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Don't reverse engineer it twice. 17,000+ open-source tools built by reverse engineering closed apps, APIs, devices, protocols, file formats, games and AI tools. Search site + agent skill + MCP server, refreshed nightly.

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极速安装
pip install awesome-reverse-engineered

Awesome Reverse-Engineered

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Don't reverse engineer it twice.

17,704 open-source tools that exist because someone reverse engineered a closed app, API, device, protocol, file format, game or AI product.

Search the index or give it to your agent: npx skills add alexgaoth/awesome-reverse-engineered

Awesome Projects Nightly refresh Stars License: MIT + CC0 data

Agent skill · Categories · Hot this week · Add a project

Trendshift: #17 Python repository of the day


Before you reverse engineer something

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.

Can agents do this work themselves? Interop-Bench tests it on generated protocols and file formats, and scores it by running the code.

What's inside

17,704 projects with 12.4M GitHub stars between them: 10,085 active, 2,489 slowing down, 3,494 dormant, 1,182 archived. Top languages: Python (4,019), C++ (2,668), C (2,526), JavaScript (1,056), C# (957).

Category Projects Top picks
AI Tools & LLM Clients 755 claw-code, system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools, system_prompts_leaks
Game Decompilations & Reimplementations 6,095 shadPS4, v86, RPCS3
Devices, IoT & Hardware 3,121 KOReader, LibrePods, OpenLogi
Unofficial Web/App API Clients 987 yt-dlp, youtube-dl, MediaCrawler
Messaging & Social Apps 310 WeChatMsg, ItChat, wechaty
Third-party Clients 208 spotify-tui, nuclear, SimpMusic
Chinese & Asian Platforms 773 lx-music-desktop, alist, RevokeMsgPatcher
Apple Ecosystem 347 fastlane, homebridge, OSX-KVM
Drivers & Low-level Hardware 442 MonitorControl, tinygrad, G-Helper
Automotive 536 openpilot, evcc, VESC firmware
Industrial & Building Automation 292 HslCommunication, plc4x, IoTClient
Firmware & Embedded 537 LEDE (Lean), OpenWrt, Tasmota
Network & Wire Protocols 430 Sunshine, moonlight-qt, Impacket
File Formats 444 FFmpeg, ImHex, SheetJS
Online Service Revivals 635 NoLongerEvil Thermostat, Legacy Update, DeskThing
Desktop Software Reimplementations 236 PhotoCraft, vaultwarden, Proton
Alternative Frontends 122 searxng, searx, Whoogle Search
Mobile Apps 113 revanced-manager, Metrolist, LibreTube
RE Tooling 1,172 rea, Ghidra, jadx
Collections & Awesome Lists 149 Corkami pics, awesome reverse-engineering (wtsxDev), android-security-awesome

Resurrected

129 products their makers killed, kept alive by open-source projects built through reverse engineering.

Product Killed by Year Revived by
Spotify Car Thing Spotify 2024 DeskThing
Amazon Dash Button Amazon 2019 node-dash-button
Nest Learning Thermostat (1st and 2nd gen) Google 2025 NoLongerEvil Thermostat
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) AOL 2017 Open OSCAR Server (Retro AIM Server)
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (DS and Wii online) Nintendo 2014 DWC Network Server Emulator
ICQ VK 2024 Open OSCAR Server (Retro AIM Server)
Pebble smartwatch Fitbit 2018 mobile-app
Neato robot vacuums Neato Robotics / Vorwerk 2025 fang

See all 129 on the Resurrected page →

Give your AI agent the whole index

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
Other ways to install

Claude Code plugin

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

MCP server (Claude Desktop, Cursor, any MCP client)

claude mcp add reverse-engineered -- uvx --from "git+https://github.com/alexgaoth/awesome-reverse-engineered#subdirectory=mcp" reverse-engineered-mcp
{"mcpServers": {"reverse-engineered": {"command": "uvx", "args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/alexgaoth/awesome-reverse-engineered#subdirectory=mcp", "reverse-engineered-mcp"]}}}

Any agent or shell (one file, Python standard library only)

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/

find-reverse-engineered

Real output of the skill on the current data.

Search it on the web

Filter 17,704 projects by category, language and health, sorted by stars or recent activity. Every search has a shareable link.

