### Introduction
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data
using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding
and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best
currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed
with deflate but offers more dense compression.
The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in [RFC 7932](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7932).
Brotli is open-sourced under the MIT License, see the LICENSE file.
> **Please note:** brotli is a "stream" format; it does not contain
> meta-information, like checksums or uncompresssed data length. It is possible
> to modify "raw" ranges of the compressed stream and the decoder will not
> notice that.
### Build instructions
#### Vcpkg
You can download and install brotli using the [vcpkg](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/) dependency manager:
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
cd vcpkg
./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh
./vcpkg integrate install
./vcpkg install brotli
The brotli port in vcpkg is kept up to date by Microsoft team members and community contributors. If the version is out of date, please [create an issue or pull request](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg) on the vcpkg repository.
#### Bazel
See [Bazel](http://www.bazel.build/)
#### CMake
The basic commands to build and install brotli are:
$ mkdir out && cd out
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=./installed ..
$ cmake --build . --config Release --target install
You can use other [CMake](https://cmake.org/) configuration.
#### Python
To install the latest release of the Python module, run the following:
$ pip install brotli
To install the tip-of-the-tree version, run:
$ pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/google/brotli
See the [Python readme](python/README.md) for more details on installing
from source, development, and testing.
### Contributing
We glad to answer/library related questions in
[brotli mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/brotli).
Regular issues / feature requests should be reported in
[issue tracker](https://github.com/google/brotli/issues).
For reporting vulnerability please read [SECURITY](SECURITY.md).
For contributing changes please read [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md).
### Benchmarks
* [Squash Compression Benchmark](https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/) / [Unstable Squash Compression Benchmark](https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/unstable/)
* [Large Text Compression Benchmark](http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html)
* [Lzturbo Benchmark](https://sites.google.com/site/powturbo/home/benchmark)
### Related projects
> **Disclaimer:** Brotli authors take no responsibility for the third party projects mentioned in this section.
Independent [decoder](https://github.com/madler/brotli) implementation by Mark Adler, based entirely on format specification.
JavaScript port of brotli [decoder](https://github.com/devongovett/brotli.js). Could be used directly via `npm install brotli`
Hand ported [decoder / encoder](https://github.com/dominikhlbg/BrotliHaxe) in haxe by Dominik Homberger. Output source code: JavaScript, PHP, Python, Java and C#
7Zip [plugin](https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-Zstd)
Dart [native bindings](https://github.com/thosakwe/brotli)
Dart compression framework with [fast FFI-based Brotli implementation](https://pub.dev/documentation/es_compression/latest/brotli/brotli-library.html) with ready-to-use prebuilt binaries for Win/Linux/Mac