RAR archives with java [closed]

Question

Is there a good java API for manipulating RAR archive files someone could recommend? Googling did not turn up anything overwhelmingly convincing.

Diorama

Manipulating, no, because RAR is a closed format. You are allowed to unrar stuff as a developer, but that's about it. Note: I am not a lawyer, but just somebody that went the same path and walked into this one myself. – Trigonometry

Answer 1

You could try JUnRar, "a RAR handling API implemented in pure Java" (quoting the site).

Myopic

Answer 2

There is also this fork from SF(@Fabian's answer and this one are forked from an old SF project):

https://github.com/jukka/java-unrar

Reckoner

Answer 3

I think this will help you.

raroscope

A pure Java library for scanning and enumerating RAR archive contents

Pinafore

As of 2017 it cannot yet unrar, but it was the only updated this year – Bulwark

As of 2019 it cannot unrar. The reason may be because of the license of rar files – Mcclenaghan