Search it on the web

Open the search →

Hot this week

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

Project What it does ★ Health Lang
rea Agentic tool to reverse engineer apps from behavior down to native binaries 439,603 🟢 TypeScript
yt-dlp A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader 205,907 🟢 Python
claw-code Clean-room Rust/Python rewrite of the Claude Code agent harness after the source leak 194,948 🟢 Rust
youtube-dl Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites 141,475 🟢 Python
Ghidra NSA's software reverse engineering framework with decompiler 98,497 🟢 Java
PhotoCraft Clean-room Photoshop-style photo editor written from scratch in pure Rust 77,614 🟢 Rust
system_prompts_leaks Archive of extracted system prompts from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and others, per vendor with history 70,971 🟢 Python
MediaCrawler Crawler for Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili and Weibo posts and comments 70,509 🟢 Python
vaultwarden Unofficial Bitwarden-compatible server written in Rust 70,366 🟢 Rust
gpt4free Reverse-engineered third-party provider APIs giving free access to GPT-4 and other LLMs 67,021 🟢 Python

Most starred

# Project What it does ★ Health Lang
1 rea Agentic tool to reverse engineer apps from behavior down to native binaries 439,603 🟢 TypeScript
2 yt-dlp A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader 205,907 🟢 Python
3 claw-code Clean-room Rust/Python rewrite of the Claude Code agent harness after the source leak 194,948 🟢 Rust
4 system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools Extracted system prompts and tool definitions for Cursor, Claude Code, Devin, Windsurf, Kiro, v0, Lovable and more 144,534 🟢
5 youtube-dl Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites 141,475 🟢 Python
6 Ghidra NSA's software reverse engineering framework with decompiler 98,497 🟢 Java
7 PhotoCraft Clean-room Photoshop-style photo editor written from scratch in pure Rust 77,614 🟢 Rust
8 system_prompts_leaks Archive of extracted system prompts from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and others, per vendor with history 70,971 🟢 Python
9 MediaCrawler Crawler for Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili and Weibo posts and comments 70,509 🟢 Python
10 vaultwarden Unofficial Bitwarden-compatible server written in Rust 70,366 🟢 Rust
11 gpt4free Reverse-engineered third-party provider APIs giving free access to GPT-4 and other LLMs 67,021 🟢 Python
12 FFmpeg Multimedia framework with many reverse-engineered proprietary codecs and containers 66,680 🟢 C
13 openpilot Open-source driver assistance system for 300+ car models 64,081 🟢 Python
14 CLIProxyAPI Wraps Codex, Claude Code, Antigravity, Grok and Gemini CLI OAuth backends as OpenAI/Claude-compatible APIs 57,850 🟢 Go
15 ImHex Hex editor for reverse engineers with a pattern language for binary formats 55,771 🟢 C++
16 lx-music-desktop LX Music: desktop music player aggregating Chinese music platform sources 55,144 🟢 TypeScript
17 CL4R1T4S Leaked system prompts and tool specs for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, Cursor, Lovable, Replit and others 51,813 🟢
18 jadx Dex to Java decompiler for Android apps 51,660 🟢 Java
19 Spotube Cross-platform Spotify client that streams audio from other sources 50,639 🟢 Kotlin
20 alist AList: file list and WebDAV server that mounts many cloud drives through their private APIs 50,424 🟢 Go
21 x64dbg Open source user-mode debugger for Windows 50,233 🟢 C++
22 RSSHub RSS feed generator that scrapes hundreds of sites and apps, many via unofficial APIs 46,849 🟢 TypeScript
23 mitmproxy Interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy 46,701 🟢 Python
24 sub2api Relay that exposes Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and Grok subscriptions as unified APIs 45,613 🟢 Go
25 Sunshine Self-hosted game stream host that implements the NVIDIA GameStream protocol for Moonlight clients 43,104 🟢 C++

Health

Meaning
🟢 Active: pushed in the last 12 months
🟡 Slowing: last push 1 to 3 years ago
🔴 Dormant: no push for over 3 years
🗄️ Archived by its owner
⚪ Unknown: not hosted on GitHub

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

How it's built

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

How we filter

3,420 searches across GitHub, Hacker News, Reddit and the web
351 existing lists and collections imported
202 repos dropped by the scope filter (exploits, jailbreaks, bypasses, DRM, cheats). Research agents also skip these before this step.
17,704 repos in the index, each checked against the GitHub API (exists, canonical URL, stars, license)
1,182 archived by their owners: kept and marked 🗄️
106 removed by the nightly check because the repo was deleted or made private (list)

Projects per category

Scope

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.

Contributing

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.

Is your project listed?

Listed in Awesome Reverse-Engineered

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

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Star history

Star history

License

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

If this saved you from reverse engineering something yourself, give it a star.

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最后同步快照:2026-11-08