Extract text from BR files
To convert your BR file to another format, you need Brotli or other Compressed software.
To convert other file formats to the "Web Compression Archive" file type, you need software like Brotli or a similar tool.
A .BR file is primarily a Brotli Compressed Data file, utilized by Google and modern web browsers to compress text-based assets (like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) more efficiently than standard gzip. This format is also heavily used by Unity for WebGL builds to minimize game download sizes. A distinct and separate use case exists in industrial engineering, where .BR files serve as Automation Project Binary Modules for B&R Industrial Automation systems.
A common problem for users is that .BR files are not self-extracting archives like ZIP. A developer might download a style.css.br file and find it completely unreadable without specific decompression tools or command-line utilities. Furthermore, Unity developers often struggle with these files when servers are not configured to serve the correct Content-Encoding header, leaving the browser to download the raw compressed binary instead of inflating it. For B&R users, the file is a proprietary lock-in; it cannot be edited or viewed without the expensive and complex B&R Automation Studio environment.
To make these files usable, the primary solution is decompression. Convert .BR files back to their original formats - typically JS, CSS, HTML, or WASM - to edit code or view content. For standardizing archives, converting .BR to ZIP or TAR allows for easier distribution on non-web platforms.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted BRARCHIVE, B5R, BRD, PNG, HTML, SLDPRT, APK, ASPX, SDOCX, JAM and N files.
If you want to convert BR file to N, HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP, JSPX, PY or RB, you can use Brotli or similar software from the "Web Data Compression" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO or HTM files to BR, try Brotli or another comparable tool in the "Web Data Compression" category.
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 BR converter.