alexgaoth/awesome-reverse-engineered

Agents and tools like REA and Ghidra make reverse engineering faster than ever. Still, the app, API, device or file format you are about to open has often been done already, and the work sits in a repo nobody links to.

1. Search first. Use the website or the agent skill. Search by product, vendor or protocol.
2. Found it? Use it, fix it, and report breakage upstream. One maintained client beats ten private scripts.
3. Not there? Do the work, publish it as open source, then add it here so the next person starts where you stopped.

12,869 projects with 10.7M GitHub stars between them: 7,077 active, 1,953 slowing down, 2,491 dormant, 900 archived. Top languages: Python (3,298), C++ (1,861), C (1,697), JavaScript (842), TypeScript (736).

When a task needs to talk to something with no official API (a smart plug, a car, a chat app, a file format), your agent searches this index, ranks by stars, activity and license, reads the README, and picks the right tool.

npx skills add alexgaoth/awesome-reverse-engineered

/plugin install reverse-engineered --marketplace alexgaoth/awesome-reverse-engineered

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexgaoth/awesome-reverse-engineered/main/plugin/skills/find-reverse-engineered/scripts/re_index.py -o re_index.py
python3 re_index.py search tuya local          # ranked matches
python3 re_index.py info make-all/tuya-local   # entry + README excerpt
python3 re_index.py clone make-all/tuya-local  # shallow clone into vendor/

_{Real output of the skill on the current data.}

Filter 12,869 projects by category, language and health, sorted by stars or recent activity. Every search has a shareable link.

Open the search →

The most-starred projects with commits in the last 7 days.

Unofficial APIs break when the vendor changes their side, so check health before you depend on a project.

flowchart LR
  A[Research agents<br/>GitHub, HN, Reddit,<br/>awesome-lists] --> B[Scope filter<br/>interoperability only]
  B --> C[GitHub API check<br/>exists, stars, license]
  C --> D[(data/entries.json)]
  D --> E[README and<br/>category pages]
  D --> F[Search website]
  D --> G[Agent skill]
  H[Nightly refresh<br/>GitHub Action] -->|stars, archived,<br/>dead links| D

Raw data: data/entries.json. Removed repos: data/removed.json. Imported lists and searches: SOURCES.md.

This index lists interoperability, preservation and research projects: unofficial clients and SDKs, open drivers, local-control libraries, file-format parsers, protocol documentation, reimplementations and decompilations. Reverse engineering for interoperability is protected in many places (for example 17 U.S.C. §1201(f) and Article 6 of the EU Software Directive).

Left out on purpose: exploits and jailbreaks, security or certificate-pinning bypasses, decryption tools, cheats, DRM or paywall removal, CAPTCHA solvers, account bots and credential tools.

Using an unofficial client can break a service's terms of use. Use these projects with your own accounts, devices and data.

Know a project that belongs here? Open an issue with the repo link and one line on what it reverse engineers, or send a PR that adds it to data/entries.json. Wrong category, dead link, or out of scope? Open an issue too.

Curated by @alexgaoth with research agents. Every entry is checked against the GitHub API.

Add this badge to your README. On the website, each project has a badge button that copies a version linking to its own entry.

[![Listed in Awesome Reverse-Engineered](https://img.shields.io/badge/listed%20in-awesome--reverse--engineered-ffb000?style=flat-square&labelColor=0e0f0d)](https://github.com/alexgaoth/awesome-reverse-engineered)

Code (scripts, website, agent skill): MIT. The list and data: CC0 1.0. Each linked project has its own license.