Archives
Create, inspect, and extract ZIP archives.
Create a ZIP archive
Bundle files, or a whole folder, into a single ZIP archive.
Extract a ZIP archive
Inspect an archive's contents, then extract the files you actually want.
List ZIP contents
See every file in an archive, with sizes and dates, without extracting anything.
About these tools
Create ZIP archives, inspect what is inside one before extracting it, and extract the entries you want, all without installing an archive tool or uploading anything. Archives are streamed rather than loaded whole, which is why the size limit here is far higher than for other formats.
Extraction lists the contents first on purpose. An archive from an unknown source can contain entries whose paths point outside the folder you extract into, and those are shown and blocked rather than quietly written.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I open a ZIP file in my browser?
- Yes. Choose the archive and its contents are listed immediately, with file names and sizes, before anything is extracted. You then pick which entries you want. This is often quicker than extracting a large archive just to retrieve one file from it.
- Can I extract RAR or 7z files?
- No. Neither has a reliable, appropriately licensed implementation that runs in a browser, so they are left out rather than half-supported. ZIP is handled fully, including archives that other tools produce.
- Does it support password-protected ZIP files?
- Not currently. An encrypted archive is reported as such rather than failing with an obscure error. Removing the password with the tool that applied it and re-archiving is the workaround.
- How large an archive can I handle?
- Up to 250 MB, which is much higher than the other limits because entries are streamed one at a time rather than parsed into a document in memory. Phones are warned earlier, since they have far less headroom.
- Does creating a ZIP keep my folder structure?
- Yes. You can choose a whole folder and the paths inside the archive match what you selected, so unzipping it elsewhere reproduces the same layout.
- Are the files I archive uploaded?
- No. The ZIP is built in your browser's memory and handed to you as a download. Nothing is sent, which also means there is no upload time: the limit on speed is your own device.