Url To Webloc API

POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/url-to-webloc/execute

Convert Windows .url Internet Shortcuts into Mac .webloc website location files. Pass each file as { name, content } with its text. The URL= line of the [InternetShortcut] section (case-insensitive, CRLF and byte order mark tolerated) becomes the URL string of an XML property list, which Finder opens; the output keeps the source name with .webloc instead of .url (repeated names get " (2)"). A file without that section or URL line, and any binary .lnk shortcut, is listed in skipped with the reason and the rest still convert. Writes XML plists, not binary ones. The URLs are copied as written and never opened.

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Request body

application/json

files

array required

The .url files, in order, at most 5000. Each item is { name, content }: the file name (for example "Docs.url") and the file's text.

Example arguments

Verified

{
  "files": [
    {
      "name": "Docs.url",
      "content": "[InternetShortcut]\r\nURL=https://example.com/docs\r\n"
    }
  ]
}

curl -X POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/url-to-webloc/execute \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "files": [
      {
        "name": "Docs.url",
        "content": "[InternetShortcut]\r\nURL=https://example.com/docs\r\n"
      }
    ]
  }'

const response = await fetch('https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/url-to-webloc/execute', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' },
  body: JSON.stringify({"files":[{"name":"Docs.url","content":"[InternetShortcut]\r\nURL=https://example.com/docs\r\n"}]}),
});
const data = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/url-to-webloc/execute",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={"files":[{"name":"Docs.url","content":"[InternetShortcut]\r\nURL=https://example.com/docs\r\n"}]},
)
data = response.json()

$ch = curl_init('https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/url-to-webloc/execute');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Content-Type: application/json', 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => '{"files":[{"name":"Docs.url","content":"[InternetShortcut]\r\nURL=https://example.com/docs\r\n"}]}',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

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Call url_to_webloc from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client. Same arguments, same output.

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MCP reference

Rate limit: 60 a minute, per IP
Auth: API key
REST id: url-to-webloc
MCP name: url_to_webloc
Category: Conversion
Machine-readable: openapi.json · markdown.md

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