rarfile - RAR archive reader for Python

This is Python module for RAR archive reading. The interface is made as zipfile like as possible. Licensed under ISC license.

Features:

• Supports both RAR2 and RAR3 archives (WinRAR 2.x .. WinRAR 4.x).
• Supports multi volume archives.
• Supports Unicode filenames.
• Supports password-protected archives.
• Supports archive and file comments.
• Archive parsing and non-compressed files are handled in pure Python code.
• Compressed files are extracted by executing external tool: either unrar from RARLAB or bsdtar from libarchive.
• Works with both Python 2.7 and 3.x.

Notes:

• Does not support the RAR5 format introduced in WinRAR 5.0.
• bsdtar does not support all RAR3 features.

Links:

• Documentation
• Downloads
• Git repo