Yet Another PBO Library

Yapbol is yet another pbo library to unpack and/or modify PBO files used by the game Arma 3.

Installing

pip install yapbol

Usage

Read the contents of a file in the PBO

from yapbol import PBOFile

pbo = PBOFile.read_file('filepath.pbo')

# Get metadata.hpp file, that's encoded in utf-8, from the PBO
file = pbo['metadata.hpp']
print('File contents: ', file.data.decode('utf-8'))

Print the contents of a PBO file

from yapbol import PBOFile

pbo = PBOFile.read_file('filepath.pbo')

for file in pbo:
    print('File name: ', file.filename)

Modify and save the PBO

from yapbol import PBOFile

pbo = PBOFile.read_file('filepath.pbo')

# TODO: Modify the file here

pbo.save_file('filepath.repack.pbo')