# webarchiver を Homebrew, MacPorts でインストール

webarchiver のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

```sh
sudo av install brew:webarchiver
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install webarchiver
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install webarchiver
```

  証拠: MacPorts ports tree: www/webarchiver/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:webarchiver
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 0.13
- **ソース概要:** Allows you to create Safari .webarchive files
- **ホームページ:** <https://github.com/newzealandpaul/webarchiver>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/newzealandpaul/webarchiver>
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- webarchiver (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 0.13
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

Webarchiver is a small macOS command-line utility for creating Safari `.webarchive` files. Its niche is narrow but clear: it exposes Safari/WebKit's single-file web archive format to shell scripts.

### プロジェクトの歴史

The public GitHub repository was created in November 2008, and the author's GitHub profile notes that the project was featured on the GitHub blog in December 2008. The README presents it as a simple Objective-C command-line tool that saves a URL and its associated page resources into a Safari webarchive file.

The project has stayed small and specialized rather than becoming a broad archiving framework. Later discussion of command-line Safari webarchives points back to it as prior art, while also noting that its Objective-C implementation uses older WebKit classes such as WebView and WebArchive.

### 採用の歴史

Adoption appears to be niche and Mac-specific: the repository has modest stars and forks, but it has persisted in package managers because Safari webarchives remain a recognizable local archival format. Its value is mostly for people who want scriptable capture into a format Safari can open.

### 使われ方

The documented use is direct CLI capture, for example providing a source URL and an output `.webarchive` filename. This fits one-off page saving, shell loops over URLs, and personal archiving workflows where a Safari-compatible bundle is preferable to a directory of downloaded assets.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

Webarchiver is package-nerd interesting because it packages a tiny bridge into an Apple-specific file format. It is not a general crawler like wget or a preservation system like WARC tooling; it is a small command that makes Safari's single-file archive format reachable from Homebrew-era automation.

### タイムライン

- 2008-11: The GitHub repository was created.
- 2008-12: The author's GitHub profile says the project was featured on the GitHub blog.
- 2024: A newer Safari webarchive CLI write-up cited newzealandpaul/webarchiver as prior art and contrasted it with newer WKWebView APIs.

### Related projects

- Related tools include Safari's own Save As Web Archive feature, newer WKWebView-based scripts for creating webarchives, and broader web-archiving tools such as wget, SingleFile, and WARC-oriented crawlers.

### ソース

- <https://alexwlchan.net/2024/creating-a-safari-webarchive/>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/newzealandpaul/webarchiver>
- <https://github.com/newzealandpaul>
- <https://github.com/newzealandpaul/webarchiver>


## セキュリティノート

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger リスク:** blue / 中
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- MacPorts - webarchiver: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: www/webarchiver/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/webarchiver.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/webarchiver.yml)


## ソース

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
