SharpCompress is a compression library for NET 4.8/NET Standard 2.0/NET Standard 2.1/NET 5.0/NET 6.0/NET 7.0/NET 8.0/NET 9.0/NET 10.0 that can unrar, decompress 7zip, decompress xz, zip/unzip, tar/untar lzip/unlzip, bzip2/unbzip2 and gzip/ungzip with forward-only reading and file random access APIs. Write support for zip/tar/bzip2/gzip/7zip is implemented.
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Install
dotnet add package SharpCompress
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All-time downloads
397.5M
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Popularity
Top 10% on NuGet
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Maintenance
0.70
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Releases per year
7.2
112 versions over its life
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Observations in this range began OCT 5, 2026. The chart appears after 7 observations; 2 so far. Collecting history.