Preserve the rendered page
Capture the document after dynamic content has loaded or the page has been expanded and explored.
Open-source Chrome extension
Capture the page you see. Keep it in a preservation standard.
WARCreate packages a rendered webpage and its resources into a Web ARChive file—giving researchers, archivists, and curious web users a practical way to preserve what is in the browser.
- WARC 1.0Preservation format
- Local firstDownload by default
- MITOpen-source license
WEB ARCHIVEcapture.warcPage · resources · metadata
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Preservation from the browser
A lightweight path from live web to durable archive.
Traditional crawlers cannot always reach the page state a person can see. WARCreate works from the browser so you can interact with a page first, then preserve the resulting view.
Package supporting resources
Bring page markup, stylesheets, scripts, images, links, and HTTP metadata together in one archive.
Keep the WARC you create
Download the generated WARC locally by default and decide where, when, and how it should be stored.
How it works
Three steps from browsing to archiving.
WARCreate stays out of the way until you are ready to preserve the current page.
Read the documentation- 1
Prepare the page
Navigate, sign in if needed, reveal dynamic content, and arrange the page state you want to preserve.
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Generate the archive
Open WARCreate and start the capture. The extension collects the page and available supporting resources.
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Save and replay
Download the resulting
.warcfile and open it later with WARC-compatible replay software.
What is a WARC?
A standard container for the evidence of the web.
The Web ARChive format stores web payloads alongside the request and response information that gives them context. It is widely used by web archives and preservation tools.
WARCreate makes that format accessible from an ordinary browser session—especially useful when content is interactive, personalized, or difficult for a crawler to reach.
Learn about WARCReplay your archive
A WARC is meant to be opened again.
Use replay software to browse the archived page and inspect the resources preserved with it.
Built from research
Web preservation work with roots in JCDL 2012.
Original publication
“WARCreate — Create Wayback-Consumable WARC Files from Any Webpage”
Mat Kelly and Michele C. Weigle · Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries · 2012
Local by default
Your archive can contain sensitive page data.
WARCreate downloads generated WARCs locally unless you explicitly configure an upload destination. Treat archive files like the pages they preserve and share them only with services and people you trust.
Read the privacy policyShape what comes next
WARCreate is open source and evolving.
Review the code, report a capture problem, or help move browser-based web preservation forward.