https://github.com/python-hyper/brotlicffi

Python bindings to the Brotli compression library
https://github.com/python-hyper/brotlicffi

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Python bindings to the Brotli compression library

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/python-hyper/brotlicffi
• Owner: python-hyper
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-10-02T08:45:45.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-11-22T07:12:08.000Z (about 1 month ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-12-07T08:43:06.126Z (15 days ago)
• Topics: brotli, python
• Language: Python
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• Size: 244 KB
• Stars: 149
• Watchers: 14
• Forks: 29
• Open Issues: 14
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • Changelog: HISTORY.rst
  • License: LICENSE
  • Security: SECURITY.md

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BrotliCFFI

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This library contains Python CFFI bindings for the reference Brotli encoder/decoder,

`available here`_. This allows Python software to use the Brotli compression

algorithm directly from Python code.

Install from PyPI:

.. code-block::

    $ python -m pip install brotlicffi

Install from Conda:

.. code-block::

    $ conda install -c conda-forge brotlicffi

To use it simply, try this:

.. code-block:: python

    import brotlicffi

    data = brotlicffi.decompress(compressed_data)

More information can be found `in the documentation`_.

.. _available here: https://github.com/google/brotli

.. _in the documentation: https://brotlipy.readthedocs.org

Using BrotliCFFI in Projects

----------------------------

The API is 100% compatible with the `Brotli Python C bindings`_.

We recommend installing the C bindings on CPython and the CFFI

bindings everywhere else (PyPy, etc)

Essentially you use requirements like this:

 .. code-block:: python

    install_requires=[

        "brotli; platform_python_implementation == 'CPython'",

        "brotlicffi; platform_python_implementation != 'CPython'"

    ]

and then import the correct Brotli library like so:

 .. code-block:: python

    try:

        import brotlicffi as brotli

    except ImportError:

        import brotli

We provide an `example project`_ that shows how to use both

libraries together to support Brotli with multiple Python implementations.

.. _Brotli Python C bindings: https://pypi.org/project/Brotli

.. _example project: https://github.com/python-hyper/brotlipy/tree/master/example

License

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The source code of BrotliCFFI is available under the MIT license. Brotli itself

is made available under the Version 2.0 of the Apache Software License. See the

LICENSE and libbrotli/LICENSE files for more information.

Authors

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BrotliCFFI/brotlipy was authored by Cory Benfield and

is currently maintained by Seth Michael Larson.