{
 "id": "internet-shortcut",
 "name": "Internet Shortcut",
 "category": "other",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "url"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "application/internet-shortcut",
   "application/x-url",
   "text/url",
   "text/x-url",
   "wwwserver/redirection",
   "text/plain",
   "application/x-mswinurl"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "x-fmt/454"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q28758114"
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Microsoft Windows URL",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "max_offset": 35,
      "pattern": "5b496e7465726e657453686f72746375745d"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "unknown",
 "summary": "The Microsoft Internet Shortcut format (URL file format) is built upon a plain text file and adopts an \"INI\" or configuration file style 'section + key-pair' format, to provide machine-readable structure to describe a method of accessing a web page or website. The format enables the encapsulation of the information needed to connect to a website in a file-based object, which can be distributed or saved elsewhere on the user's hard-disk, for example, in enabling bookmarking of web-sites as a user's favorites. The Microsoft Internet Shortcut format included features such as hotkey instructions, allowing users to make use of a combination of keys on a keyboard to launch a website. The association of the '*.url' file-format extension with a web-browser application enabled double-clicking of the file object to launch a website.",
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Internet_Shortcut",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "PRONOM x-fmt/454",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/x-fmt/454",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q28758114",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28758114",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "tools": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}