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.
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.
How to use this file for testing
“WARC — Web Archive” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Editor 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: WARC 1.0. 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.
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