diff --git a/types/snappy/index.d.ts b/types/snappy/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for snappy 6.0
+// Project: https://github.com/kesla/node-snappy
+// Definitions by: Francis Gulotta <https://github.com/reconbot>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+/// <reference types="node"/>
+
+export interface SnappyDecompressOpts {
+    asBuffer: boolean;
+}
+
+export type bufferCallback = (err: Error | null, data: Buffer) => void;
+export type bufferOrStringCallback = (err: Error | null, data: Buffer|string) => void;
+export type booleanCallback = (err: Error | null, data: boolean) => void;
+
+export function compress(buffer: Buffer|string, callback: bufferCallback): void;
+export function compressSync(buffer: Buffer|string): Buffer;
+
+export function uncompress(buffer: Buffer, callback: bufferCallback): void;
+export function uncompress(buffer: Buffer, options: SnappyDecompressOpts, callback: bufferOrStringCallback): void;
+export function uncompressSync(buffer: Buffer): Buffer;
+export function uncompressSync(buffer: Buffer, options: SnappyDecompressOpts): Buffer|string;
+
+export function isValidCompressed(buffer: Buffer, callback: booleanCallback): void;
+export function isValidCompressedSync(buffer: Buffer): boolean;
diff --git a/types/snappy/snappy-tests.ts b/types/snappy/snappy-tests.ts
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+import * as snappy from 'snappy';
+
+snappy.compress('beep boop', (err, compressed) => {
+  if (err) {
+    throw err;
+  }
+  console.log(compressed.slice(0, 1));
+});
+
+const data = snappy.compressSync('beep boop');
+const otherData = snappy.compressSync(Buffer.from('beep boop'));
+snappy.uncompress(data, (err, data) => {
+  if (err) {
+    throw err;
+  }
+  console.log(data.toString('UTF8'));
+});
+snappy.uncompress(otherData, { asBuffer: false }, (err, original) => {
+  if (err) {
+    throw err;
+  }
+  console.log('the original String', original);
+});
+
+snappy.uncompressSync(data);
+snappy.uncompressSync(data, { asBuffer: false });
+snappy.isValidCompressed(data, (err, valid) => {
+  if (err) {
+    throw err;
+  }
+  console.log(valid);
+});
+if (snappy.isValidCompressedSync(data)) {
+  console.log('valid!');
+}
diff --git a/types/snappy/tsconfig.json b/types/snappy/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es5"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "snappy-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/snappy/tslint.json b/types/snappy/tslint.json
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+++ b/types/snappy/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }