Inspect and extract files from MSI installers directly in your browser

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Hey everyone!I'm excited to share a small web app I built that allows you to view and extract the contents of Windows MSI installers directly in your browser. It's essentially a web-based "lessmsi" powered by Pyodide.You can try it out at: https://pymsi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/msi_viewer.htmlMy motivation for building this was from part of my day job -- I often get Windows MSI installers and need to extract files while preserving the relative directory structure and filenames, as they would appear after a full installation. The existing tools I found were good but limited in which platforms they support: lessmsi works great on Windows, while msitools works for Linux/macOS. Neither is a trul

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Website: pymsi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/msi_viewer.html