.url
1 claimant
0 primary
1 secondary
secondary-only
SWH popularity
From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.
676.7K
total occurrences
405.5K
since 2019 (59.9%)
1970–2023
years active
Case variants in archive: .url (650.7K), .URL (26.0K), .Url (23) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to ini — every claim across all sources (including secondary ones) points to a single language.
Authoritative sources: △ Linguist · secondary ✗ Pygments · no claim ✗ Wikidata · no claim ✗ Wikipedia · no claim
Claimants (1)
Languages that list
.url among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.| Language | Source | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| ini | linguist | secondary |
Wikidata says… (5)
File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL
entities that claim
.url 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.
| Format | Class (Wikidata P31) | Suggested label | MIME | Notes | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| file shortcut Q1109779 handle in a user interface that allows the user to find a file or resource | file format | — | text/plain | wp-only | Use as new PL ↗ |
| Windows Shortcut Q29000599 file format | binary file; file format | — | application/x-ms-shortcut | wp-only | Use as new PL ↗ |
| Internet Explorer favorites Q28758111 bookmark file format | file format | — | — | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
Disambiguation rules (1)
Linguist heuristics that decide, by content, which language a
.url file actually is.| Rule | Predicts | Kind | Predicates (truncated) |
|---|---|---|---|
h/linguist/.url/0 | ini | predicates | [{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^\\[InternetShortcut\\](?:\\r?\\n|\\r)([^\\s\\[][^\\r\\n]*(?:\\r?\\n|\\r)){0,20}URL="]}] |
SWH-mined examples (0)
No archived examples for .url in our local mirror yet.