ZipSee
explore remote ZIP archives using HTTP range requests
Details
- External ID
- 47637346
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ZipSee
- Website domain
- pages.dev
- Launched
- April 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
A small tool that uses HTTP range requests to explore ZIP archives remotely — list contents and download specific files without fetching the entire archive.Try out this URL (https://docs.python.org/3/archives/python-3.14-docs-text.zip) as an example.
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browse remote zip files without downloading
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The client app parses zip headers using standard HTTP Range requests, decodes them with libraries like fflate, and relies on a simple CORS proxy worker.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Feature requests: Encrypted ZIP support, Nested ZIP handling
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 67 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #62 of 68 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 143 days after the earliest competitor.
- ZipHost · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- QwikZip · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies · hn · 2026-08-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- stream-unzip · hn · 2026-01-12 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I wrote a ~2KB executable file HTTP file downloader without Libc · hn · 2026-03-29 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- MacPacker · hn · 2026-08-11 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- HTMLPipe, and how to archive archive.is pages on archive.org manually · hn · 2026-03-30 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Partial content web crawling using HTTP/2 and Go · hn · 2026-01-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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