I've been really interested to see what these .meta files contain. They're generated alongside replay files (.dem files) from Steam, so I'm really curious if there's a known way to view their contents.
Dota – way to read .meta files from Dota 2 replays
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Best Answer
Yes there is a know way to read their content using the clarity replay parser.
Especially this example :
https://github.com/skadistats/clarity-examples/tree/master/src/main/java/skadistats/clarity/examples/metadata
The file contains various information used by the game to display post game stats. Like graph data, item purchase time, ...