scriptbin is one part of an ecosystem of different sites that can be used to host scripts and audios. The reason for scriptbin to exist was to make a new site, custom-built for script hosting, when such scripts were deemed not acceptable at Pastebin. Luckily, Pastebin offered an export function.

Not only did this mean writers could import those export files and not have to start over or enter everything manually, they could also click Download all scripts and get a similar file. This is an important tradition to maintain for writers to retain control of their script.

But: although scriptbin's export format is slightly better (less lossy) than Pastebin's, it has remained undocumented. And it is optimized to be able to be read by people and published directly if necessary.

Both these things are now addressed on the new About scriptbin's APIs and export/download file formats page, which documents everything, and with the new "Structured export" format.