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WARC — Web Archive

A minimal WARC 1.0 web archive with a warcinfo record and an HTTP response record capturing a small HTML page — for testing WARC parsers and web-archive tooling.

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WARC/1.0
WARC-Type: warcinfo
WARC-Date: 2026-01-15T00:00:00Z
WARC-Record-ID: <urn:uuid:00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001>
Content-Type: application/warc-fields
Content-Length: 152

software: Novus Examples (generation/q8_extras.py)
format: WARC file version 1.0
description: A minimal sample web archive for testing WARC parsers.


WARC/1.0
WARC-Type: response
WARC-Target-URI: https://example.com/
WARC-Date: 2026-01-15T00:00:00Z
WARC-Record-ID: <urn:uuid:00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000002>
Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response
Content-Length: 257

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 177

<!doctype html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>Sample capture</title></head><body><h1>Hello from a WARC record</h1><p>This is an archived sample page.</p></body></html>

Specifications

Format
WARC 1.0
Records
warcinfo + response
Captured Uri
https://example.com/

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.

Generated by generation/q8_extras.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.