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express-zip

stream multiple files to the browser as a single zip, in pure node.

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express-zip

express-zip allows you to do res.zip(files) in express, without creating any intermediary files on disk, and in 100% pure node. build status

var app = require('express')();
var zip = require('express-zip');

app.get('/', function(req, res) {
  res.zip([
    { path: '/path/to/file1.name', name: '/path/in/zip/file1.name' }
    { path: '/path/to/file2.name', name: 'file2.name' }
  ]);
});

app.listen(3000);

Installation

$ npm install express-zip

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/**
 * Respond with a ZIP attachment containting `files`, with an optional
 * "save as" `filename` (default is attachment.zip), and then call `cb`
 * when finished.
 *
 * @param {Array} files { name: <name>, path: <path> }
 * @param {String|Function} filename that will be shown in "save as" dialog
 * @param {Function} cb(err, bytesZipped) optional
 */
res.zip = function(files, filename, cb) {

Credits

Borrows heavily from nulltask's express-csv, uses ctalkington's zip-stream for the actual zipping.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Craig McDonald (thrackle) <oss@thrackle.com>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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Package last updated on 22 Dec 2019

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