access-parser 0.0.1

Access database (*.mdb, *.accdb) parser

AccessDB Parser

Microsoft Access (.mdb / .accdb) database files parser. access_parser parsing logic is fully written in python and works without any external binary dependencies.

Installing

git clone https://github.com/ClarotyICS/access_parser.git
cd access_parser
python3 setup.py install

Demo

Usage Example

from access_parser import AccessParser

# .mdb or .accdb file
db = AccessParser("/path/to/mdb/file.mdb")

# Print DB tables
print(db.catalog)

# Tables are stored as defaultdict(list) -- table[column][row_index]
table = db.parse_table("table_name")

# Pretty print all tables to a file
db.dump_database("/path/to/output/file.txt")

Known Issues

• OLE fields are currently not supported
• Only a subset of memo fields are parsed

This library was tested on a limited subset of database files. Due to the differences between database versions and the complexity of the parsing we expect to find more parsing edge-cases.

To help us resolve issues faster please provide as much data as you can when opening an issue - DB file if possible and full trace including log messages.

Thanks

• This library was made possible by the great work by mdb-tools. The logic in this library heavily relies on the excellent documentation they have https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools
• Huge thanks to Mashav Sapir for the help debugging, CRing and contributing to this project https://github.com/mashavs