Picklock

A terminal client for PyMemoryEditor. Read, write and scan the memory of a running process from any shell, on Windows, Linux and macOS.

pip install picklock
picklock

A Picklock session: attaching to a process, scanning for a value, and writing to it

One dependency, pure Python, so it installs on a bare server as readily as on a desktop.

Documentation

Full documentation lives at picklock.readthedocs.io — the scan cycle, address expressions, pointer chains, scripting, platform permissions, and every command's arguments.

Quick startAttach to a process, find a value, change it.
ScanningThe first-scan/refine cycle, AOB and regex scans.
Addressesmodule+offset, dereferences, and #N scan rows.
Reading and writingValue types, typed reads and writes, hex views and watches.
PointersPointer scans, and the workflow that makes a path survive a restart.
ScriptingNon-interactive use, exit codes, JSON export.
Command referenceEvery command and flag, generated from the code.
PermissionsWhat each OS wants before it lets you attach.
TroubleshootingScans that find nothing, chains that stop working.

The same help is at the prompt: help lists the namespaces, typing a namespace lists its commands, and help <command> prints one command's arguments — generated from the parser that runs it, so the two cannot disagree.

Development

git clone https://github.com/JeanExtreme002/Picklock
cd Picklock
make install-dev
make pre-commit        # lint, type-check, tests

Every command is covered end-to-end against a real process — the test process itself, so the suite needs no privileges and no second program to launch.

🤝 Contributing

Pull requests, bug reports and feature ideas are very welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md for the development setup, test layout and the small set of platform-specific quirks to be aware of.

Related

Every read, write, scan and pointer walk is performed by PyMemoryEditor, the cross-platform memory library Picklock is built on. If you find Picklock useful, star that one too — it is what makes any of this work on three operating systems at once.

License

Released under the MIT License — free for personal and commercial use.

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Author/Maintainer: Jean Loui Bernard Silva de Jesus

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