stream-unzip
Python function to unZIP on the fly
Details
- External ID
- 46586901
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- stream-unzip
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.41699604743083
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document processing and generation tools
- Vertical
- —
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- stream zip extraction for python
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A streaming ZIP decompressor requires parsing the binary ZIP specification byte-by-byte (local file headers, data descriptors, DEFLATE streams) without seeking, which requires rigorous protocol and compression knowledge.
What it would actually take: The library must implement a streaming finite-state machine that parses ZIP binary structures (local file headers, CRC-32 checksums, variable-length data descriptors) chunk-by-chunk from an arbitrary byte generator. It handles raw DEFLATE decompressor integration (e.g. zlib) without random access to the ZIP central directory at the end of the file. This requires detailed knowledge of the PKWARE ZIP binary file format and low-level compression streaming protocols.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Vulnerability to zip bombs, Need to validate uncompressed data size from untrusted sources
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