Module zip

Read and write ZIP archives.

• Crate ::zip.
• docs.rs
• crates.io
• GitHub

zip provides support for reading and writing ZIP archives, including compressed entries using DEFLATE and other algorithms. Useful for bundling files, creating backups, or working with formats that are ZIP-based (like EPUB, DOCX, JAR).

The main types are ZipArchive for reading existing archives and ZipWriter for creating new ones. Use ZipArchive::new to open a ZIP file for reading.

Examples

Read files from a ZIP archive:

use std::fs::File;
use std::io::Read;
use zip::ZipArchive;

let file = File::open("archive.zip").unwrap();
let mut archive = ZipArchive::new(file).unwrap();

for i in 0..archive.len() {
    let mut file = archive.by_index(i).unwrap();
    println!("File: {}", file.name());

    let mut contents = String::new();
    file.read_to_string(&mut contents).unwrap();
}

Create a new ZIP archive:

use std::fs::File;
use std::io::Write;
use zip::write::SimpleFileOptions;
use zip::ZipWriter;

let file = File::create("output.zip").unwrap();
let mut zip = ZipWriter::new(file);

let options = SimpleFileOptions::default()
    .compression_method(zip::CompressionMethod::Deflated);

zip.start_file("hello.txt", options).unwrap();
zip.write_all(b"Hello, World!").unwrap();

zip.finish().unwrap();