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A list of generic tools for parsing binary data structures, such as file formats, network protocols or bitstreams

11 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2017-05-17 · latest 2025-10-24

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  1. Kaitai is one of many different tools that do this, there is a list of them here: https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing Personally I like GNU Poke.
    comment by pabs3 · 2025-10-24 · in Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language
  2. Here's a list: https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing
    comment by dloss · 2025-10-07 · in OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework
  3. Great list! Will incorporate some of those into my list of tools for binary parsing: https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing
    comment by dloss · 2025-10-04 · in Binary Formats Gallery
  4. Other tools for parsing and analyzing binary data are listed here: https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing
    comment by dloss · 2024-11-07 · in Visualizing binary files with ImHex's DSL, the "pattern language"
  5. …* binary-parsing - a collection of links to similar such tools : https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing * unblob - https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob * ImHex - https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex * GNU Poke - https://www.gn
    comment by turtledragonfly · 2024-07-25 · in Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis
  6. …* binary-parsing - a collection of links to similar such tools : https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing * unblob - https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob * ImHex, which you mention
    comment by turtledragonfly · 2024-02-14 · in Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol
  7. …* binary-parsing - a collection of links to similar such tools : https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing * unblob - https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob ** previous HN thread, for the above: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
    comment by turtledragonfly · 2023-03-02 · in GNU poke: The extensible editor for structured binary data
  8. …you need most times to create those yourself). Here is a sort of "curated list" of related tools: https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing The most complete/populated I know of is Kaitai: http://kaitai.io/ http://formats.kaitai.io/ that you…
    comment by jaclaz · 2022-09-05 · in Ask HN: What software do you use to examine binary files?
  9. Nice! Some other tools and parsers: https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing
    comment by dloss · 2021-12-23 · in Fq: Jq for Binary Formats