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<p align="center"><img src="https://brotli.org/brotli.svg" alt="Brotli" width="64"></p> 

### 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. 

Brotli mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/brotli
 
[![TravisCI Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/google/brotli.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/google/brotli) 
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### Build instructions 
 
#### Autotools-style CMake 
 
[configure-cmake](https://github.com/nemequ/configure-cmake) is an 
autotools-style configure script for CMake-based projects (not supported on Windows). 
 
The basic commands to build, test and install brotli are: 
 
    $ mkdir out && cd out 
    $ ../configure-cmake 
    $ make 
    $ make test 
    $ make install 
   
By default, debug binaries are built. To generate "release" `Makefile` specify `--disable-debug` option to `configure-cmake`. 
 
#### 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. 
 
#### Premake5 
 
See [Premake5](https://premake.github.io/) 
 
#### 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. 
 
### 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)