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is-tar

Check if a Buffer/Uint8Array is a TAR file

v1.0.0, 24 Aug 2014MIT-Types: NoneCompression and archives
$ npm install is-tar

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
330k
+30% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
0
Direct, from package.json
Last release
12 years ago
v1.0.0
GitHub stars
13
0 forks
Open issues / PRs
0 / 0
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
0

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
0200k400k600kSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 495k (10 Mar 2026)Low 167.1k (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

330,033 downloads last week, 1,648,786 in the last month. The 12-month change of +30% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Releases, last 12 months
03 in total
Latest version
1.0.0, 24 Aug 201412 years ago
First published
22 Apr 2014
Last push to GitHub
17 Oct 20173,264 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
0
Open pull requests
0
Commits, last 52 weeks
0
Dependents on npm
7

Major versions

  1. v1 first release 1.0.0, 24 Aug 2014
  2. v0 first release 0.1.0, 22 Apr 2014

Recent releases

VersionPublished
1.0.024 Aug 2014
0.1.127 Apr 2014
0.1.022 Apr 2014
Module format
-Not determined from package.json
TypeScript types
None
Node.js engine range
>=0.10.0
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
-
Dependencies (0)
None
npm install is-tar
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/is-tar@1.0.0/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/is-tar@1.0.0/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/is-tar@1.0.0
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.