rarfile - RAR archive reader for Python

This is Python module for RAR_ archive reading. The interface follows the style of zipfile_. Licensed under ISC_ license.

Features:

• Supports both RAR3 and RAR5 format archives.
• Supports multi volume archives.
• Supports Unicode filenames.
• Supports password-protected archives.
• Supports archive and file comments.
• Archive parsing and non-compressed files are handled in pure Python code.
• Compressed files are extracted by executing external tool: unrar_ (preferred), unar_, 7zip_ or bsdtar_.
• Works with Python 3.6+.

.. RAR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR%28file_format%29 .. _zipfile: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipfile.html .. _ISC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license .. _bsdtar: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive .. _unrar: https://www.rarlab.com/ .. _unar: https://theunarchiver.com/command-line .. _7zip: https://www.7-zip.org/

Backends:

+-------------+----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | Backend | Status | Notes | +=============+======================+=====================================================+ | unrar_ | Supported | * Recommended: full format support. | | | | * Non-free software, but free to use. | +-------------+----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | unar_ | Supported | * Not usable on Windows: last build is from 2013 | | | | (v1.8.1) that does support output to stdout. | | | | * Does not support RAR2 locked files. | | | | * Does not support RAR5 Blake2 hash checking. | +-------------+----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | 7zip_ | Supported | * RAR support not available on Debian/Ubuntu repos. | +-------------+----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | p7zip_ | Supported | * Unmaintained? | | | | * Requires p7zip-rar package on Debian/Ubuntu. | +-------------+----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | bsdtar_ | Supported | * Not recommended: limited RAR format support. | | | | * Does not support multi-volume archives. | | | | * Does not support solid archives. | | | | * Does not support password-protected archives. | | | | * Does not support RARVM-based compression filters. | +-------------+----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | unrar-free_ | Not supported | * Unusable: Does not support output to stdout. | | | | * Based on libarchive so similar format support | | | | as bsdtar. | +-------------+----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+

.. _p7zip: https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/ .. _unrar-free: https://gitlab.com/bgermann/unrar-free

Links:

• Documentation_
• Downloads_
• Git_ repo

.. _Git: https://github.com/markokr/rarfile .. _Downloads: https://pypi.org/project/rarfile/#files .. _Documentation: https://rarfile.readthedocs.io/