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tar-stream

npm · v3.2.2 · MIT

tar-stream is a streaming tar parser and generator and nothing else. It operates purely using streams which means you can easily extract/parse tarballs without ever hitting the file system.

Not filed under any category yet: no assignment reached confidence 0.5.

Install

npm install tar-stream

Adoption

Downloads (30 days)
407.8M
Observeddownloads / 30 days
Popularity
Top 10% on npm
Derived98th percentile within npm
Dependents
1.3K
Observedpackages that depend on it
Maintenance
0.83
DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year
5.3
68 versions over its life

Growth by period

Derived by Crest of Tech from two observations of npm’s own figure, a period apart. Nothing is stored or estimated: without an observation near the period’s start, the period is still collecting.

7 days
Collectinghistory
Collecting
30 days
+1.8% · 30d
Derived+7.3M downloads / 30 days, SEP 24 → OCT 24
90 days
+16.4% · 90d
Derived+57.4M downloads / 30 days, JUL 26 → OCT 24
1 year
+136.8% · 1y
Derived+235.6M downloads / 30 days, NOV 3 → OCT 24

Adoption historydownloads / 30 days · 13 observations

SEP 24, 2026: 400,430,526 downloads / 30 daysSEP 25, 2026: 401,376,902 downloads / 30 daysSEP 26, 2026: 393,035,107 downloads / 30 daysSEP 27, 2026: 387,113,824 downloads / 30 daysSEP 28, 2026: 401,117,600 downloads / 30 daysSEP 29, 2026: 415,837,645 downloads / 30 daysSEP 30, 2026: 421,532,739 downloads / 30 daysOCT 1, 2026: 425,349,636 downloads / 30 daysOCT 2, 2026: 425,138,471 downloads / 30 daysOCT 3, 2026: 435,261,830 downloads / 30 daysOCT 4, 2026: 428,423,657 downloads / 30 daysOCT 5, 2026: 428,423,657 downloads / 30 daysOCT 24, 2026: 407,752,368 downloads / 30 days
Table of observations (13)
Daydownloads / 30 daysDependents
OCT 24, 2026407,752,3681,254
OCT 5, 2026428,423,657Not observed
OCT 4, 2026428,423,657Not observed
OCT 3, 2026435,261,830Not observed
OCT 2, 2026425,138,471Not observed
OCT 1, 2026425,349,636Not observed
SEP 30, 2026421,532,739Not observed
SEP 29, 2026415,837,645Not observed
SEP 28, 2026401,117,600Not observed
SEP 27, 2026387,113,824Not observed
SEP 26, 2026393,035,107Not observed
SEP 25, 2026401,376,902Not observed
SEP 24, 2026400,430,526Not observed

Facts from the registry

Latest version
v3.2.2
68 versions
First published
DEC 20, 2013
Last release
OCT 2, 2026
22d ago
Licence
MIT
Links
npm page
Homepage · github.com

Repository

Not in the Crest catalog

mafintosh/tar-stream

The catalog tracks GitHub repositories with more than 500 stars; this one has no Crest page, so its figures are not shown here.

Dependencies latest version · v3.2.2

Runtime 4

  • b4a^1.9.0
  • bare-fs^4.8.2
  • fast-fifo^1.3.2
  • streamx^2.28.1

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