# Feature request: Support for Web ARChive

**URL:** <https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/feature-request-support-for-web-archive/47776>\
**Category:** DEVONthink\
**Created:** [May 29, 2019, 11:44am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/feature-request-support-for-web-archive/47776 "2019-05-29T11:44:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![chrillek](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/chrillek/32/29340_2.png) [@chrillek](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/chrillek)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 8:57am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/feature-request-support-for-web-archive/47776/18 "2021-08-11T08:57:19Z")

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> [@wally](#):
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> So if a site is using dynamic content delivery, could that explain why it would “break”?

Simple example: If the site uses JavaScript to produce its pages (like Apple’s developer documentation does). The webarchive will contain the JavaScript code, but _not_ the content that is generated by it. Obviously, because that depends on the code being _executed_ which it will only be when the page is displayed by a browser (or the integrated WebView in DT).

So the JavaScript code remains the same, e.g. it does something like `load item 12345 from server xyz`. Now, item 12345 might contain “Hi there” today. But tomorrow, someone changes that to “Go away”, and than that’ll be what you see.

I tried to summarize the Pros and Cons of the different HTML download options in a post here

> [@What to (not) expect when saving HTML documents in DEVONthink](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/what-to-not-expect-when-saving-html-documents-in-devonthink/65580):
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> This is a TL;DR attempt at collecting different aspects concerning saving of HTML in DT/DTTG in one place. DT and DTTG offer some options to save HTML documents: Bookmark Markdown (MD) Webarchive PDF (single and multi-page) Text only RTF HTML Formatted Note Before talking about the formats in detail, it is important to determine what shall be achieved by saving the HTML document. Which is a bit more complicated than it may sound at first. Some years ago, an HTML document was just that: A sta…

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