Meta String Editor
A simple editor for Unity IL2CPP global-metadata.dat files, allowing you to inspect and modify string literals.
Available as both a Go library/CLI and Python binding package, making it easy to cross platform and integrate with Python scripts.
Quick Start
Use CLI
You can download the pre-built executable in GitHub Release, or use the wrapped library distributed along with Python package.
pip install metastringedit
Usage
> ./metastringedit
Usage:
metastringedit <file_path> [flags]
Flags:
-d, --dump Dump all strings to JSON
-e, --edit stringArray Edit strings (format: nth=value, can input multiple pairs)
-h, --help help for metastringedit
-i, --info Show metadata file information (default)
-l, --list string List strings:
- [page:num] for pagination, e.g. 0:20
- [nth] for single string, e.g. 3
- [start-end] for range, e.g. 1-20
-o, --output string Output file path
-r, --regex string Search for strings using regex
-s, --search string Search for strings (case-insensitive substring)
As Library
See examples.
Development
Requirements:
- Python 3.9+
- Go 1.17+
Building
Go CLI
cd cli && go build .
Python wheel
uv build
Running Tests
Go
go test -v
Python
# Build shared library first. Here is Linux example
cd binding && go build -o metastringedit.so -buildmode=c-shared . && cd ..
uv sync --extra dev --no-install-project
pytest
Acknowledgments
https://github.com/Perfare/Il2CppDumper
https://github.com/JeremieCHN/MetaDataStringEditor
GitHub Copilot
License
MIT
1 maintainer
Metadata
1 maintainer
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