    For images, you can add "has_transparency": true in this object to extract if the image contains transparent parts and "dominant_colors": true to extract an array of hexadecimal color codes from the image.

    For videos, you can add the "colorspace: true" parameter to extract the colorspace of the output video.

    For audio, you can add "mean_volume": true to get a single value representing the mean average volume of the audio file.

    You can also set this to false to skip metadata extraction and speed up transcoding.

  • result

    boolean (default: false)

    Whether the results of this Step should be present in the Assembly Status JSON

  • queue

    "batch"

    Setting the queue to 'batch', manually downgrades the priority of jobs for this step to avoid consuming Priority job slots for jobs that don't need zero queue waiting times

  • force_accept

    boolean (default: false)
      Force a Robot to accept a file type it would have ignored.

    By default Robots ignore files they are not familiar with. 🤖/video/encode, for example, will happily ignore input images.

    With the force_accept parameter set to true you can force Robots to accept all files thrown at them. This will typically lead to errors and should only be used for debugging or combatting edge cases.

  • use

    string | Array<string> | Array<object> | object

    Specifies which Step(s) to use as input.

    • You can pick any names for Steps except ":original" (reserved for user uploads handled by Transloadit)
    • You can provide several Steps as input with arrays: 
      {
  "use": [
    ":original",
    "encoded",
    "resized"
  ]
}

  • ignore_errors

    boolean | Array<"meta"> (default: [])

    A possible array member is only "meta".

    You might see an error when trying to extract metadata from the files inside your archive. This happens, for example, for files with a size of zero bytes. Setting this to true will cause the Robot to not stop the file decompression (and the entire Assembly) when that happens.

    To keep backwards compatibility, setting this parameter to true will set it to ["meta"] internally.

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