/// import AdmZip = require("adm-zip"); // reading archives var zip = new AdmZip("./my_file.zip"); var zipEntries: AdmZip.IZipEntry[] = zip.getEntries(); // an array of ZipEntry records zipEntries.forEach(function (zipEntry) { console.log(zipEntry.toString()); // outputs zip entries information if (zipEntry.entryName == "my_file.txt") { console.log(zipEntry.getData().toString('utf8')); } }); // outputs the content of some_folder/my_file.txt console.log(zip.readAsText("some_folder/my_file.txt")); // extracts the specified file to the specified location zip.extractEntryTo(/*entry name*/"some_folder/my_file.txt", /*target path*/"/home/me/tempfolder", /*overwrite*/true) // extracts everything zip.extractAllTo(/*target path*/"/home/me/zipcontent/", /*overwrite*/true); // creating archives var zip = new AdmZip(); // add file directly zip.addFile("test.txt", new Buffer("inner content of the file"), "entry comment goes here"); // add local file zip.addLocalFile("/home/me/some_picture.png"); // get everything as a buffer var willSendthis = zip.toBuffer(); // or write everything to disk zip.writeZip(/*target file name*/"/home/me/files.zip"); function processZipEntry(zipEntry: AdmZip.IZipEntry) { console.log('comment', zipEntry.comment); } //tests taken from examples at https://github.com/cthackers/adm-zip/wiki/ADM-ZIP import Zip = require("adm-zip"); // loads and parses existing zip file local_file.zip var zip = new Zip("local_file.zip"); // creates new in memory zip zip = new Zip(); // loads and parses existing zip file local_file.zip zip = new Zip("local_file.zip"); // get all entries and iterate them zip.getEntries().forEach((entry) => { var entryName = entry.entryName; var decompressedData = zip.readFile(entry); // decompressed buffer of the entry console.log(zip.readAsText(entry)); // outputs the decompressed content of the entry }); // will extract the file myfile.txt from the archive to /home/user/folder/subfolder/myfile.txt zip.extractEntryTo("folder/subfolder/myfile.txt", "/home/user/", true, true); // will extract the file myfile.txt from the archive to /home/user/myfile.txt zip.extractEntryTo("folder/subfolder/myfile.txt", "/home/user/", false, true); function isAdmZipEntry(obj: any): obj is AdmZip.IZipEntry { return obj !== null && typeof obj === "object" && typeof obj['entryName'] === 'string'; }