SITES Converter

Extract text from Site data files (SITES)


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

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

Convert SITES to another file type

To convert SITES site files to another format, you need Java or other Settings software.

Convert a file to SITES

To convert other file formats to the "Exception Site List" file type, you need software like Java or a similar tool.


About SITES files

A .sites file serves two entirely different purposes. Most commonly, it is a Java Exception Site List used by the Java Runtime Environment to store trusted URLs that bypass security blocks. Alternatively, it is an iWeb Website Design Project, an obsolete package format created by Apple. The Java version is a simple text list, but the Apple iWeb version presents severe disadvantages. It is a proprietary, closed macOS package format. Because Apple abandoned iWeb in 2011, these files are effectively dead. They trap your website design, images, and text inside an inaccessible structure that modern web browsers and Windows computers cannot open natively. Converting a .sites file depends on its type. Java lists easily convert to .TXT or .CSV for bulk editing. For iWeb projects, the best target formats are .HTML, .JPG, and .PNG. Extracting these files means losing the original iWeb template structure, but you will recover your raw media and text. This file format is difficult to open or convert because an iWeb .sites file is actually a hidden folder rather than a standard file. Standard online converters fail to process it. Often only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert SITES file to HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP, JSPX, PY, RB or PL, you can use Java or similar software from the "Java Config & iWeb Project" 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 SITES, try Java or another comparable tool in the "Java Config & iWeb Project" category.



The SITES 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 SITES converter.