DecompressionStream

Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨May 2023⁩.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The DecompressionStream interface of the Compression Streams API is an API for decompressing a stream of data.

Constructor

DecompressionStream.readable: Returns the ReadableStream instance controlled by this object.
DecompressionStream.writable: Returns the WritableStream instance controlled by this object.

In this example a blob is decompressed using gzip compression.

const ds = new DecompressionStream("gzip");
const decompressedStream = blob.stream().pipeThrough(ds);

Specification
Compression # decompression-stream

This page was last modified on ⁨Apr 22, 2024⁩ by MDN contributors.