TXT File Search for Plain Text Documents
Find plain text files on the web: transcripts, lists, logs, readme files and older documents. DocJax searches for TXT and RTF files and runs the search on the engine you pick.
File type
Your search
(filetype:txt OR filetype:rtf)
What You Find in Text Files
Plain text is the oldest document format on the web, so text search turns up material other searches miss: early internet documents, transcripts, word lists, configuration files, song lyrics, data dumps and robots.txt files.
RTF, or rich text format, adds basic formatting like bold and fonts, and older word processors saved to it often. DocJax includes it with TXT.
How to Search for Text Files
- Type a topic or a phrase you expect in the file.
- Turn on exact phrase for lines from a transcript or a list.
- Use the address field under More filters for words in the file name, like
readme. - Pick one website to see the text files a single site has published.
For data tables, CSV search works better. For full ebooks in plain text, Project Gutenberg is on the ebook search engine.
Questions
How do I search for TXT files on Google?
Add filetype:txt to your search, for example readme filetype:txt. Google then lists plain text files only.
Are TXT files safe to open?
Yes. Plain text files can't run code, so opening one in a text editor is safe.
What is the difference between TXT and RTF?
TXT is plain characters with no formatting. RTF stores basic formatting such as bold, italics and fonts, and opens in most word processors.