Extract text from Dashcode widget projects (WDGTPROJ)
To convert WDGTPROJ widget projects to another format, you need Apple Dashcode or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "Widget Project File" file type, you need software like Apple Dashcode or a similar tool.
The .WDGTPROJ file is a developer project file created by the discontinued Apple Dashcode software. It contains the source code, layout, and image assets used to build widgets for the old macOS Dashboard and early Safari web applications.
Today, this format presents major disadvantages. The macOS Dashboard was completely removed in macOS 10.15 (Catalina). Dashcode has not received updates in over a decade. Consequently, .WDGTPROJ files are obsolete, tie your data to dead software, and cannot be opened natively on modern Mac computers or any Windows machine.
To salvage the data, you must extract the contents to standard web formats like HTML, CSS, and JS, or compress the entire project into a ZIP file for archiving.
This file format is difficult to open or convert online because it is technically a macOS "package" - a folder that your Mac treats as a single file. Standard online converters fail because they expect a flat file rather than a directory structure. We can often inspect the internal structure and extract the underlying web assets without requiring legacy Apple hardware.
Convert.Guru analyzes your WDGTPROJ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert WDGTPROJ file to JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB, GO, RS or SWIFT, you can use Apple Dashcode or similar software from the "Dashboard Widget Development" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to WDGTPROJ, try Apple Dashcode or another comparable tool in the "Dashboard Widget Development" category.
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 WDGTPROJ converter.