XZ/BZ2/ZSTD Extractor
Extract XZ, Bzip2, and Zstandard compressed files.
Free & unlimited
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About this tool
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Upload compressed file
Select an XZ, BZIP2, or ZSTD compressed file from your computer.
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Detect format
The tool auto-detects the compression format from the file header.
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Extract
Decompress the file to reveal the original content.
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Download
Download the decompressed output file.
- XZ provides excellent compression ratios but is slower to decompress than GZIP or ZSTD.
- ZSTD (Zstandard) is a modern format from Facebook that offers fast decompression with good compression ratios.
- If the extracted file is a .tar archive, you'll need to extract it again to access individual files.
- Supports XZ, BZIP2, and ZSTD compression formats
- Auto-detection of compression format from file headers
- Handles .tar.xz, .tar.bz2, and .tar.zst compound archives
- Progress indicator for large file decompression
- Browser-based decompression with no server upload
- Extracting Linux distribution images distributed as .iso.xz files
- Decompressing XZ-compressed database backups or log archives
- Opening BZIP2 files from legacy Unix systems
- Extracting ZSTD-compressed files from modern data pipelines