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WARC — Multi-Record SAMPLE

Multi-record WARC 1.0 SAMPLE (warcinfo + responses + resource) for web-archive tooling.

Conversion testing
Preview, first 50 lineswarc
WARC/1.0
WARC-Type: warcinfo
WARC-Target-URI: urn:warc:novus-sample
WARC-Date: 2026-01-15T00:00:00Z
WARC-Record-ID: <urn:uuid:novus-wave-g-00254227>
Content-Length: 33
Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

software: Novus Examples Wave G


WARC/1.0
WARC-Type: response
WARC-Target-URI: https://sample.example/
WARC-Date: 2026-01-15T00:00:00Z
WARC-Record-ID: <urn:uuid:novus-wave-g-13701281>
Content-Length: 78
Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html

<html><body>SAMPLE</body></html>


WARC/1.0
WARC-Type: response
WARC-Target-URI: https://sample.example/about
WARC-Date: 2026-01-15T00:00:00Z
WARC-Record-ID: <urn:uuid:novus-wave-g-09425874>
Content-Length: 84
Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html

<html><body>About SAMPLE</body></html>


WARC/1.0
WARC-Type: resource
WARC-Target-URI: https://sample.example/style.css
WARC-Date: 2026-01-15T00:00:00Z
WARC-Record-ID: <urn:uuid:novus-wave-g-97379015>
Content-Length: 33
Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

body { font-family: system-ui; }
… 51 lines total: download for the full file.

Specifications

Records
4
Version
1.0
Wave
G

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Exercise WARC — Multi-Record SAMPLE in its warc workflow. Multi-record WARC 1.0 SAMPLE (warcinfo + responses + resource) for web-archive tooling.
Expected result
50 text lines, decoded as UTF-8; first nonempty line is 'WARC/1.0'. Declared feature checks: version=1.0.

What is a .warc file?

A WARC (Web ARChive) file stores one or more web resources (requests, responses, and metadata) concatenated as records with headers, in the standard format used by web crawlers and archives such as the Wayback Machine.

How to use this file

Use an example WARC to test WARC parsing, record extraction, and replay or conversion of archived web content.

How to use this file for testing

“WARC — Multi-Record SAMPLE” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.

Documented properties for this file: 4 records. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such, expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Archive fixtures are documented down to their member list (shown on this page) and are deliberately safe, no zip bombs, executables, or hidden payloads. Test extractors against nested, unicode, empty, and encrypted variants.

Related files

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