Using tree with tar.gz file without extracting contents

Question

I am wondering if it's possible to output the contents of a tar.gz file using tree without having to extract the contents of the file to a temp directory then using tree with that directory.

I know we can see the contents of the file without extracting using

tar -tf file.tar.gz

And I have simply tried piping this to the tree command

tar -tf file.tar.gz | tree

But this just outputs the tree of the current directory, not the contents of the file.

A few questions,

1. Is this even possible?
2. If it is possible, are there any limitations? Depth, number of files, etc?
3. Is there an alternative way to see a tree style output of the contents?

Answer 1

Custom tree script treeify.py created by Hakril would help to pretty print contents of tgz without extracting

[root@bastion ~]# wget https://bitbucket.org/Hakril/treeify/raw/8e732368f64d30ffc4033cbc890164fdf296d9f8/treeify.py
[root@bastion ~]# tar -tvf  neo4j-enterprise.tar.gz | python treeify.py 
.
├─ drwxrwxrwx root
│  ├─ root         0 2019-05-09 05:05 neo4j-enterprise
│  │  └─ local-package
│  │    └─ 
│  └─ root         0 2019-05-15 02:01 neo4j-enterprise
│    └─ 
└─ -rwxr-xr-x root
  ├─ root         0 2019-05-09 05:05 neo4j-enterprise
  │  ├─ local-package
  │  │  └─ .sentinel
  │  └─ .sentinel
  ├─ root     10156 2019-05-09 05:05 neo4j-enterprise
  │  └─ docker-entrypoint.sh
  └─ root      1560 2019-05-14 21:36 neo4j-enterprise
    └─ Dockerfile
[root@bastion ~]# 

Ref : https://superuser.com/questions/1086501/list-contents-of-tarball-in-tree-format