Download Asar App
Cherly Womeldorff
Previously I copied this with a walk and copy function but it ended up creating a directory named filename.asar instead of an actual file named filename.asar This function seems to work on all other files and folders correctly (except for .asar archives).
For some cases like verifying the ASAR archive's checksum, we need to read thecontent of an ASAR archive as a file. For this purpose you can use the built-inoriginal-fs module which provides original fs APIs without asar support:
The Stats object returned by fs.stat and its friends on files in asararchives is generated by guessing, because those files do not exist on thefilesystem. So you should not trust the Stats object except for getting filesize and checking file type.
This is because exec and spawn accept command instead of file as input,and commands are executed under shell. There is no reliable way to determinewhether a command uses a file in asar archive, and even if we do, we can not besure whether we can replace the path in command without side effects.
After running the command, you will notice that a folder named app.asar.unpackedwas created together with the app.asar file. It contains the unpacked filesand should be shipped together with the app.asar archive.
Personally I'm not a node developer and can't talk about the necessity and usefulness of that new archive format. Anyway, it is already in use. I was looking through the resources of some commercial software recently and have encountered that asar archive. I haven't managed to find an archiver capable of opening it. So I just need a tool to unpack it.
7z bitness? Do you see asar format in compress dialog? Do you see any error message when you try to open your asar file? Can I test your asar file? Could you upload it to any hosting or send me it to support @ tc4shell.com?
Count me as plus one for adding .ASAR support. I'm finding some of my tech magazine archives are arriving as .asar files. I have to know which one contains a topic to open the "right" one from their UI's index. I want to extract the individual magazines, convert them to .PDF's, and index them so I don't spend lots of time in trial-and-error extraction through their UI.
Asar7z is a small plugin for the popular 7-Zip archiver. You can use Asar7z with 7-Zip to open, modify, or create .asar archives, which are used for packaging applications based on the Electron framework.
To install the plugin into the 7-Zip installation folder, you need to create the "Formats" subfolder. After that, copy Asar.64.dll or Asar.32.dll (depending on your 7-Zip edition) to that subfolder. If you do that, each time you launch 7-Zip, it will automatically find Asar7z and use it when opening .asar files.
When packaging their applications, some Electron app developers may create encrypted .asar archives. You cannot access the contents of such archives unless you know the specific encryption method.Current version
- Plugin version: 1.5
- Distribution package size: 202 KB
- Distribution package release date: 14 Nov 2023