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webarchiver: Create safari webarchives from the command line.

November 29th, 2008  |  Published in webarchiver  |  Comments

Webarchiver allows you to create Safari .webarchive files from the command line. Webarchives are a convenient way to store a webpage and its associated files (images, css, javascript, etc) in a single file. It is very simple to use:

./webarchiver -url http://www.google.com -output google.webarchive

Usage $

./webarchiver

webarchiver 0.2
Usage: webarchiver -url URL -output FILE
Example: webarchiver -url http://www.google.com -output google.webarchive
-url    http:// or path to local file
-output File to write webarchive to</code>

Do not forget the ‘http://’ if you want to archive a webpage. If no ‘http://’ is present then webarchiver attempts to archive a local file.

Download

The easiest way to install webarchiver is using MacPorts:

sudo port install webarchiver

webarchiver 0.3 binary

webarchiver source code (latest release)

Git Repository

Release notes

Version 0.3 : Changed URL and sorted out source for git.

Version 0.2 : John Winter fixed page loading issue.

Version 0.1 : Initial release.

Credits

  • Most of the credit for this goes to Keith Blount for his very useful KBWebArchiver class.
  • John Winter for testing and bug fixing. Thanks John.
  • Rob Griffiths for hosting a copy of the source when my blog was down.
  • Boey Maun Suang for creating a MacPort