Package
it-tar
it-tar is a streaming tar parser (and maybe a generator in the future) and nothing else. It operates purely using async iterables which means you can easily extract/parse tarballs without ever hitting the file system.
v6.0.6, 3 Jul 2026Apache-2.0 OR MITESM onlyTypes: BundledCompression and archivesParsers and serialisers
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 18.5k
- +8% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 7
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 2 months ago
- v6.0.6
- GitHub stars
- 4
- 3 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 0 / 2
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 2
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
18,493 downloads last week, 62,658 in the last month. The 12-month change of +8% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- -
- Latest version
- 6.0.6, 3 Jul 20262 months ago
- First published
- -
- Last push to GitHub
- 3 Jul 202683 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 0
- Open pull requests
- 2
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 2
- Dependents on npm
- 22
Major versions
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Recent releases
-
- Module format
- ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >=16.0.0
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 309 kB
- Dependencies (7)
p-deferit-readeruint8arraysit-to-bufferiso-constantsuint8arraylistit-stream-types
npm install it-tar- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/it-tar@6.0.6/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/it-tar@6.0.6/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/it-tar@6.0.6
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