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Is there any way to open a .tif image within a .zip file with rasterio, without having to extract the .tif from the zip?

I have thousands of images which are nicely grouped in zip files and I want to analyse them with rasterio. Extracting all the images is going to take up quite a bit of storage so if possible I prefer not to...

Thanks!

jchristiaanse
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Yes, rasterio can open datasets contained within .zip files. Use the zip+file protocol, and separate the zip path from the path within the zip file with a !.

Example code:

import rasterio

path = 'zip+file:///path/to/file.zip!/folder/file.tif'
dataset = rasterio.open(path)

There's more information on the Advanced Datasets documentation page.

Damien Ayers
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