---
layout: page
title: "Extract Tar"
node_type: "lib.tar.ExtractTar"
namespace: "lib.tar"
---

**Type:** `lib.tar.ExtractTar`

**Namespace:** `lib.tar`

## Description

Extract a tar archive to a folder.
    files, tar, extract

    Use cases:
    - Unpack archived data
    - Restore backups
    - Retrieve files for processing

## Properties

| Property | Type | Description | Default |
|----------|------|-------------|----------|
| tar_path | `str` | Tar archive to extract | `` |
| output_folder | `str` | Folder to extract into | `` |

## Outputs

| Output | Type | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| output | `str` |  |

## Metadata

## Related Nodes

Browse other nodes in the [lib.tar](../) namespace.

