Quick Start

zesven is a pure-Rust library for reading and writing 7z archives.

Installation

cargo add zesven

Extract an Archive

use zesven::{Archive, ExtractOptions};

fn main() -> zesven::Result<()> {
    let mut archive = Archive::open_path("archive.7z")?;
    archive.extract("./output", (), &ExtractOptions::default())?;
    Ok(())
}

Create an Archive

use zesven::{Writer, ArchivePath};

fn main() -> zesven::Result<()> {
    let mut writer = Writer::create_path("backup.7z")?;
    writer.add_path("document.pdf", ArchivePath::new("document.pdf")?)?;
    writer.finish()?;
    Ok(())
}

What's Next?

Cookbook — practical examples for common tasks

By Task

I want to...	Go to
Open and list archive contents	Reading Archives
Extract specific files	Selective Extraction
Create compressed archives	Writing Archives
Work with encrypted archives	Encryption
Process large archives efficiently	Streaming API
Use async/await with Tokio	Async API

Reference

• Feature Flags — customize your build
• Error Handling — error types and patterns
• API Docs — full API reference on docs.rs