CompressionStream

Baseline 2023

Newly available

Since ⁨May 2023⁩, this feature works across the latest devices and browser versions. This feature might not work in older devices or browsers.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The CompressionStream interface of the Compression Streams API is an API for compressing a stream of data.

Constructor

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

In this example a stream is compressed using gzip compression.

const compressedReadableStream = inputReadableStream.pipeThrough(
  new CompressionStream("gzip"),
);

Specification
Compression # compression-stream

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