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Slayn
Slayn

Reputation: 11

Create zip files using jQuery

I have an array of files and I want to create a zip file out of this array.

Is there a way to create zip files using jQuery?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7284

Answers (1)

Jani Hartikainen
Jani Hartikainen

Reputation: 43253

You can use the JSZip library mentioned by several people to create the zip. However, forcing a download from javascript and having it use a custom filename is a different matter.

HTML5 introduces a download attribute on <a>s. You could use it like this:

<a href="your_zip_data_uri_here" download="something.zip">download</a>

Which would force the download as "something.zip" in browsers supporting the download attribute. However, besides this, there is no way to do it from JavaScript.

Upvotes: 5

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