Warctools

Command line tools and libraries for handling and manipulating WARC files (and HTTP contents)
Homepage:	https://pypi.python.org/pypi/warctools/
Source Code:	https://github.com/internetarchive/warctools/
License:	MIT License
Platforms:	Cross-platform
Language:	Python
Input Formats:	Template:Format, Template:Format
Output Formats:	Template:Format

Description

This is the most current and well-maintained Python codebase for working with WARC files. It provides a number of command-line tools for common WARC/ARC operations, and can also act as a library to create or work with WARC files directly from Python.

Pull requests and releases are currently managed by Thomas Figg, who can be contacted via Twitter.

Older Python WARC Implementations

This codebase was initially funded by IIPC and developed by Hanzo Archives. This lead to the hanzo-warc-tools package and source code.

There is also a separate warc package that was created by the Internet Archive (see source code), but is no longer in use.

Both of these projects are defunct and are now superseded by the internetarchive/warctools project.

Development Activity

Releases

2025-08-18 22:15:09

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/8960735/5.0.1 5.0.1]

by mistydemeo

2025-05-30 17:17:16

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/8960735/5.0.0 5.0.0]

by mistydemeo

2016-09-01 22:39:45

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/8960735/4.10.0 4.10.0]

by nlevitt

2012-11-29 13:31:13

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/8960735/4.15-rc1 4.15-rc1]

by lekash

2012-09-14 15:18:43

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/8960735/build_success-2012-09-14T16-25-56.483325901 build_success-2012-09-14T16-25-56.483325901]

by SteveJones

Development

2025-08-18 22:15:09

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/dda34c5d3dc20aec0a01776480a3820ab1cc9de2 release: 5.0.1]

by mistydemeo https://github.com/mistydemeo

2025-07-10 17:09:15

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/36d7e8fcff1e143289cd43c8eee597c6b1fc914e fix: typo in regex string]

by mistydemeo https://github.com/mistydemeo

2025-05-30 18:01:33

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/21db132fd3e4b4042cd011d9dc3fb30276a5a0b6 config: migrate to pyproject.toml]

by mistydemeo https://github.com/mistydemeo

2025-05-30 17:20:41

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/4c17416597117dd50205d3273fc3342a0c511353 gitignore: add dist]

by mistydemeo https://github.com/mistydemeo

2025-05-30 17:17:16

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/df88bcd7ef880c64a729e57e554c65566459b711 release: 5.0.0]

by mistydemeo https://github.com/mistydemeo