diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8fb6680..1a44f91 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ using CSVFiles, DataFrames
 df = DataFrame(load("data.csv"))
 ````
 
+To read a gzipped CSV file into a ``DataFrame``:
+
+````julia
+using CSVFiles, DataFrames
+
+df = DataFrame(load(File(format"CSV", "data.csv.gz")))
+````
+
 The call to ``load`` returns a ``struct`` that is an [IterableTable.jl](https://github.com/queryverse/IterableTables.jl), so it can be passed to any function that can handle iterable tables, i.e. all the sinks in [IterableTable.jl](https://github.com/queryverse/IterableTables.jl). Here are some examples of materializing a CSV file into data structures that are not a ``DataFrame``:
 
 ````julia
@@ -87,6 +95,14 @@ save("output.csv", it)
 ````
 This will work as long as ``it`` is any of the types supported as sources in [IterableTables.jl](https://github.com/queryverse/IterableTables.jl).
 
+Compressed CSV files can be created by specifying the ``.gz`` file extension:
+
+````julia
+using CSVFiles
+
+save(File(format"CSV", "output.csv.gz"), df)
+````
+
 One can also save into an arbitrary stream:
 ````julia
 using CSVFiles
diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index 2a22d71..5fefc2d 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ FileIO 1.0.1
 HTTP 0.6.14
 IterableTables 0.8.3
 TableShowUtils 0.1.1
+CodecZlib 0.5.2
diff --git a/src/CSVFiles.jl b/src/CSVFiles.jl
index 9f4995f..cc4b887 100644
--- a/src/CSVFiles.jl
+++ b/src/CSVFiles.jl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module CSVFiles
 
 using TextParse, IteratorInterfaceExtensions, TableTraits, TableTraitsUtils,
-    DataValues, FileIO, HTTP, TableShowUtils
+    DataValues, FileIO, HTTP, TableShowUtils, CodecZlib
 import IterableTables
 
 export load, save, File, @format_str
diff --git a/src/csv_writer.jl b/src/csv_writer.jl
index 960dbb9..d62f660 100644
--- a/src/csv_writer.jl
+++ b/src/csv_writer.jl
@@ -65,8 +65,16 @@ end
 function _save(filename::AbstractString, data; delim=',', quotechar='"', escapechar='"', nastring="NA", header=true)
     isiterabletable(data) || error("Can't write this data to a CSV file.")
 
-    open(filename, "w") do io
-        _save(io, data, delim=delim, quotechar=quotechar, escapechar=escapechar, nastring=nastring,  header=header)
+    ext = last(split(filename, '.'))
+
+    if ext == "gz" # Gzipped
+        open(GzipCompressorStream, filename, "w") do io
+            _save(io, data, delim=delim, quotechar=quotechar, escapechar=escapechar, nastring=nastring,  header=header)
+        end
+    else
+        open(filename, "w") do io
+            _save(io, data, delim=delim, quotechar=quotechar, escapechar=escapechar, nastring=nastring,  header=header)
+        end
     end
 end
 
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index c40f193..8007efc 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -146,6 +146,32 @@ end
     end
 end
 
+@testset "Compression" begin
+    data = [(Name="John",Age=34.,Children=2),(Name="Sally",Age=54.,Children=1),(Name="Jim",Age=23.,Children=0)]
+
+    @testset "CSV" begin
+        output_filename = "output.csv.gz"
+        try
+            save(File(format"CSV", output_filename), data)
+            reloaded_data = collect(load(File(format"CSV", output_filename)))
+            @test reloaded_data == data
+        finally
+            rm(output_filename)
+        end
+    end
+
+    @testset "TSV" begin
+        output_filename = "output.tsv.gz"
+        try
+            save(File(format"TSV", output_filename), data)
+            reloaded_data = collect(load(File(format"TSV", output_filename)))
+            @test reloaded_data == data
+        finally
+            rm(output_filename)
+        end
+    end
+end
+
 @testset "show" begin
     x = load(joinpath(@__DIR__, "data.csv"))