rarfile 4.5

RAR archive reader for Python

This is Python module for RAR archive reading. The interface follows the style of zipfile. Licensed under ISC license.

Features:

• Supports both RAR3 and RAR5 format archives.

• Supports multi volume archives.

• Supports Unicode filenames.

• Supports password-protected archives.

• Supports archive and file comments.

• Archive parsing and non-compressed files are handled in pure Python code.

• Compressed files are extracted by executing external tool: unrar (preferred), unar, 7zip or bsdtar.

• Works with Python 3.6+.

Backends:

Backend	Status	Notes
unrar	Supported	Recommended: full format support. Non-free software, but free to use.
unar	Supported	Not usable on Windows: last build is from 2013 (v1.8.1) that does support output to stdout. Does not support RAR2 locked files. Does not support RAR5 Blake2 hash checking.
7zip	Supported	Requires 7zip-rar package on Debian/Ubuntu.
p7zip	Supported	Unmaintained? Requires p7zip-rar package on Debian/Ubuntu.
bsdtar	Supported	Not recommended: limited RAR format support. Does not support multi-volume archives. Does not support solid archives. Does not support password-protected archives. Does not support RARVM-based compression filters.
unrar-free	Supported	Supports output to stdout (v0.2.0). Based on libarchive so similar format support as bsdtar but supports multi-volume (v0.3.0).

Links:

• Documentation

• Downloads

• Git repo