Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MAGNET file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert MAGNET to another file type
To convert MAGNET Magnet links to another format, you need BitTorrent or other Web software.
Convert a file to MAGNET
To convert other file formats to the "Peer-to-Peer Download Link" file type, you need software like BitTorrent or a similar tool.
About MAGNET files
The .magnet file is a plain text document or browser shortcut that stores a Magnet URI. It is primarily used on the BitTorrent network to initiate peer-to-peer file downloads. These files are typically opened with torrent clients like qBittorrent, uTorrent, or BitTorrent. The major disadvantage of a .magnet file is that it contains absolutely no media or document data. It consists only of a cryptographic hash, known as a BitTorrent Info Hash (BTIH), and optional tracker URLs. It requires active peers on the Distributed Hash Table (DHT) to resolve the metadata before actual downloading can begin. Users frequently want to convert a .magnet file into an MP4 or ISO file, but this is impossible because the source file is just a text pointer. The only realistic conversion targets are TXT to extract the raw URI, or using a specialized caching service to generate a standard TORRENT file. Standard online converters fail to process this format because they look for media payloads instead of reading the text string. Drag and drop your .magnet file into convert.guru to see what it is and convert it if supported. We can inspect the file, extract the plain text link, and allow you to copy the URI directly into your preferred torrent software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your MAGNET file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted TORRENT, PDF, !BT and RESUME files.
FAQ
If you want to convert MAGNET file to , you can use BitTorrent or similar software from the "Peer-to-Peer File Downloading" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to MAGNET, try BitTorrent or another comparable tool in the "Peer-to-Peer File Downloading" category.
The MAGNET 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 MAGNET converter.