How to extract Files and Folders from a Zip Archive in Python

Zip archives are ubiquitous these days, making it all the more important to have compatibility for them in your project, whatever it may be. I’m guessing you don’t have hours to kill on setting this up from scratch, so I’ll be showing you the easy-as-pie method instead.

Get the Cloudmersive Documents and Conversion API client with pip install:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

We will next call zip_archive_zip_extract, which should be done using a newly instantiated API, like so:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ZipArchiveApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
try:
# Extract, decompress files and folders from a zip archive
api_response = api_instance.zip_archive_zip_extract(input_file)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling ZipArchiveApi->zip_archive_zip_extract: %s\n" % e)

And now you have zip extraction. Simple.