ZipSee
explore remote ZIP archives using HTTP range requests
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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.
HN · launched Apr 4, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 1 view
Niche: file conversion and transfer utilities · 152 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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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 : 178 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #163 of 179 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 143 days after the earliest competitor.
- LinkUnzip · ph · 2026-10-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Zipasite · ph · 2026-10-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- webzip-offline-archiver · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Range · hn · 2026-09-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- rarftp · github · 2026-09-29 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Anchor · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- ZipHost · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies · hn · 2026-08-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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