archive Command

The archive command provides utilities for working with Unity Archives (AssetBundles and web platform .data files).

Sub-Commands

Sub-Command	Description
`list`	List contents of an archive
`extract`	Extract contents of an archive

Lists the SerializedFiles contained within an archive.

UnityDataTool archive list <archive-path>

UnityDataTool archive list scenes.bundle

Extracts the contents of an archive to disk. This is similar to Unity's WebExtract tool.

UnityDataTool archive extract <archive-path> [options]

Option	Description	Default
`<archive-path>`	Path to the archive file	(required)
`-o, --output-path <path>`	Output directory	`archive`

UnityDataTool archive extract scenes.bundle -o contents

Output files:

contents/BuildPlayer-SampleScene.sharedAssets
contents/BuildPlayer-SampleScene
contents/BuildPlayer-Scene2.sharedAssets
contents/BuildPlayer-Scene2

Note: The extracted files are binary SerializedFiles, not text. Use the dump command to convert them to readable text format.

Command	Output	Use Case
`archive extract`	Binary SerializedFiles, .resS anything else inside the archive content	When you need all the raw files inside an archive
`dump`	text	When you want to inspect object content

The dump command can directly process archives without extracting first.