unzip-http

Extract individual files from .zip files over http without downloading the entire archive.

Install

pip install unzip-http

Usage

unzip-http <url.zip> <filenames..>

Extract from a remote .zip at <url> to stdout.

If no filenames given, displays .zip contents (filenames and sizes).

Each filename can be a wildcard glob; all matching files are concatenated and sent to stdout in zipfile order.

Note: HTTP server must send Accept-Ranges: bytes and Content-Length in headers.

Python module unzip_http

import unzip_http

rzf = unzip_http.RemoteZipFile('https://example.com/foo.zip')
binfp = rzf.open('bar.bin')
txtfp = rzf.open_text('baz.txt')

Credits

unzip-http was written by Saul Pwanson and made available for use under the MIT License.