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### Introduction
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Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data
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using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding
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and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best
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currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed
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with deflate but offers more dense compression.
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The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in the
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following internet draft:
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http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-alakuijala-brotli
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Brotli is open-sourced under the MIT License, see the LICENSE file.
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Brotli mailing list:
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/brotli
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[](https://travis-ci.org/google/brotli)
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### Related projects
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Independent [decoder](https://github.com/madler/brotli) implementation by Mark Adler, based entirely on format specification.
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JavaScript port of brotli [decoder](https://github.com/devongovett/brotli.js). Could be used directly via `npm install brotli`
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