ProtobufDecoder vs protobuf-inspector

ProtobufDecoder

A Google Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) payload decoder/analyzer (by sandermvanvliet)

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protobuf-inspector

🕵️ Tool to reverse-engineer Protocol Buffers with unknown definition (by mildsunrise)

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ProtobufDecoder		protobuf-inspector
	Project
5	Mentions	1
66	Stars	886
-	Growth	-
6.6	Activity	-
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
C#	Language	Python
MIT License	License	ISC License

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ProtobufDecoder

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Reverse Engineering Protobuf Definitions from Compiled Binaries
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2024

Decoding protobuf (and message formats in general) can be such a pain and fun at the same time.
I’ve written ProtobufDecoder which takes a different approach: analyze the structure of the actual messages to help you figure out the protobuf structure of a message.
https://github.com/sandermvanvliet/ProtobufDecoder
Open source desktop applications list
13 projects | /r/csharp | 30 Dec 2021
Show HN: ProtobufDecoder, Inspect Protobuf Messages
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2021
Announcing: ProtobufDecoder, inspect and analyze Protobuf messages
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 7 Dec 2021

Get it while it’s fresh: https://github.com/sandermvanvliet/ProtobufDecoder/releases/tag/0.2.0

protobuf-inspector

Posts with mentions or reviews of protobuf-inspector. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-09.

Reverse Engineering Protobuf Definitions from Compiled Binaries
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2024

I have used this other tool to good effect to reverse engineer a file format based on Protobuf: https://github.com/mildsunrise/protobuf-inspector

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