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#!/usr/bin/python
# source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/497861
# Command-line tool to decompress mozLz4 files used for example by Firefox to store various kinds of session backup information.
# Works in both Python 2.7.15 and 3.6.7, as of version 2.1.6 of the LZ4 Python bindings at pypi.org/project/lz4.
# To use in another script, simply cut and paste the import statement and the mozlz4_to_text() function (lines 8 to 17).
import lz4.block # pip install lz4 --user
def mozlz4_to_text(filepath):
# Given the path to a "mozlz4", "jsonlz4", "baklz4" etc. file,
# return the uncompressed text.
bytestream = open(filepath, "rb")
bytestream.read(8) # skip past the b"mozLz40\0" header
valid_bytes = bytestream.read()
text = lz4.block.decompress(valid_bytes)
return text
def main(args):
# Given command-line arguments of an input filepath for a ".mozlz4" file
# and optionally an output filepath, write the decompressed text to the
# output filepath.
# Default output filepath is the input filepath minus the last three characters
# (e.g. "foo.jsonlz4" becomes "foo.json")
filepath_in = args[0]
if len(args) < 2:
filepath_out = filepath_in[:-3]
else:
filepath_out = args[1]
text = mozlz4_to_text(filepath_in)
with open(filepath_out, "wb") as outfile:
outfile.write(text)
print("Wrote decompressed text to {}".format(filepath_out))
if __name__ == "__main__":
import sys
args = sys.argv[1:]
if args and not args[0] in ("--help", "-h"):
main(args)
else:
print("Usage: mozlz4.py <mozlz4 file to read> <location to write>")
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