MozLz4a compression/decompression utility

mozlz4a.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Decompressor/compressor for files in Mozilla's "mozLz4" format. Firefox uses this file format to
# compress e. g. bookmark backups (*.jsonlz4).
#
# This file format is in fact just plain LZ4 data with a custom header (magic number [8 bytes] and
# uncompressed file size [4 bytes, little endian]).
#
# This Python 3 script requires the LZ4 bindings for Python, see: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lz4
#
#
# Copyright (c) 2015, Tilman Blumenbach
# All rights reserved.
#
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# provided that the following conditions are met:
#
# 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions
#    and the following disclaimer.
# 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of
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#    with the distribution.
#
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import lz4.block
import sys

from argparse import ArgumentParser


class MozLz4aError(Exception):
    pass


class InvalidHeader(MozLz4aError):
    def __init__(self, msg):
        self.msg = msg

    def __str__(self):
        return self.msg


def decompress(file_obj):
    if file_obj.read(8) != b"mozLz40\0":
        raise InvalidHeader("Invalid magic number")

    return lz4.block.decompress(file_obj.read())

def compress(file_obj):
    compressed = lz4.block.compress(file_obj.read())
    return b"mozLz40\0" + compressed


if __name__ == "__main__":
    argparser = ArgumentParser(description="MozLz4a compression/decompression utility")
    argparser.add_argument(
            "-d", "--decompress", "--uncompress",
            action="store_true",
            help="Decompress the input file instead of compressing it."
        )
    argparser.add_argument(
            "in_file",
            help="Path to input file."
        )
    argparser.add_argument(
            "out_file",
            help="Path to output file."
        )

    parsed_args = argparser.parse_args()


    try:
        in_file = open(parsed_args.in_file, "rb")
    except IOError as e:
        print("Could not open input file `%s' for reading: %s" % (parsed_args.in_file, e), file=sys.stderr)
        sys.exit(2)
    
    try:
        out_file = open(parsed_args.out_file, "wb")
    except IOError as e:
        print("Could not open output file `%s' for writing: %s" % (parsed_args.out_file, e), file=sys.stderr)
        sys.exit(3)

    try:
        if parsed_args.decompress:
            data = decompress(in_file)
        else:
            data = compress(in_file)
    except Exception as e:
        print("Could not compress/decompress file `%s': %s" % (parsed_args.in_file, e), file=sys.stderr)
        sys.exit(4)

    try:
        out_file.write(data)
    except IOError as e:
        print("Could not write to output file `%s': %s" % (parsed_args.out_file, e), file=sys.stderr)
        sys.exit(5)
    finally:
        out_file.close()

If you are trying to extract your search engines, it's very hard, even after decompressing there is a ton of junk in the file (images). I found a web service here. But it can not modify the engines. It looks like it's the most hostile format possible for an open-source software.