unblob vs miniz

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unblob		miniz
	Project
16	Mentions	4
2,054	Stars	2,045
2.5%	Growth	-
9.5	Activity	6.0
about 10 hours ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Python	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

unblob

Posts with mentions or reviews of unblob. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-14.

Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024
How are zlib, gzip and zip related?
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2023

If you are interested in implementation details, how to unpack/decompress them, check out these Python implementations:
- https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob/blob/main/unblob/handle...
- https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob/blob/main/unblob/handle...
- https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob/blob/main/unblob/handle...
GNU poke: The extensible editor for structured binary data
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2023
unblob: Extract files from any kind of container formats
1 project | /r/blueteamsec | 28 Jan 2023
FLiP Stack Weekly for 21 Jan 2023
19 projects | dev.to | 23 Jan 2023

Extract all the things https://unblob.org/
Show HN: Unblob – extraction suite for 30+ file formats
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 18 Jan 2023

1 project | /r/hackernews | 18 Jan 2023

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 18 Jan 2023

10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2023

and the initial work they already merged: https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob/pull/475
Show HN: Unblob – accurate, fast, and easy-to-use extraction suite
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Nov 2022

miniz

Posts with mentions or reviews of miniz. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-27.

How are zlib, gzip and zip related?
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2023

FYI there is an effort to create a new zlib compatible library that is much faster by Richard Geldreich:
https://github.com/richgel999/miniz
miniz
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2021
Zip – How not to design a file format
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jul 2021
Qt 6 Zip Files
1 project | /r/QtFramework | 16 May 2021

In Qt5, I've used miniz (single c file, non-qt) with QtConcurrent::run and QtPromise. Works good to extract in background

What are some alternatives?

When comparing unblob and miniz you can also consider the following projects:

binwalk - Firmware Analysis Tool

pwa2uwp - Distribute a Progressive Web App on the Microsoft Store

EMBA - EMBA - The firmware security analyzer

dtrx - Do The Right Extraction

append-zip - append a file into an existing zip file, overwriting the existing file of the same name if needed

python-btrfs - Python Btrfs module

binspector - A binary format analysis tool

awk-raycaster - Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique

ddb-extraction - Extract the samples of a DDB Vocaloid file.

kaitai_struct_visualizer - Kaitai Struct: visualizer and hex viewer tool

hyperscan - High-performance regular expression matching library

Docker-OSX - Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.