adm-zip
Pure JavaScript zip file creation and extraction for Node.js, supporting both in-memory and disk I/O operations.
Files, images and media npm MIT
Used in agent projects
22
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in files, images and media
#47 of 52
by use in those projects
Downloads
23.1M
npm, last 7 days, adm-zip
GitHub stars
2,183
last push Oct 4, 2026
How adm-zip is used
adm-zip is a dependency in 22 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #47 of 52 in files, images and media. The most used alternative there is Sharp. Projects that use it most often also use Zod (54.5%), Vitest (45.5%), Playwright (JavaScript) (36.4%).
Often used with adm-zip
| Zod | 54.5% of adm-zip projects · 3.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vitest | 45.5% of adm-zip projects · 3.7× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 36.4% of adm-zip projects · 4.1× more than average |
| Model Context Protocol SDK (JavaScript) | 31.8% of adm-zip projects · 6.7× more than average |
| Prettier | 45.5% of adm-zip projects · 2.6× more than average |
| TypeScript | 77.3% of adm-zip projects |
| ESLint | 63.6% of adm-zip projects · 1.7× more than average |
| dotenv | 40.9% of adm-zip projects · 2.6× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list adm-zip as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install adm-zip |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (19), Next.js (3) |
| Example projects | Cap-go/capgo.app, Hive-Academy/ptah-extension, tamer4lynx/tamer4lynx, joshspicer/apple-developer-docs-mcp |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| html2canvas npm JavaScript library for taking screenshots of web pages and rendering HTML to canvas. |
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| JSZip npm JavaScript library for creating, reading and editing ZIP archives in the browser. |
96 (0.8%) | 47.5M | 10.4K | (MIT OR GPL-3.0-or-later) |