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Re:WARC'in the Crawler by sergiomattei on Thursday December 21, 2023 @11:59PM (#38731103)
I wish Apple would’ve open sourced the .webarchive format.

Nothing beats the user experience: Cmd-S in Safari and select “Web Archive”. It’s downloaded in permanent copy, indexed by Spotlight and accessible on all your devices.

I use it for collecting recipes around the web. However, I’m a bit concerned about data longevity. I’ve tried other more open formats (loved Singlefile) but none have the UX and support that this has. It’s so simple (as it should be).

Re:WARC'in the Crawler by wizzwizz4 on Friday December 22, 2023 @07:49AM (#38733613)
> Nothing beats the user experience: Cmd-S in Safari and select “Web Archive”.

Most browsers support MHTML: IE5's format, which is based on the .eml format. I think Firefox and Safari are the only major browsers that don't.

There's also the Mozilla Archive Format, which never really got popular for some reason: https://www.amadzone.org/mozilla-archive-format/ .

> I wish Apple would’ve open sourced the .webarchive format.

I mean… it's not like it's a secret. It's just very Apple-specific: binary plist and some other stuff.