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Python 3 Script to Compress All Files in a Folder and Save it as ZIP File Using zipfile Library
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you a
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Python script which will actually
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compress all the files in inside a
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directory and create a zip file so I
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basically written this Python script
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here you will see that we have a bunch
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of files inside this folder which is the
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files folder it contains images it
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contains videos as well so I will
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basically compress everything which is
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present inside this folder and create a
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zipped file so if I just execute this
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Python script here in the terminal just
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type here Python app py so what you will
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see in the left hand side it is creating
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this uh compressed zip file all the
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files have been compressed into a
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compressed output.zip file so it created
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this file here output file here so
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everything is compressed inside this
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folder that was present if you see
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videos and images was present original
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size were 221 MGB and the output size of
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this zip file is 184 mAB so in this easy
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way you can compress uh large files
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which are present inside a uh single
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folder you can compress all the files
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and create a zip file right here so for
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this we are using a free package inside
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Python which is a zip file so you simply
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need to install
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this so this is essentially this package
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here you simply install this pip install
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zip file or pip install zip file 2 so I
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think it comes uh within the default
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installation of Python which is zip file
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you need not have to install it so now
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just create a simple app py file and
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right here you just need to import the
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necessary packages import operating
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system and import zip file after that we
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will define a function here which will
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compress the entire
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folder into a
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zip zip file and here we just need to
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provide the folder path and the output
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zip path so inside this this function
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here we will use this module here zip
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file and it contains this function here
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a series of functions you can use any of
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these functions so I just want to use
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this zip file function and inside this
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we specifically provide the arguments
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the output zip f of path here and be uh
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reading it in write mode and just using
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this constant zip
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file
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zip file
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dot
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zip deflated so you can use any of these
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constants to actually create a zip file
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and then we will be just be creating
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it and then we will basically looping
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through all the files which are present
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in the inside the
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directory so we'll be walking through
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the directory here which is passed
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folder path looping through each file
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for file and files
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so so whatever is the file path we will
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join this by the operating system path
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join
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method and then we will
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simply use this function file
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path so after that we will be uh writing
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the zipped file so we simply say zip dot
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write and we're writing this file here
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at that location file
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path and the arc
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name so after that we can simply print
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out that all your files have been
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successfully all
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files are
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compressed so this is essentially this
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function right here and now we just need
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to call this function
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so whatever is the folder that you want
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to compress you just need to give it the
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name so I already have a folder right
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here if you see the
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files folder where all the files are
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present so I will simply directly pass
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the path here the name of the folder
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after that I will simply provide the
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name of the zip file that needs to be
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created so it will be created in the
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same directory which is compress
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output.zip and then we will simply call
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this folder which is compress folder to
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zip and then pass this
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folder to compress and output zip file
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uh that's all that we need to do output
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zipped
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file so this is essentially the script
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here and uh if I execute this now you
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will see on the left hand side it is
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creating the zip file so based upon how
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many files are present it can take
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longer so now you will see all files are
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successfully compressed and it has
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created this zip file so you can
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actually extract the zip file here so
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various softes are there winner so you
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can extract the
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files and then it will extract all the
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files so it will create this folder
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compressed output which contains the
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original files so in this easy way you
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can use this Python script the link is
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given in the description to get all the
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source code so this will save you a lot
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of time to compress the files into a zip
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file so thank you very much for watching
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