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 Webrecorder or other Web software.
Convert a file to WARC
To convert other file formats to the "Web Archive Format" file type, you need software like Webrecorder or a similar tool.
About WARC files
The .WARC (Web ARChive) file format is the international standard (ISO 28500:2017) for digital web preservation. It stores a complete sequence of HTTP request and response headers, along with the actual web payloads like HTML pages, images, and scripts, inside a single concatenated file. Organizations such as the International Internet Preservation Consortium and archiving projects like ArchiveTeam rely on it to capture and store internet history. You can learn more about its technical specifications on Wikipedia. Despite its power in preserving comprehensive web data, the .WARC format is notoriously difficult for average users to manage. These files are typically massive, often exceeding tens of gigabytes, making them extremely slow to process and transfer. They are absolutely not natively supported by standard web browsers like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. Instead, you must install and configure specialized replay tools like Webrecorder or run Python scripts just to view the captured pages as they originally appeared. Extracting a single image or text file from a massive .WARC container is highly impractical without command-line knowledge and dedicated indexing files. To make the stored data accessible and usable outside of archival environments, conversion or extraction is usually necessary. For offline reading, it is best to extract the contents into a standard ZIP archive containing static HTML, CSS, and JS files. If you only need a specific document from the captured session, extracting the target page directly to PDF or pulling the raw TXT data is the most pragmatic approach. Just drag and drop your .WARC file here to analyze and extract its contents securely right in your browser - free, online, and without installing complex playback software.
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 Webrecorder 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 Webrecorder 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.