Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your IMPORT file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert IMPORT to another file type
To convert IMPORT metadata files to another format, you need Godot Engine or other Developer software.
Convert a file to IMPORT
To convert other file formats to the "Godot Import Metadata" file type, you need software like Godot Engine or a similar tool.
About IMPORT files
The .import file is a text-based configuration file generated automatically by the Godot Engine (an open-source game development platform, see Wikipedia). Whenever a developer adds a source asset like a PNG texture or a WAV audio clip to a Godot project folder, the engine creates a matching .import file. This file contains the precise parameters, flags, and metadata required to process the source asset for the target platform. The main disadvantage of the .import format is its strict coupling to the Godot engine ecosystem. It is completely proprietary to Godot's internal asset pipeline and useless as a standalone media file. Furthermore, these files clutter up version control systems and folder structures. They do not contain the actual asset data, only the import rules, meaning you cannot extract or convert a .import file back into a graphical or audio format. Because it uses a proprietary key-value text structure similar to INI files, developers often need to convert .import files to standard formats for external build scripts, custom asset pipelines, or data parsing. For web use and scripting, convert to JSON. For archiving and strict parsing, convert to XML. Drop your file here to view and convert it securely right in your browser.
Convert.Guru analyzes your IMPORT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert IMPORT file to PNG, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use Godot Engine or similar software from the "Asset Import Settings 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 IMPORT, try Godot Engine or another comparable tool in the "Asset Import Settings Storage" category.
The IMPORT 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 IMPORT converter.