RecoverPy
The facts below are what the maker publishes about RecoverPy, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From RecoverPy's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | GPL-3.0 licensed · Linux · Python 3.9+ |
The facts
Each one read from RecoverPy's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
What it does
- Inspect and extract
- Users can inspect matching disk blocks, navigate adjacent blocks, and save useful content.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The README gives uv and pip installation commands, and PyPI lists version 2.3.0 source and wheel distributions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository identifies its license as GPL-3.0.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Limitations
- RecoverPy does not interpret filesystem structures, restore filenames, reconstruct files automatically, or infer file boundaries.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Memory use
- The scan is streaming and memory-bounded; RecoverPy does not load the full partition into memory.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Operating systems
- Linuxchecked 19 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- RecoverPy searches for and helps recover deleted or overwritten file data from a terminal.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Read-only scanning
- The selected partition is opened in read-only mode and scanned sequentially in fixed-size chunks.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery conditions
- Results may be partial or fragmented, and recovery is impossible if the relevant disk blocks have been overwritten.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery method
- It searches byte patterns in raw partition data and records each match’s absolute device offset.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery sources
- raw partitions,disk images,diskschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Requirements
- The project lists Linux and Python 3.9 or later as requirements, and says raw block-device access typically requires sudo.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Safety guidance
- The README advises avoiding writes to the target partition and unmounting it when possible during recovery.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Search
- It searches a partition or disk image for a string by scanning raw device data.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project asks users to open an issue for bugs or improvement ideas and welcomes pull requests.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- The repository is published by PabloLec, whose GitHub profile identifies him as Pablo Lecolinet and lists France.checked 12 Oct 2026
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