ARKPROFILE Converter

Extract text from ARK player profiles (ARKPROFILE)


Drop or upload your .ARKPROFILE file
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How to extract text from your ARKPROFILE file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ARKPROFILE file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert ARKPROFILE to another file type

To convert ARKPROFILE profiles to another format, you need ARK: Survival Evolved or other Game software.

Convert a file to ARKPROFILE

To convert other file formats to the "Player Save File" file type, you need software like ARK: Survival Evolved or a similar tool.


About ARKPROFILE files

The .arkprofile file is a proprietary game save format used by ARK: Survival Evolved. It stores individual player character data, including stats, inventory items, level progression, and engrams. Created by Studio Wildcard, these files are loaded directly by the game server or local host client to render a specific player's avatar in the game world. Users often want to convert .arkprofile files to migrate characters between unofficial servers, diagnose corrupted game saves, or edit player stats. The main disadvantage of this format is its closed, binary structure. It relies on Unreal Engine 4 serialization, making it completely unreadable in standard software and difficult to manage outside the game ecosystem. Files can easily become corrupted if manually altered without proper parsing tools. The best target format for conversion is JSON. Converting the binary data into JSON allows server administrators to read and modify character attributes safely. However, repacking the modified JSON back into a valid .arkprofile requires specialized community-built scripts. Because this is a closed, proprietary format, standard online converters fail to process it. Usually, only the original game engine or highly specific third-party parser scripts can properly read or export the data. Our platform can inspect the raw file, extract embedded plain text strings like player names or server IDs, and show internal content to help you verify the file's integrity.

Convert.Guru analyzes your ARKPROFILE file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert ARKPROFILE file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use ARK: Survival Evolved or similar software from the "Game Player Profile Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to ARKPROFILE, try ARK: Survival Evolved or another comparable tool in the "Game Player Profile Storage" category.



The ARKPROFILE Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ARKPROFILE converter.