README.md


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### 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://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7932.txt).

Brotli is open-sourced under the MIT License, see the LICENSE file.

Brotli mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/brotli

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/google/brotli.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/google/brotli)

### Related projects
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`