https://github.com/boks-oks/metrobox
A mitmproxy script that redirects some of Windows 8.1's Live Tiles to modern APIs.
https://github.com/boks-oks/metrobox
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A mitmproxy script that redirects some of Windows 8.1's Live Tiles to modern APIs.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/boks-oks/metrobox
- Owner: boks-oks
- Created: 2025-06-15T02:41:59.000Z (10 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-08-23T23:07:30.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-08-24T10:26:38.970Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: live-tile, livetiles, metro, reverse-engineering, revival, windows-8, windows8
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 117 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
A mitmproxy script that makes some of Windows 8's Live Tiles work again.
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| Not all tiles are working yet, view the list below for deatils |
How does it work?
This diagram should help.
```mermaid
graph TD;
Windows-->mitmproxy;
mitmproxy-->RSS;
RSS-->metrobox;
metrobox-->Tile-Data;
Tile-Data-->Windows;
```
In other words, Windows contacts mitmproxy first, mitmproxy edits the returned data which it gets from metrobox parsing RSS feeds.
# What is/isn't working.
> Did you know I started a blog? Check it out [here](https://boks-oks.github.io/).
#### Tiles
| Tile | Working? |
| ------------- | ------------- |
| News | Complete |
| Food | Complete |
| Finance | Not true to the original. |
| Travel | Complete |
| Games | Complete |
| Health | No |
| Maps | Not in this pre-release. |
| Weather | XML served, tile isn't working. |
#### Apps
> [!NOTE]
> This states my progress on apps. None are working in the pre-release.
| App | Working? |
| ------------- | ------------- |
| News | No |
| Food | No |
| Finance | No |
| Travel | No |
| Games | No |
| Health | No |
| Maps | Works for a bit, then stops. |
| Weather | Shows served placeholder data, no images. |