baseMEOW

baseMEOW is an encoder/decoder that can store binary as a string of characters that spell out "meow" in some way, similar to base64.

Installation

# requires Python 3.6+
pip install baseMEOW

Usage

Encoding

$ echo 'hello' | baseMEOW
MeEeeOoWmEeooWwmmEeowwwWw

$ echo 'im a kitty' | baseMEOW
MeEeOwWMeeEEEoOOwwWWWmMmeOoOwMEooWMeeOWwMMMmM

$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=30 | baseMEOW
30+0 records in
30+0 records out
30 bytes transferred in 0.000061 secs (491520 bytes/sec)
MMmeEOOowMEOWMMmEOowMEeEeEOWwwmeOOOooWmMmMMMeeeowwWmMMeEEOOWWWmmEOoOowwmmeoOWMmMmeEooWMEEeoWwmeOoOoOWWwWWmeEEoOOwWmmeoOwW

Decoding

$ echo 'MeEeeOoWmEeooWwmmEeowwwWw' | baseMEOW --decode
hello
$ echo 'MeEeOwWMeeEEEoOOwwWWWmMmeOoOwMEooWMeeOWwMMMmM' | baseMEOW --decode
im a kitty
$
# non UTF-8 data is printed as hex
$ echo 'MMmeEOOowMEOWMMmEOowMEeEeEOWwwmeOOOooWmMmMMMeeeowwWmMMeEEOOWWWmmEOoOowwmmeoOWMmMmeEooWMEEeoWwmeOoOoOWWwWWmeEEoOOwWmmeoOwW' | baseMEOW --decode
2ecb7fc9edeabe3d085a810f2618cc11eaccfbeae47cb6f6ab28786193e6

Benchmarks

See benchmark.py