.robot

1 claimant 1 primary 0 secondary unambiguous primary

SWH popularity

Distinct files in the full Software Heritage archive (2026-06-04 export), dated by first appearance, following Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz (MSR 2025). Case-aggregated. citation.

868.6K
total files
413.2K
first seen 2021–2025 (47.6%)
2020
median year (half its files since)

Case variants in archive: .robot (867.4K), .Robot (1.1K), .ROBOT (114), .rOBOt (4) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to Robot Framework as primary by 2 authoritative claims.

Authoritative sources: ✓ Linguist ✓ Pygments ✗ Wikidata · no claim ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (2)

Languages that list .robot among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
Robot Frameworklinguistprimary
Robot Frameworkpygmentsprimary

Wikidata says… (1)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .robot on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
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FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
Robot Framework file format Q130642658
file format
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SWH-mined examples (1)

Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive, grouped by predicted language and by how the prediction was made. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.
Robot Framework (1) — 1 via unique-primary
edit_prenuptial.robot · 16645 B · seen 25× in SWH
predicted: Robot Framework via unique-primary
swh:1:cnt:bf4142a9a304911d6c8532775d4de40f26c83941;origin=https://github.com/iDLEWINK/Disciples-Christian-Church-Digital-Archives;anchor=swh:1:rev:d787ab7b96771c1b28a60732c447bbfa4f13a833;path=/__robot__/edit_prenuptial.robot
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