IFICTION Converter

Extract text from Interactive fiction metadata files (IFICTION)


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

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

Convert IFICTION to another file type

To convert IFICTION Metadata files to another format, you need Babel Tools or other Data software.

Convert a file to IFICTION

To convert other file formats to the "XML Metadata Record" file type, you need software like Babel Tools or a similar tool.


About IFICTION files

The .ifiction file is an XML-based metadata record used primarily by the Interactive Fiction (IF) community. It follows the Treaty of Babel standard to store critical bibliographic data such as the title, author, release number, serial number, and cover art links for text adventure games. While highly structured, its strict XML nature presents distinct disadvantages for average users. Because it is a specialized metadata format, casual users cannot easily read the data. Standard web browsers and basic text editors will simply display raw XML tags and code, making the actual information hard to parse visually. You need a dedicated Interactive Fiction manager or interpreter to properly read and utilize the bibliographic data. Users often need to convert .ifiction to TXT, JSON, or CSV to parse the metadata for modern web databases, library catalogs, or just to read the game details without the annoying tag clutter. Standard online converters often fail to process it because they do not recognize the obscure extension. If our analysis detects the underlying XML structure, viewing or converting the core data is still highly possible.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert IFICTION file to , you can use Babel Tools or similar software from the "Interactive Fiction Metadata Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to IFICTION, try Babel Tools or another comparable tool in the "Interactive Fiction Metadata Storage" category.



The IFICTION 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 IFICTION converter.