adamhathcock/sharpcompress
SharpCompress is a fully managed C# library to deal with many compression types and formats. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
97/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 95
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 5
- age_days: 4896
- days_rel: 32
- days_push: 13
- n_releases_24m: 32
Adoption not part of the score
2577 stars · 519 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
SharpCompress is a fully managed pure C# compression library for .NET supporting many archive formats (zip, tar, gzip, bzip2, 7zip, rar, xz, zstandard, and more) with both forward-only reading and random access APIs. It supports non-seekable streams for on-the-fly processing, async I/O, and write support for several formats.
Use cases
- extract zip tar and 7zip archives in C#
- unrar files without native libraries in .NET
- read archives from a non-seekable download stream
- create zip or tar.gz archives programmatically in .NET
- decompress gzip bzip2 xz and zstandard streams
- process large archive files on the fly with async I/O
When to choose
- you need a pure managed .NET solution with no native dependencies
- you must handle many archive formats with one library
- you need to read archives from network or non-seekable streams
- you need async extraction or custom compression providers
When to avoid
- you need maximum RAR compression fidelity (RAR is proprietary and read-only here)
- you need streamable 7zip writing (7zip does not support streamable formats)
- you are outside the .NET ecosystem
Facets
library · maturity active
compression file-system parser files developer-tools cross-platform dotnet cross-platform c c-sharp archive-extraction zip tar gzip 7zip rar zstandard streaming async-io
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/adamhathcock/sharpcompress · fetched 2026-08-28 · b77e59d7d34f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| adamhathcock/sharpcompress | main | 97 |
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