Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WEBARCHIVE file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert WEBARCHIVE to another file type
To convert your WEBARCHIVE file to another format, you need Apple Safari or other Web software.
Convert a file to WEBARCHIVE
To convert other file formats to the "Safari Web Archive" file type, you need software like Apple Safari or a similar tool.
About WEBARCHIVE files
A .webarchive file is a web archive format created by Apple Safari to save full webpages - including HTML code, CSS styles, and embedded images - into a single container. While convenient for Mac users saving pages for offline reading, this format poses significant interoperability challenges. Because it is a proprietary Apple format based on the binary property list (plist) structure, .webarchive files cannot be natively opened by Windows, Linux, or Android devices, nor are they supported by non-Apple browsers like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. This lock-in makes sharing saved webpages difficult, as recipients on other platforms often see an error or a blank screen. To overcome these barriers, users should convert .webarchive files to PDF for reliable document sharing and archiving, as PDF preserves the visual layout across all systems. For those needing to recover the source code or extract images, converting to standard HTML or a folder structure is the recommended workflow.
Convert.Guru analyzes your WEBARCHIVE file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert WEBARCHIVE file to PDF, HTML, JPG, MP4, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP or JSPX, you can use Apple Safari or similar software from the "Offline Webpage Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO or HTM files to WEBARCHIVE, try Apple Safari or another comparable tool in the "Offline Webpage Storage" category.
The WEBARCHIVE 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 WEBARCHIVE converter.