mdbtools
Kaitai Struct
| mdbtools | Kaitai Struct | |
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| 2 | 44 | |
| 955 | 3,844 | |
| 1.0% | 1.2% | |
| 5.2 | 7.5 | |
| about 2 months ago | 28 days ago | |
| C | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GPL-3.0-or-later |
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mdbtools
- Parsing an Undocumented File Format
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Databases
shoutout to mdbtools for when I've actually had to do this shit
Kaitai Struct
- Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol
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Parsing an Undocumented File Format
- ImHex [2], which has a pattern language [3] which allows parsing, and it seems more powerful than what Kaitai offers. I stumbled upon some limitations with it but it was still useful.
[1]: https://kaitai.io/
- Kaitai Struct – a declarative language used to describe binary data structures
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HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans
Beautiful. Didn't know something like this exists. Reminds me of Katai[0]
[0]. https://kaitai.io/
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Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID
An EDID override like this would be helpful for macOS as well, where the monitors swapping around after standby is a real annoyance [0] [1]
EDID rewrites are 99% of the time blocked by the monitor firmware: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Decoding-monitor-EDID-on-macO...
By the way, one helpful tool that helped me navigate the EDID dump was Kaitai Struct [2]. It shows a side by side view with the hex view and the EDID structure, and it highlights the hex values in real time as you navigate the structure. Unfortunately [3] it doesn't support the extension blocks that the author needs.
[0] https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Weird-monitor-bugs
[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/external-displays-swapp...
[2] https://kaitai.io/
[3] https://github.com/kaitai-io/edid.ksy
- Kaitai Struct: new way to develop parsers for binary structures
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Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
Kaitai Struct might be a good choice for that: https://kaitai.io/
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Ingesting, parsing and making sense of device log data
For binary log format, there's the excellent Kaitai Struct frameworks, that make it very easy to generate parsers from a declarative schema
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What is this tool? More info in comments
kaitai
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Visual Programming with Elixir: Learning to Write Binary Parsers (2019)
https://kaitai.io/
Worth a look if you are writing binary parsers.
What are some alternatives?
Excelerator - This is an Excel Addin for Windows that reads and writes data to Snowflake
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
msaccess-vcs-addin - Synchronize your Access Forms, Macros, Modules, Queries, Reports, and more with a version control system.
csvkit - A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.
FreeSql - 🦄 .NET aot orm, C# orm, VB.NET orm, Mysql orm, Postgresql orm, SqlServer orm, Oracle orm, Sqlite orm, Firebird orm, 达梦 orm, 人大金仓 orm, 神通 orm, 翰高 orm, 南大通用 orm, 虚谷 orm, 国产 orm, Clickhouse orm, QuestDB orm, MsAccess orm.
Camelot - A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs
tablib - Python Module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML, &c.
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
PyYAML
rizin - UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.
Scopt - command line options parsing for Scala
Fast Parse - Writing Fast Parsers Fast in Scala