vpk 0.5

Library for reading/extracting files from VPK

VPK is Valve’s file format for storing game assets. This module is able to read the index and individual files.

Install

You can grab the latest release from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/vpk or via pip

pip install vpk

Example usage

The VPK instance is iterable in the standard ways and produces paths to files

import vpk

pak1 = vpk.VPK("/d/Steam/steamapps/common/dota 2 beta/dota/pak01_dir.vpk")

for filepath in pak1:
    print filepath

-------------------------------------------------
sound/half_sec_qd.wav
sound/items/guardian_greaves.wav
sound/items/urn_of_shadows.wav
sound/items/rune_bounty.wav
sound/items/refresher.wav
sound/items/item_mael_lightning_04.wav
sound/items/greevil_whistle.wav
...

Reading a specifc file is done by passing the file path to get_file() method, which returns a VPKFile instance, which acts as a regular file instance. Writting is not possible.

pakfile = pak1.get_file("scripts/emoticons.txt")
print pakfile.read().decode('utf-16le')

-------------------------------------------------
"emoticons"
{
    // An ID of zero is invalid

    "1"
    {
        "image_name" "wink.png"
        "ms_per_frame" "100"
...

Or if you need to extract a file.

pakfile.save("./emoticons.txt")