Package
tar-stream
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.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 72.8m
- +101% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 4
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 30 days ago
- v3.2.1
- GitHub stars
- 435
- 105 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 14 / 4
- Contributors
- 45
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 9
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
72,838,521 downloads last week, 331,272,636 in the last month. The 12-month change of +101% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 467 in total
- Latest version
- 3.2.1, 25 Aug 202630 days ago
- First published
- 20 Dec 2013
- Last push to GitHub
- 25 Aug 202630 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 14
- Open pull requests
- 4
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 9
- Dependents on npm
- 1,212
Major versions
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 11 Dec 2022
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 4 Feb 2019
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 24 Sept 2014
- v0 first release 0.1.0, 20 Dec 2013
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 3.2.1 | 25 Aug 2026 |
| 3.2.0 | 29 Apr 2026 |
| 3.1.9 | 29 Apr 2026 |
| 3.1.8 | 28 Feb 2026 |
| 3.1.7 | 19 Jan 2024 |
| 3.1.6 | 5 Jul 2023 |
| 3.1.5 | 2 Jul 2023 |
| 3.1.4 | 21 Jun 2023 |
| 3.1.3 | 20 Jun 2023 |
| 3.1.2 | 19 Jun 2023 |
| 3.1.1 | 17 Jun 2023 |
| 3.1.0 | 17 Jun 2023 |
| 3.0.0 | 11 Dec 2022 |
| 2.2.0 | 29 Dec 2020 |
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- Not declared
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 33 kB
- Dependencies (4)
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npm install tar-stream- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/tar-stream@3.2.1/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/tar-stream@3.2.1/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/tar-stream@3.2.1
Indexability: Indexed.