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lz-string

LZ-based compression algorithm


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What is lz-string?

The lz-string npm package provides compression and decompression functionalities for strings. It is designed to be lightweight and fast, and it can compress data to a smaller size to save storage space or reduce the amount of data transmitted over the network.

What are lz-string's main functionalities?

Compression

This feature allows you to compress a string into a smaller one, which can be useful for saving space or reducing the size of data sent over the network.

const LZString = require('lz-string');
const compressed = LZString.compress('This is my string to compress.');

Decompression

This feature allows you to decompress a string that was previously compressed with lz-string, restoring it to its original form.

const LZString = require('lz-string');
const compressed = LZString.compress('This is my string to compress.');
const decompressed = LZString.decompress(compressed);

Compression to UTF-16

This feature compresses a string and encodes it in UTF-16 format, which can be useful for environments that do not support UTF-8.

const LZString = require('lz-string');
const compressed = LZString.compressToUTF16('This is my string to compress.');

Decompression from UTF-16

This feature decompresses a string that was compressed to UTF-16 format back to its original string.

const LZString = require('lz-string');
const compressed = LZString.compressToUTF16('This is my string to compress.');
const decompressed = LZString.decompressFromUTF16(compressed);

Compression to Base64

This feature compresses a string and encodes it in Base64, which is useful for safe transport over protocols that might not handle binary data well.

const LZString = require('lz-string');
const compressed = LZString.compressToBase64('This is my string to compress.');

Decompression from Base64

This feature decompresses a string that was compressed and encoded in Base64 back to its original string.

const LZString = require('lz-string');
const compressed = LZString.compressToBase64('This is my string to compress.');
const decompressed = LZString.decompressFromBase64(compressed);

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lz-string

LZ-based compression algorithm for JavaScript

Warning (migrating from version 1.3.4 - nov 2014)

Files have changed locations and name since a recent release. The new release file is in libs/lz-string.min.js (or in libs/lz-string.js if you don't care for the minified version)

Sorry about the mess in other repos. This will not happen again.

Note on server side

If you are using one of the ports of lz-string to decode on the server what was encoded in the browser, you might want to use version 1.3.7 as the version 1.3.8 introduced a slight change in the encoding. While the JS versions are completely cross-compatible, the PHP, Go, ... versions might not be as forgiving.

Install via npm

$ npm install -g lz-string
$ lz-string input.js > output.txt

Home page

Home page for this program with examples, documentation and a live demo: http://pieroxy.net/blog/pages/lz-string/index.html

Other languages

This lib has numerous ports to other languages, for server side processing, mostly. Here they are:

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Last updated on 04 Mar 2023

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