archiver
Create ZIP and TAR archives with streaming interface for server-side compression.
Files, images and media npm MIT
Used in agent projects
47
0.4% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in files, images and media
#22 of 52
by use in those projects
Downloads
46.6M
npm, last 7 days, archiver
GitHub stars
2,977
last push Oct 10, 2026
How archiver is used
archiver is a dependency in 47 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.4%), #22 of 52 in files, images and media. The most used alternative there is Sharp. Projects that use it most often also use Vitest (46.8%), tsx (38.3%), jsdom (29.8%).
Often used with archiver
| Vitest | 46.8% of archiver projects · 3.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| tsx | 38.3% of archiver projects · 3.9× more than average |
| jsdom | 29.8% of archiver projects · 5.6× more than average |
| Zod | 44.7% of archiver projects · 2.6× more than average |
| uuid | 27.7% of archiver projects · 7.7× more than average |
| TypeScript | 78.7% of archiver projects |
| esbuild | 25.5% of archiver projects · 9.5× more than average |
| rimraf | 25.5% of archiver projects · 14.1× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.8% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 1.0% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list archiver as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install archiver |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (32), Next.js (10), Python (4), PHP (1) |
| Example projects | rajyraman/Levelup-for-Dynamics-CRM, lucasvieirasilva/nx-plugins, confluentinc/vscode, wp-sigmadevs/easy-demo-importer |
Alternatives to archiver
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharp npm High-speed image processing for resizing, converting JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF formats. |
390 (3.1%) | 115M | 32.7K | Apache-2.0 |
| Pillow pypi Python imaging library for image processing, manipulation and conversion. |
292 (2.3%) | 138M | 13.9K | — |
| Nodemailer npm Send emails from Node.js applications with support for multiple transport methods. |
232 (1.8%) | 25.2M | 17.7K | MIT-0 |
| jsPDF npm Generate PDF documents directly from JavaScript in browsers and Node.js. |
184 (1.4%) | 15.6M | 31.3K | MIT |
| qrcode (JavaScript) npm Generate QR codes on server and client using canvas with Node.js and browser support. |
163 (1.3%) | 29.7M | 8,178 | MIT |
| SheetJS npm Parse and generate spreadsheets (Excel, CSV) in Node.js and browsers. |
146 (1.1%) | 12.7M | 36.3K | Apache-2.0 |
| html2canvas npm JavaScript library for taking screenshots of web pages and rendering HTML to canvas. |
115 (0.9%) | 18.5M | 31.9K | MIT |
| 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) |