Extract selected archive members
Pull the members you name out of a ZIP or TAR archive and download exactly those files as one ZIP.
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Questions people ask
- How do I name the members to extract?
- One per line, exactly as the archive lists them. A line naming a file pulls that file. A line ending in a slash pulls the whole folder subtree under that path, and naming a folder entry itself, with or without its trailing slash, expands the same way. Blank lines and repeated lines are dropped and counted, and the selection report lists every line that matched nothing.
- Which archives does it accept?
- ZIP archives and the standard TAR variants: plain tar, gzip (.tar.gz), bzip2 (.tar.bz2) and xz (.tar.xz), up to 100 MB. Anything unrecognisable is refused rather than guessed at.
- How are unsafe entries handled?
- Symbolic links, hard links, devices and FIFOs are never followed or materialised, and password-protected members are classed but never decrypted. Every skipped entry is counted, with the first few named in the result and the report. Member paths follow the same tested sanitising rule as the other archive tools, so the output keeps only relative, predictable paths, and repeated names are made unambiguous with numbered suffixes.
- What does the selection report contain?
- One row per selection line: whether it matched a single member, expanded a subtree, or matched nothing, plus counts for blank, duplicate and dropped lines, and the skipped entries with their reasons. It echoes only what you submitted and the archive's member names, never file contents.
- What are the limits?
- Up to 500 selection lines of 300 characters each, 2048 extracted files, 100 MB per member and 256 MB of total extracted content. The declared budget is checked before any extraction starts, so an over-cap selection is refused without writing a partial result.
- What happens to my files?
- The upload is deleted as soon as processing finishes; the ZIP and its report stay downloadable for about 10 minutes, then are deleted automatically.