Package
is-tar
Check if a Buffer/Uint8Array is a TAR file
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
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
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 24 Aug 2014
- v0 first release 0.1.0, 22 Apr 2014
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | 24 Aug 2014 |
| 0.1.1 | 27 Apr 2014 |
| 0.1.0 | 22 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- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/is-tar@1.0.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/is-tar@1.0.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/is-tar@1.0.0
Indexability: Indexed.