diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index 4a860113c..70f7a7473 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ All definitions files include a header with the author and editors, so at some p
 * [nodeunit](https://github.com/caolan/nodeunit) (by [Jeff Goddard](https://github.com/jedigo))
 * [node_zeromq](https://github.com/JustinTulloss/zeromq.node) (by [Dave McKeown](https://github.com/davemckeown))
 * [node-sqlserver](https://github.com/WindowsAzure/node-sqlserver) (by [Boris Yankov](https://github.com/borisyankov))
+* [node-tar](https://github.com/npm/node-tar) (by [Maxime LUCE](https://github.com/SomaticIT))
 * [node-uuid](https://github.com/broofa/node-uuid) (by [Jeff May](https://github.com/jeffmay))
 * [notify.js](https://github.com/alexgibson/notify.js) (by [soundTricker](https://github.com/soundTricker))
 * [npm](https://github.com/npm/npm) (by [Maxime LUCE](https://github.com/SomaticIT))
diff --git a/tar/tar-tests.ts b/tar/tar-tests.ts
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@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/**
+* Test suite created by Maxime LUCE <https://github.com/SomaticIT>
+*
+* Created by using code samples from https://github.com/npm/node-tar.
+*/
+
+/// <reference path="../node/node.d.ts" />
+/// <reference path="tar.d.ts" />
+
+import tar = require("tar");
+import fs = require("fs");
+
+/**
+ * Quick Extract
+ */
+fs.createReadStream("path/to/file.tar").pipe(tar.Extract("path/to/extract"));
+
+/**
+ * Use with events
+ */
+var readStream = fs.createReadStream("/path/to/file.tar");
+var extract = tar.Extract("/path/to/target");
+
+readStream.pipe(extract);
+
+extract.on("entry", (entry: any) => {
+
+});
diff --git a/tar/tar.d.ts b/tar/tar.d.ts
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+++ b/tar/tar.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+// Type definitions for tar v1.0.1
+// Project: https://github.com/npm/node-tar
+// Definitions by: Maxime LUCE <https://github.com/SomaticIT>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
+
+/// <reference path="../node/node.d.ts" />
+
+declare module "tar" {
+    import stream = require("stream");
+
+    //#region Interfaces
+
+    export interface HeaderProperties {
+        path?: string;
+        mode?: number;
+        uid?: number;
+        gid?: number;
+        size?: number;
+        mtime?: number;
+        uname?: string;
+        gname?: string;
+        devmaj?: number;
+        devmin?: number;
+    }
+
+    export interface ExtractOptions {
+        type?: string;
+        Directory?: boolean;
+        path?: string;
+        strip?: number;
+    }
+
+    export interface ParseStream extends NodeJS.ReadWriteStream {
+        position: number;
+
+        _stream: stream.Stream;
+        _ended: boolean;
+
+        _streamEnd(): void;
+        _process(c: Buffer): void;
+        _startEntry(c: Buffer): void;
+    }
+
+    export interface PackStream extends NodeJS.ReadWriteStream {
+        writable: boolean;
+        readable: boolean;
+
+        _noProprietary: boolean;
+        _global: HeaderProperties;
+        _buffer: stream.Stream[];
+        _currentEntry: any;
+        _processing: boolean;
+        _pipeRoot: stream.Stream;
+        _needDrain: boolean;
+        _paused: boolean;
+
+        addGlobal(props: HeaderProperties): void;
+        add(stream: stream.Stream): boolean;
+        destroy(): void;
+
+        _process(): void;
+    }
+
+    export interface ExtractStream extends ParseStream {
+    }
+
+    //#endregion
+
+    //#region Enums
+
+    export var fields: {
+        path: number;
+        mode: number;
+        uid: number;
+        gid: number;
+        size: number;
+        mtime: number;
+        cksum: number;
+        type: number;
+        linkpath: number;
+        ustar: number;
+        ustarvar: number;
+        uname: number;
+        gname: number;
+        devmaj: number;
+        devmin: number;
+        prefix: number;
+        fill: number;
+    };
+
+    export var fieldSize: number[];
+    export var fieldOffs: number[];
+    export var fieldEnds: number[];
+
+    /**
+     * Different values of the 'type' field
+     * paths match the values of Stats.isX() functions, where appropriate
+     */
+    export var types: {
+        0: string;
+        "\0": string;
+        "": string;
+        1: string;
+        2: string;
+        3: string;
+        4: string;
+        5: string;
+        6: string;
+        7: string;
+        g: string;
+        x: string;
+        A: string;
+        D: string;
+        I: string;
+        K: string;
+        L: string;
+        M: string;
+        N: string;
+        S: string;
+        V: string;
+        X: string;
+        File: string;
+        OldFile: string;
+        Link: string;
+        SymbolicLick: string;
+        CharacterDevice: string;
+        BlockDevice: string;
+        Directory: string;
+        FIFO: string;
+        ContiguousFile: string;
+        GlobalExtendedHeader: string;
+        ExtendedHeader: string;
+        SolarisACL: string;
+        GNUDumpDir: string;
+        INode: string;
+        NextFileHasLonLinkPath: string;
+        NextFileHasLongPath: string;
+        ContinuationFile: string;
+        TapeVolumeHeader: string;
+        OldExtendedHeader: string;
+    };
+
+    /**
+     * Values for the mode field
+     */
+    export var modes: {
+        suid: number;
+        sgid: number;
+        svtx: number;
+        uread: number;
+        uwrite: number;
+        uexec: number;
+        gread: number;
+        gwrite: number;
+        gexec: number;
+        oread: number;
+        owrite: number;
+        oexec: number;
+    };
+
+    export var numeric: {
+        mode: boolean;
+        uid: boolean;
+        gid: boolean;
+        size: boolean;
+        mtime: boolean;
+        devmaj: boolean;
+        devmin: boolean;
+        cksum: boolean;
+        atime: boolean;
+        ctime: boolean;
+        dev: boolean;
+        ino: boolean;
+        nlink: boolean;
+    };
+
+    export var knownExtended: {
+        atime: boolean;
+        charset: boolean;
+        comment: boolean;
+        ctime: boolean;
+        gid: boolean;
+        gname: boolean;
+        linkpat: boolean;
+        mtime: boolean;
+        path: boolean;
+        realtime: boolean;
+        security: boolean;
+        size: boolean;
+        uid: boolean;
+        uname: boolean;
+    };
+
+    export var headerSize: number;
+    export var blockSize: number;
+
+    //#endregion
+
+    //#region Global Methods
+
+    export function Parse(): ParseStream;
+
+    export function Pack(props: HeaderProperties): PackStream;
+
+    export function Extract(path: string): ExtractStream;
+    export function Extract(opts: ExtractOptions): ExtractStream;
+
+    //#endregion
+}
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