Extract text from Fiddler session archives (SAZ)
To convert SAZ session archives to another format, you need Fiddler or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "Debugging Session Archive" file type, you need software like Fiddler or a similar tool.
A .saz file is a Fiddler Session Archive created by the Telerik Fiddler web debugging proxy. Developers and IT professionals use these files to record, inspect, and share HTTP and HTTPS web traffic sessions for debugging network issues and analyzing API calls.
The primary software used to open and analyze these files is Fiddler Classic or Fiddler Everywhere by Progress Software. While extremely powerful for developers, the .saz format is proprietary to the Fiddler ecosystem. Sharing these files with clients, non-technical stakeholders, or support teams is a major challenge because it requires the recipient to download and install specialized desktop software. Mobile devices and default web browsers cannot natively open .saz files, and if you simply need to review a single network error or API response, installing a heavy web debugging tool is overkill.
To bypass these limitations, users often convert .saz files to standard ZIP archives to manually extract the raw TXT or XML request and response logs. Exporting the traffic data to the more universal HAR (HTTP Archive) format is also highly recommended, as it allows the data to be viewed natively in standard browser developer tools like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
Standard online converters usually fail to process .saz files because the format relies on a highly specific internal folder structure mapping individual requests to responses. However, you can drag and drop your file onto convert.guru to identify the format, inspect the file's contents, and extract the underlying data. Because a .saz file is internally just a standard ZIP container, our analysis can often expose the embedded text formats, making viewing and extraction possible without specialized software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SAZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted HAR, ZIP, EX5, TXT, BTW, TMP, IWA, PAZ, PSARC and JMX files.
If you want to convert SAZ file to HAR, JMX, HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP, JSPX or PY, you can use Fiddler or similar software from the "Web Traffic Session Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO or HTM files to SAZ, try Fiddler or another comparable tool in the "Web Traffic Session Archive" category.
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