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joric edited this page Jun 18, 2026 · 108 revisions

Welcome to the CUE4Parse-Python wiki!

  • Complete replacement for CUE4Parse.CLI in Python, fully scriptable, cross-platform and doesn't need building.
  • Piggybacks off the native DLLs of the newest flagship product (CUE4Parse), doesn't implement low-level stuff.

Installation

Use pip install cue4parse to install. Run cue4parse for CLI. First run downloads DLLs to %LOCALAPPDATA%/cue4parse/libs.

Development

I didn't like the idea of installing libraries on pip install because it requires packing libraries with every wheel (there is no post-install hook), that's about 20-50 megs per each version. So it downloads and installs libraries on first run (or skips that if libraries are already there). You can update current version by deleting the libraries.

You can install it locally with pip install -e . --force in the repository root.

If you fork it and make your own PyPi project. It uploads automatically on toml version change, using trusted publishing in the project settings.

Use from cue4parse import * for scripting, you will have all the headers and classes used in CLI (cue4parse executable).

CLI supposed to be extendable with import cue4parse.cli as cli, working on it.

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