# Zstd bindings for Crystal

**URL:** https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/zstd-bindings-for-crystal/2858
**Category:** Help & Support
**Created:** [January 11, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/zstd-bindings-for-crystal/2858 "2021-01-11T22:27:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![jzakiya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/jzakiya/32/278_2.png) [@jzakiya](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/jzakiya)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/zstd-bindings-for-crystal/2858/1 "2021-01-11T22:27:07Z")

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I was looking at the language bindings for the Zstd compression algorithm below

[https://facebook.github.io/zstd/](https://facebook.github.io/zstd/)

and didn’t see one listed for Crystal. Is there a library or shard that provides this?

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### Author: ![orangeSi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/orangesi/32/1569_2.png) [@orangeSi](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/orangeSi)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2021, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/zstd-bindings-for-crystal/2858/2 "2021-01-12T01:33:08Z")

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maybe you missed below in [Zstandard - Real-time data compression algorithm](https://facebook.github.io/zstd/) ?

 ![xx](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/crystal_lang/original/2X/1/1ba60ad9042a24cda688ae80888063492d7c88da.png)

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### Author: ![jzakiya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/jzakiya/32/278_2.png) [@jzakiya](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/jzakiya)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/zstd-bindings-for-crystal/2858/3 "2021-01-12T13:47:06Z")

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Duh 🙄 Never mind.

I was looking at the top in the c’s. Glad to know it does already exists though.

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### Author: ![carcinocron](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/carcinocron/32/1022_2.png) [@carcinocron](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/carcinocron)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/zstd-bindings-for-crystal/2858/4 "2021-01-12T18:14:13Z")

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Also [CrystalShards](http://crystalshards.xyz/?filter=zstd) is pretty good for finding shards.