Webloc To Url API

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

Convert Mac .webloc website shortcuts into Windows .url Internet Shortcuts. Pass each file as { name, content, encoding }: an XML .webloc as text, or a binary-plist .webloc as base64 with encoding "base64". The URL key of the property list becomes URL= under [InternetShortcut], with CRLF line endings, and the output file keeps the source name with .url instead of .webloc (repeated names get " (2)"). Files that are empty, not a property list, or have no URL key are listed in skipped with the reason, and the rest still convert. Also returns a name,url CSV of the converted set. The URLs are copied as written and never opened; non-web schemes are kept and reported in warnings.

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Request body

application/json

files

array required

The .webloc files, in order, at most 5000. Each item is { name, content, encoding? }: the file name, its text (XML plist) or base64 bytes, and "base64" when content is base64.
dedupe

boolean optional

Keep only the first shortcut for each exact URL. Default false. Default false.

Example arguments

Verified

{
  "files": [
    {
      "name": "Docs.webloc",
      "content": "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<plist version=\"1.0\">\n<dict>\n\t<key>URL</key>\n\t<string>https://example.com/docs</string>\n</dict>\n</plist>\n"
    }
  ]
}

curl -X POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/webloc-to-url/execute \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "files": [
      {
        "name": "Docs.webloc",
        "content": "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<plist version=\"1.0\">\n<dict>\n\t<key>URL</key>\n\t<string>https://example.com/docs</string>\n</dict>\n</plist>\n"
      }
    ]
  }'

const response = await fetch('https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/webloc-to-url/execute', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' },
  body: JSON.stringify({"files":[{"name":"Docs.webloc","content":"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<plist version=\"1.0\">\n<dict>\n\t<key>URL</key>\n\t<string>https://example.com/docs</string>\n</dict>\n</plist>\n"}]}),
});
const data = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/webloc-to-url/execute",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={"files":[{"name":"Docs.webloc","content":"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<plist version=\"1.0\">\n<dict>\n\t<key>URL</key>\n\t<string>https://example.com/docs</string>\n</dict>\n</plist>\n"}]},
)
data = response.json()

$ch = curl_init('https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/webloc-to-url/execute');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Content-Type: application/json', 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => '{"files":[{"name":"Docs.webloc","content":"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<plist version=\"1.0\">\n<dict>\n\t<key>URL</key>\n\t<string>https://example.com/docs</string>\n</dict>\n</plist>\n"}]}',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

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Call webloc_to_url 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: webloc-to-url
MCP name: webloc_to_url
Category: Conversion
Machine-readable: openapi.json · markdown.md

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