archextractor 0.1.1

A module for extracting archive files, which wraps the patoolib library, can recursively process nested compressed package files.

ArchExtractor

A module for extracting archive files, which wraps the patoolib library, can recursively process nested compressed package files.

Installation

• On Ubuntu

# Install the necessary decompression backend
>>> sudo apt-get install unzip unrar p7zip-full

# Install using pip
>>> python3 -m pip install archextractor

# or uv
>>> uv add archextractor

• On MacOS

# Install the necessary decompression backend
>>> brew install 7zip rar

# Install using pip
>>> python3 -m pip install archextractor

# or uv
>>> uv add archextractor

Usage

from archextractor import ArchExtractor

# Initialize the ArchExtractor class, set the source and destination paths
extractor = ArchExtractor(
    src="/data/archive.tar",  # The source path of the archive file (only file path, not directory path)
    dst="/data/unpacked",  # The destination path of the extracted files (only directory path, not file path)
)

# Extract all the archive files in the source path, including the nested archive files
extractor.extractall(
    verbosity=-1,  # See patoolib.extract_archive for more details
    cleanup=True,  # The source archive file will be deleted after extraction
)