Webarchive (Safari)

File Format
Name	Webarchive (Safari)
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving Webarchive (Safari)
Extension(s)	.webarchive
PRONOM	fmt/866

Webarchive is a format used by the Safari browser from Apple to store multiple files saved from a website into one file. It uses a format based on Property List/Binary.

The tool "plutil" on a Mac can be used to convert back and forth between binary plist and XML, "plutil -convert xml1 ExampleBinary.plist"

Software

• https://pypi.org/project/pywebarchive/

Sample files

• dexvert samples — archive/appleSafariWebarchive

Links

• Wikipedia article
• Webkit webarchive class