Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WARC file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert WARC to another file type
To convert WARC archives to another format, you need Heritrix or other Web software.
Convert a file to WARC
To convert other file formats to the "Web Preservation Format" file type, you need software like Heritrix or a similar tool.
About WARC files
The .WARC (Web ARChive) format is the industry standard for preserving websites, famously used by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Unlike a simple HTML save, a WARC file bundles every request and response - including HTTP headers, DNS records, images, scripts, and stylesheets - into one massive, concatenated blob. This is the main downside: standard web browsers like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox cannot natively "play" or render a WARC file. Opening one usually results in a gibberish text display of raw binary data and server handshakes. To view them properly, you typically need to install complex local server environments or specialized replay software like ReplayWeb.page. For most users, this is overkill. If you need to verify the content of an archived page for legal, compliance, or research purposes, the best workflow is converting the .WARC to PDF (for a portable, unchangeable visual record) or extracting it to HTML/ZIP (to access the individual image and code assets).
Convert.Guru analyzes your WARC file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert WARC file to ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB, ACE, ARJ or LHA, you can use Heritrix or similar software from the "Web Archiving Container" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG or RAR files to WARC, try Heritrix or another comparable tool in the "Web Archiving Container" category.
The WARC Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our WARC converter.