python-unrar

Work with RAR archive files through unrar library using ctypes.

Install UnRAR library

python-unrar requires UnRAR library. You can download UnRAR library sources from:

http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm

and compile (you may need to rename the makefile that you want to use according to your OS) and install it from there:

$ make lib
$ make install-lib

(latest tested sources: http://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-5.2.6.tar.gz)

For Windows you can also download the already compiled library (http://www.rarlab.com/rar/UnRARDLL.exe).

If you prefer not to install the library, you should make it "findable" by adding the library file to a directory where libraries are searched (or change required environment variable).

As an alternative, you can also set UNRAR_LIB_PATH variable in your environment to the library path and python-unrar will try to load the UnRAR library from there.

Install python-unrar

To install python-unrar:

$ pip install unrar

Examples

>>> from unrar import rarfile
>>> rar = rarfile.RarFile('sample.rar')
>>> rar.namelist()
[u'test_file.txt']
>>> rar.printdir()
File Name                                             Modified             Size
test_file.txt                                  2013-04-14 08:20:28           17
>>> rar.testrar()
>>> info = rar.infolist()[0]
>>> info.filename
u'test_file.txt'
>>> info.file_size
17L
>>> info.date_time
(2013L, 4L, 14L, 8L, 20L, 28L)
>>> rar.extractall()
>>> rar.read('test_file.txt')
'This is for test.'

Docs

Check full documentation in http://python-unrar.readthedocs.org.