CompressionStream

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

Constructor

CompressionStream()

Creates a new CompressionStream

Instance properties

CompressionStream.readable

Returns the ReadableStream instance controlled by this object.

CompressionStream.writable

Returns the WritableStream instance controlled by this object.

Examples

In this example a stream is compressed using gzip compression.

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

Specifications

Specification
Compression
# compression-stream

Browser compatibility