GSITE Converter

Extract text from Google Sites shortcuts (GSITE)


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

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

Convert GSITE to another file type

To convert GSITE shortcuts to another format, you need Google Sites or other Web software.

Convert a file to GSITE

To convert other file formats to the "Cloud Shortcut" file type, you need software like Google Sites or a similar tool.


About GSITE files

A .GSITE file is a proprietary shortcut generated by Google Drive to link directly to a website built with Google Sites. It functions strictly as a pointer and does not contain any actual website data, such as HTML code, text content, or images. This is a major disadvantage for users attempting to back up or share their websites, as the file is completely useless without an active internet connection and an authenticated Google account with the correct access permissions. Because the file is typically less than 1KB and only holds an internal document ID, standard online converters fail to process it. They cannot bypass Google's security to fetch the remote website. If you want to export your website to standard target formats like PDF or HTML, you must open the link in a web browser and use native print or web scraping tools. This file format is difficult to open or convert externally because it is a closed, proprietary reference file rather than a standard data container.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert GSITE file to TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD, MARKDOWN, LOG or NFO, you can use Google Sites or similar software from the "Google Sites Webpage Shortcut" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to GSITE, try Google Sites or another comparable tool in the "Google Sites Webpage Shortcut" category.



The GSITE 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 GSITE converter.