Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: rars
Version: 0.10.2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14
Classifier: Programming Language :: Rust
Classifier: Topic :: System :: Archiving :: Compression
License-File: COPYING
Summary: Python bindings for rars RAR archive toolkit
Home-Page: https://github.com/bitplane/rars
Author-email: Gareth Davidson <gaz@bitplane.net>, Yehor Smoliakov <yehors@ukr.net>
License-Expression: Apache-2.0
Requires-Python: >=3.10
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=UTF-8; variant=GFM

# rars

A Rust implementation of RAR.

* 🏠 [home](https://bitplane.net/dev/rust/rars)
* 📦 [downloads](https://github.com/bitplane/rars/releases)
  * 🦀 [crates](https://crates.io/crates/rars)
  * 🐍 [pypi](https://pypi.org/project/rars)
  * 📜 [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bitplane/rars)
* 🐱 [source](https://github.com/bitplane/rars)
  * 📃 [spec](https://github.com/bitplane/rar-research)

`rars` is free software for compression, decompression and recovery of RAR
archives. It supports all the archive types I could find - from the early `RE~^`
ones from the DOS days all the way through to RAR 7. It comes with a Rust
library, a CLI, Python and TypeScript bindings.

It started as an
[agentic development experiment](https://bitplane.net/log/2026/05/rars/), and
has since matured as it gained some users. It's still a bit slower than WinRAR,
uses more memory and has slightly worse compression. It could use more testing
at volume, too. Other than that it's in pretty good shape.

## Install

```sh
cargo install rars-cli       # the CLI
cargo add rars               # the Rust library
pip install rars             # Python
npm install @bitplane/rars   # JavaScript, as WebAssembly for Node or the browser
```

Then `rars --help`. For example:

```sh
rars x archive.rar out/
rars a --format rar29 --solid archive.rar files...
rars a --format rar70 --volume-size 10m archive.part1.rar files...
```

Licensed under the [Apache License, Version 2.0](COPYING).

