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Dev tools · January 23, 2016

Pbd – Protocol Buffers Disassembler

Pbd is a Python module to disassemble serialized protocol buffers descriptors (https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/). - rsc-dev/pbd

Pbd – Protocol Buffers Disassembler launched on January 23, 2016 with 36 votes, #1,953 of 4,522 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

In plain words

Pbd is a Python module that disassembles serialized protocol buffers descriptors, Google's method for serializing structured data. It is designed for developers working with protocol buffers who need to analyze or reverse-engineer serialized descriptor files. The tool provides a way to inspect the contents of compiled protocol buffer descriptors programmatically.

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