Extract tarballs in your gulp build pipeline
Accepts source files with either stream or Buffer contents. Outputs files with Buffer contents.
$ npm install --save-dev gulp-untar var gulp = require('gulp')
var untar = require('gulp-untar')
gulp.task('extract-archives', function () {
return gulp.src('./archive/*.tar')
.pipe(untar())
.pipe(gulp.dest('./extracted'))
})In combination with gulp-gunzip and vinyl-source-stream:
var gulp = require('gulp')
var request = require('request')
var source = require('vinyl-source-stream')
var gunzip = require('gulp-gunzip')
var untar = require('gulp-untar')
gulp.task('default', function () {
return request('http://example.org/some-file.tar.gz')
.pipe(source('some-file.tar.gz'))
.pipe(gunzip())
.pipe(untar())
.pipe(gulp.dest('output'))
})