# How to enter a ZIP file password in KNIME software

**URL:** <https://forum.knime.com/t/how-to-enter-a-zip-file-password-in-knime-software/91032>\
**Category:** KNIME Extensions\
**Tags:** scripting, text-processing\
**Created:** [December 21, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/how-to-enter-a-zip-file-password-in-knime-software/91032 "2025-12-21T18:16:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![alex1368](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@alex1368](https://forum.knime.com/u/alex1368)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/how-to-enter-a-zip-file-password-in-knime-software/91032/1 "2025-12-21T18:16:32Z")

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Hello friends  
I have a lot of ZIP files that I want to extract through KNIME, but I have a problem and that is that some of these files have passwords that I have to enter manually! Now I want to enter their passwords through KNIME through my password list and then my loop continues

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**Author:** ![rfeigel](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7ea924/32.png) [@rfeigel](https://forum.knime.com/u/rfeigel)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/how-to-enter-a-zip-file-password-in-knime-software/91032/2 "2025-12-22T01:56:41Z")

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Try the External Tool (Labs) node with the following command line. (WinRAR.)

```auto
"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe" x -pMySecretPassword my_archive.rar "C:\Extraction\Path\"

```

WinZip

```auto
WZUNZIP.EXE filename.zip destination_folder -s"yourpassword"

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/uploads/default/original/1X/ab3ccf34482a0329361734a18199390177204f15.png) [@system](https://forum.knime.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 1:56am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/how-to-enter-a-zip-file-password-in-knime-software/91032/3 "2026-03-22T01:56:48Z")

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