.vbs

1 claimant 1 primary 0 secondary unambiguous primary

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.

196.0K
total occurrences
62.3K
since 2019 (31.8%)
1970–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .vbs (192.9K), .VBS (2.9K), .Vbs (211), .vbS (6), .vBs (1), .VBs (1) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to VBScript; VBScript; VBScript as primary by 3 authoritative claims.

Authoritative sources: ✓ Linguist ✓ Pygments ✓ Wikidata · Q13743 ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (3)

Languages that list .vbs among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
VBScriptlinguistprimary
VBScriptpygmentsprimary
VBScriptwikidataprimary

Wikidata says… (2)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .vbs 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.
Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗
FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
VBScript file Q58007288
file format
file formatUse as new PL ↗
batch file Q479833
script file for Microsoft computer operating systems
file format; script fileapplication/x-batdeprecatedUse as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (1)

Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.
BULK - REPT-IEVC LIST.vbs · 16096 B · seen 134× in SWH
predicted: VBScript via unique-primary
swh:1:cnt:bc6bac4d2f0d398d2e7f9b7040afa0e5d9ea94ff;origin=https://github.com/SLC-MAXIS-Scripts/SLC-MAXIS-Scripts;anchor=swh:1:rev:5a67d945e4af3a8632436bfd33ff32c270f3743d;path=/Script Files/BULK/BULK - REPT-IEVC LIST.vbs
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