Unzip Bot: Open Any Archive

Someone sent you a file with a strange extension and your phone shrugs. Unzip Bot takes this on: you send the archive to the chat, the bot extracts it and returns the contents 🔓

Its profile calls it a powerful unzip bot supporting all formats, password protected files included. Here is what stands behind that in practice.

Formats and passwords

The bot works with the most common archive formats: rar, zip, 7z, tar, iso and more. It accepts files from Telegram as well as direct links to archives.

If an archive is protected by a password, the bot asks for it. You send the password to the chat and wait for the result. It will not guess for you, and that is as it should be 🔑

What a session looks like

1. Send the archive file to the bot.
2. Choose a mode: plain extraction or extraction with a password.
3. If you chose the password mode, type it in.
4. Wait for the bot to send the files from the archive.

It is better to process one archive at a time. Sending several at once can give unpredictable results, and the bot takes no responsibility for errors.

The command menu, in detail

There are noticeably more commands here than in an ordinary extractor. The main ones:

• /plan: shows your plan status and the option to upgrade it.
• /settings: user settings, including the way files are uploaded.
• /savethumb, /showthumb, /deletethumb: save, view and delete your thumbnail.
• /setcaption and /delcaption: set and remove your own caption on files.
• /setchannel and /delchannel: set and remove a redirect to your own channel.
• /status: shows the bot's hardware state.

Multi-part archives

Large files are often cut into pieces. For those cases the menu has /unzip_split, which starts a merge session for the parts, while /cancel_split closes it if you change your mind.

Upload the parts in order and make sure every one is there. Without a single volume the archive will not assemble 📦

What the plan changes

The /plan command shows your plan and how to improve it. Check the exact terms of each level in the bot itself: do not rely on figures from other people's descriptions.

Pay for an upgrade only after testing the free options. If the basic functions are enough for you, there is nothing to change.

A word on handling files

The bot runs on a remote server, so your archive is uploaded there. Personal documents, passport scans and work files under an NDA are better processed on your own computer 🛡

Another danger sits in the contents. An archive from an unknown sender can hide a program instead of documents. Do not launch files with exe, apk, scr or bat extensions if you do not know the source.

If the password arrives in the same message as the archive, or you are told to switch off your antivirus to open it, that is a classic trick of malware distributors.

Who will find it handy

People who often download course materials, fonts, photo sets or projects and do not want an archiver on the phone. It also suits chat admins who get archives full of documents ✅