mholt/archiver
DEPRECATED. Please use mholt/archives instead. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: prerelease_only archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3799
- days_rel: 663
- days_push: 652
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
4378 stars · 393 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
A Go library and CLI tool for creating and extracting archives (tar, zip, rar, 7z) and compressing/decompressing files (gzip, xz, bzip2, zstd, lz4, brotli, snappy) with a unified streaming API. It is deprecated and superseded by mholt/archives.
Use cases
- extract a zip or tar archive in Go
- compress files to gzip or zstd from the command line
- create archives programmatically in Go
- identify archive format by filename or stream headers
- walk archive contents as a virtual file system
When to choose
- maintaining legacy Go code already importing archiver v3 or earlier
- you need its specific CLI behavior and cannot migrate yet
When to avoid
- starting a new Go project - use mholt/archives instead
- you need bug fixes or new features, since development has stopped
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
compression file-system cli files developer-tools cross-platform go cross-platform cli archive-extraction tar zip gzip rar 7zip streaming deprecated successor-mholt-archives
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/mholt/archiver · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9b0bb5438e84
- homepage: https://github.com/mholt/archives · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2179cc2a25f5
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| mholt/archiver | main | 10 |
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