What is a .WEBLOC file?
WEBLOC is the macOS equivalent of a saved web link, dragged from a browser. Opened on macOS.
- Did you know
- WEBLOC is how macOS saves a web link as a file you can keep on your desktop.
- A WEBLOC is an Apple property-list file whose single url key stores the web address, opened by the Finder in your default browser.
- It is the macOS counterpart to the Windows .url shortcut, created simply by dragging a page’s address out of a browser.
- What Analyser reads
- Decode shortcut files: Windows shortcuts (LNK) - target path, arguments, working directory, icon, hotkey, window state, and target timestamp - plus internet shortcuts (URL) and macOS web shortcuts (WEBLOC), surfacing the URL or path they point to.
- Depth of analysis
- .WEBLOC is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .WEBLOC file
- Drag a .WEBLOC file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.
- Related formats
- .LNK · .URL. See all supported file types.