Sweeping View

Sweeping view is a library that can parse replay files produced by official Minesweeper clones.

Currently supported:

Formats:

• RMV (Viennasweeper)
• AVF (Minesweeper Arbiter, Freesweeper)

Tested Python versions:

• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10

Is this a good idea? Shouldn't the formats be secret?

They aren't anymore anyway. There are open-source tools available to convert the implemented formats to rawvf, an entirely text-based format.

What this library doesn't do is make any attempt to verify checksums. Those remain as the primary obstacle to generating fake replays.

Similar projects

Rawvf

Rawvf is a plain-text minesweeper replay format. A collection of command line tools to convert various formats to it can be found here: https://github.com/thefinerminer/minesweeper-rawvf

Rawvf offers far better support (more formats/old versions of formats), but the tools aren't usable as libraries.

State of completion and stability

This library is still very much in development, and parts of the public API may change completely - this is because while both existing parsers work for now, not much care has been taken to make them consistent.

Example use

Arbiter

code

from sweeping_view.avf import AVFReplay

avf = AVFReplay.from_file("HI-SCORE Beg_5.41_3BV=28_3BVs=5.17_Tommy.avf")

print(avf.name)
print(avf.properties)
print(avf.mines)

output

'Tommy'
{'level': 'beginner', 'questionmarks': False}
[(4, 1), (5, 2), (8, 2), (2, 3), (6, 3), (4, 5), (8, 5), (6, 6), (8, 6), (4, 7)]

Viennasweeper

code

from sweeping_view.rmv import RMVReplay

rmv = RMVReplay.from_file("fd60_beg_4153_NF_1600544477.rmv")

print(rmv.player_data)
print(rmv.properties)
print(rmv.mines)

output

{'name': 'tkolar'}
{'questionmarks': False, 'nonflagging': True, 'mode': 'normal', 'level': 'beginner'}
[(1, 3), (2, 3), (4, 2), (4, 3), (4, 4), (4, 5), (4, 6), (5, 4), (6, 6), (7, 6)]