it is truly bizarre how hard it is to find the answer to a simple question

i have a wallet.dat for bitcoin

i want to get the seed out of it

i know the password

nope, can't find a single answer on any search engine, there seems to be no RPC API for reading it, only writing it

#asknostr anyone know how you actually just see your seed, idgaf if it's hex or base58 or fucking semaphore flag symbols

all the answers i find ask for fucking BIP39 and that was not the question, though it actually, you know, kinda should be the default, but it really looks like it still is not

how does that work? 

 I’d answer but i think @laanwj  might have a better explanation 

 https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover 

 So... Did I help? Or was I no better than the Google?