wget-lua
Wget-AT is a modern Wget with Lua hooks, Zstandard (+dictionary) WARC compression and URL-agnostic deduplication. (by ArchiveTeam)
libarchive
Multi-format archive and compression library (by libarchive)
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| 81 | 2,878 | |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wget-lua
Posts with mentions or reviews of wget-lua.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-10.
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Alternative to HTTrack (website copier) as of 2023?
You're using it wrong, rtfm, wget is still the standard. It's also extensible beyond the base feature set, take for example wget-lua ArchiveTeams well maintained go to for near all scraping projects by the group.
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Kiwix - Access Wikipedia (And More) With no Internet
There are updates changed names but still use more frequent updates than the dumps to get started. I know there is kiwix and xowa. Could probably build it up to current and use wget-at to scrap wikipedia solo. If you want it in html it'll proboy only be a hundred 100TB give or take. I'm wondering if any of the groups are still active on IRC. Saw mentions of a few but I lost my place in all the mobile chrome tabs.
libarchive
Posts with mentions or reviews of libarchive.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-29.
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The XZ attack and timeline
29. October 2021 At this point Jia Tan pops up, and the first thing we see from him is an innocuous patch to the xz repository, and while a lot of people believe he started out trying his luck with another library also known as libarchive, this is not the case, I would bet it’s more of a backup looking at the dates, being that there are a few days in between as shown in this commit.
- Zip entry size unset now honors user requested compression level
- Suspicious libarchive pull request
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Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Potentially malicious commit by same author on libarchive: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1609
- WinRAR musste shady werden.
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Making Amiga IFF Thumbnails Work in Linux
Full agreement, and with the addition of xpk¹/xfd² as natural extensions to that extensibility too. I see things like xfd supporting xz¹, and I'm simultaneously amazed that it exists and happy that I don't need to do xz {,de}compression on 68k ;)
I guess we have something similar-ish with libarchive⁴, but nobody(including me) has pushed the extra mile to get file dialogs to support random compression and decompression formats.
Beyond OT: I didn't realise how much stuff was still going on at aminet, but I love love LOVE that people are still dropping new car sets for Geoff Crammond's F1GP.
¹ http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xpk_User
² http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xfdmaster
³ http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xfd_lzma.lha
⁴ https://www.libarchive.org/
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WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts
I don't have a preview channel install handy to check, but apparently they're using libarchive so here's the full list assuming they expose everything it supports:
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveForm...
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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23493 for the Dev Channel
As announced at the Build conference back in May, this build adds native support for reading additional archive file formats using the libarchive open-source project such as
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Poor winrar
LibarchiveFormats · libarchive/libarchive Wiki · GitHub
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Windows 11 getting native support for 7-Zip, RAR, and GZ archives
Seems what they're using is BSD-liscensed: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wget-lua and libarchive you can also consider the following projects:
7-Zip-zstd - 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard
ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.