Compression Streams API

Available in workers

The Compression Streams API provides a JavaScript API for compressing and decompressing streams of data using the gzip or deflate formats.

Built in compression means that JavaScript applications will not need to include a compression library, which makes the download size of the application smaller.

The Fetch API’s Response can be used to convert streams to:

• ArrayBuffer
• Blob
• Uint8Array
• String
• JSON

Interfaces

• CompressionStream
  • : Compresses a stream of data.
• DecompressionStream
  • : Decompresses a stream of data.

Examples

In this example a stream is compressed using gzip compression.

const compressedReadableStream = inputReadableStream.pipeThrough(
  new CompressionStream("gzip"),
);

In the following example a function decompresses a blob using gzip.

async function DecompressBlob(blob) {
  const ds = new DecompressionStream("gzip");
  const decompressedStream = blob.stream().pipeThrough(ds);
  return await new Response(decompressedStream).blob();
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility