AccessDB Parser (Pure Python)

Microsoft Access (.mdb / .accdb) database files parser. The parsing logic is fully written in python and works without any external binary dependencies.

Installing

Use pip: pip install git+https://github.com/McSash/access_parser_c

Or install manually:

git clone https://github.com/McSash/access_parser_c.git
cd access_parser_c
python3 setup.py install

Demo

Usage Example

from access_parser_c import AccessParser

# .mdb or .accdb file
db = AccessParser("/path/to/mdb/file.mdb")

# Print DB tables
print(db.catalog)

# Tables are stored as defaultdict(list) -- table[column][row_index]
table = db.parse_table("table_name")

# Pretty print all tables
db.print_database()

Another Usage Example

from access_parser import AccessParser
from azure.storage.blob import ContainerClient

# Download access file from azure blob storage
BlobContainerClient = ContainerClient.from_connection_string("<StorageConnectionString>", container_name="<ContainerName>")
access_object = BlobContainerClient.download_blob("<PathToFile>").readall()

# Bytes object of .mdb or .accdb file
db = AccessParser(access_object)

# Print DB tables
print(db.catalog)

# Tables are stored as defaultdict(list) -- table[column][row_index]
table = db.parse_table("table_name")

# Pretty print all tables
db.print_database()

Known Issues

• OLE fields are currently not supported
• Only a subset of memo fields are parsed

This library was tested on a limited subset of database files. Due to the differences between database versions and the complexity of the parsing we expect to find more parsing edge-cases.

To help us resolve issues faster please provide as much data as you can when opening an issue - DB file if possible and full trace including log messages.

Thanks

• This fork was made possible by the great work by claroty: https://github.com/claroty/access_parser