WEBBOOKMARK Converter

Extract text from Safari web bookmarks (WEBBOOKMARK)


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

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

Convert WEBBOOKMARK to another file type

To convert WEBBOOKMARK bookmarks to another format, you need Apple Safari or other Web software.

Convert a file to WEBBOOKMARK

To convert other file formats to the "Safari Web Bookmark" file type, you need software like Apple Safari or a similar tool.


About WEBBOOKMARK files

A .webbookmark file stores a single saved webpage URL created by Apple Safari. It contains the URL, webpage title, and synchronization metadata. It is handled primarily by Apple Safari on macOS and iOS devices and uses the internal Apple Property List (plist) format to structure its data. The biggest disadvantage of a .webbookmark file is its proprietary nature. Unlike standard HTML bookmark exports, a standalone .webbookmark file is not natively readable by Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Windows operating systems. It effectively traps your saved links within the Apple ecosystem and makes sharing single bookmarks difficult. The best conversion target is HTML, which allows you to import the link directly into any modern web browser. Alternatively, you can convert it to TXT or CSV to extract the raw URL and page title for documentation purposes. Note that Apple-specific syncing metadata used by iCloud will be lost during conversion, but the core web link remains fully intact. Because .webbookmark files are serialized Property List files, opening them in standard text editors often yields garbled binary code or complex XML structures that are hard to read. Many standard online converters fail to parse this Apple-specific format correctly. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format like XML plist, viewing the text or extracting the target URL may still be possible.

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

Users also converted HTML files.


FAQ

If you want to convert WEBBOOKMARK file to HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP, JSPX, PY, RB or PL, you can use Apple Safari or similar software from the "Web Bookmark Storage" 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 WEBBOOKMARK, try Apple Safari or another comparable tool in the "Web Bookmark Storage" category.



The WEBBOOKMARK 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 WEBBOOKMARK converter.