How to extract Files and Folders from a Zip Archive in Node.JS

Having Zip extraction capabilities in your app or website can open up some excellent potential possibilities. What do you say I show you how to get this set up in no time flat?

With this dependency reference for package.json, we can install our API client, allowing us to continue on.

"dependencies": {
    "cloudmersive-convert-api-client": "^2.1.6"
  }

From there, we just need to call our zipArchiveZipExtract function:

var CloudmersiveConvertApiClient = require('cloudmersive-convert-api-client');
var defaultClient = CloudmersiveConvertApiClient.ApiClient.instance;
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
var Apikey = defaultClient.authentications['Apikey'];
Apikey.apiKey = 'YOUR API KEY';
// Uncomment the following line to set a prefix for the API key, e.g. "Token" (defaults to null)
//Apikey.apiKeyPrefix = 'Token';
var apiInstance = new CloudmersiveConvertApiClient.ZipArchiveApi();
var inputFile = "/path/to/file"; // File | Input file to perform the operation on.
var callback = function(error, data, response) {
if (error) {
console.error(error);
} else {
console.log('API called successfully. Returned data: ' + data);
}
};
apiInstance.zipArchiveZipExtract(inputFile, callback);

That’s really about it. The rest is pretty self-explanatory.