BTSEARCH Converter

Extract text from BitTorrent search engines (BTSEARCH)


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

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

Convert BTSEARCH to another file type

To convert BTSEARCH search engines to another format, you need BitTorrent or other Settings software.

Convert a file to BTSEARCH

To convert other file formats to the "Search Engine File" file type, you need software like BitTorrent or a similar tool.


About BTSEARCH files

The .btsearch file is a configuration file used primarily to add custom search engine parameters into BitTorrent client software. It stores the query structure and URLs needed to search for torrents directly from the software's search bar. You can install it by dragging it into clients like BitTorrent or uTorrent. For more context on the protocol, see the BitTorrent Wikipedia page. The main disadvantage of the .btsearch format is its highly specialized nature. It is completely useless outside of a compatible torrent client. Users often download these files from third-party sites to add custom trackers, but without the client installed, the operating system does not know how to handle the file. Furthermore, standard web browsers cannot parse or execute the search parameters stored inside. Because of this limitation, users frequently need to convert or inspect these files to extract the underlying web URL. We recommend converting .btsearch to standard text formats like TXT or XML. Converting to text allows you to safely read the search URL without executing it, though it strips away the direct one-click install capability for the torrent client. This file format is difficult to open because it relies on the specific internal handling of the torrent software. Standard online converters almost always fail to process it because they are built for images or documents, not niche configuration files. Even if it is a proprietary format, our analysis detects the supported underlying text data, allowing you to read the search string safely.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert BTSEARCH file to INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV, PROPERTIES or RC, you can use BitTorrent or similar software from the "Search Engine Configuration" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to BTSEARCH, try BitTorrent or another comparable tool in the "Search Engine Configuration" category.



The BTSEARCH 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 BTSEARCH converter.