pyinstxtractor-ng 2026.7.3

PyInstaller Extractor Next Generation

pyinstxtractor-ng

pyinstxtractor-ng is a tool to extract the contents of a Pyinstaller generated executable file. Both Linux ELFs and Windows PE executables are supported.

This project is a fork of pyinstxtractor.

pyinstxtractor-ng uses the xdis library to unmarshal Python bytecode and as a result there is NO requirement to use the same Python version which was used to build the executable.

pyinstxtractor-ng also supports automatic decryption of encrypted pyinstaller executables.

Usage

Precompiled binaries for Linux and Windows are provided in releases. These are generated using PyInstaller itself, so you don't even need a Python installation to run pyinstxtractor-ng

PyInstaller Extractor NG

positional arguments:
  filename       Path to the file to extract

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -d, --one-dir  One directory mode, extracts the pyz to the same directory
  -i, --info      Display PyInstaller archive information without extracting files

Pass the exe filename as an argument or drag & drop the pyinstaller exe file over pyinstxtractor.ng icon on Windows.

$ ./pyinstxtractor-ng <filename>
X:\> pyinstxtractor-ng <filename>

The --one-dir mode extracts the pyz in the same directory as the executable. This is useful if you want to run the extracted files straight-away.

X:\> pyinstxtractor-ng --one-dir main.exe
X:\> cd main.exe_extracted
X:\main.exe_extracted\> python main.py

The --info or -i option prints metadata about the PyInstaller archive without writing any extracted files to disk. This is useful for quick inspection and debugging.

$ ./pyinstxtractor-ng --info <filename>
X:\> pyinstxtractor-ng -i <filename>

See Also

• pyinstxtractor-web: pyinstxtractor running in the web browser, powered by Go & GopherJS.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0