diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d024ee2..f8f45f1 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "sha3",
+ "tempfile",
  "uuid",
 ]
 
diff --git a/crates/archivr-core/Cargo.toml b/crates/archivr-core/Cargo.toml
index c446710..30ecc0f 100644
--- a/crates/archivr-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/archivr-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,3 +14,6 @@ serde_json.workspace = true
 sha3.workspace = true
 uuid.workspace = true
 reqwest = { workspace = true }
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+tempfile = "3"
diff --git a/crates/archivr-core/src/downloader/mod.rs b/crates/archivr-core/src/downloader/mod.rs
index 21c6b34..d8c3911 100644
--- a/crates/archivr-core/src/downloader/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/archivr-core/src/downloader/mod.rs
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ pub mod tweets;
 pub mod ytdlp;
 pub mod metadata;
 pub mod http;
+pub mod singlefile;
diff --git a/crates/archivr-core/src/downloader/singlefile.rs b/crates/archivr-core/src/downloader/singlefile.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..06b409a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/archivr-core/src/downloader/singlefile.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+use anyhow::{Context, Result, bail};
+use std::{env, io::Read, path::Path, process::Command};
+
+use crate::hash::hash_file;
+
+/// Archives `url` as a self-contained HTML snapshot.
+///
+/// Returns `(sha256_hex, title_hint)` on success.
+/// - `sha256_hex`: hash of the saved `.html` file, used as the blob key.
+/// - `title_hint`: page title extracted from the `<title>` tag, if present.
+///
+/// Reads two env vars:
+/// - `ARCHIVR_SINGLE_FILE`: path to the `single-file` binary (default: `"single-file"`).
+/// - `ARCHIVR_CHROME`: path to the Chromium/Chrome binary (default: `"chromium"`).
+pub fn save(url: &str, store_path: &Path, timestamp: &str) -> Result<(String, Option<String>)> {
+    let single_file =
+        env::var("ARCHIVR_SINGLE_FILE").unwrap_or_else(|_| "single-file".to_string());
+    let chrome = env::var("ARCHIVR_CHROME").unwrap_or_else(|_| "chromium".to_string());
+    save_with(url, store_path, timestamp, &single_file, &chrome)
+}
+
+/// Inner implementation; takes binary paths explicitly so tests can inject them
+/// without mutating process-global environment variables.
+fn save_with(
+    url: &str,
+    store_path: &Path,
+    timestamp: &str,
+    single_file: &str,
+    chrome: &str,
+) -> Result<(String, Option<String>)> {
+    let temp_dir = store_path.join("temp").join(timestamp);
+    std::fs::create_dir_all(&temp_dir).context("failed to create temp dir")?;
+
+    let out_file = temp_dir.join(format!("{timestamp}.html"));
+
+    let out = Command::new(single_file)
+        .arg(url)
+        .arg(&out_file)
+        .arg(format!("--browser-executable-path={chrome}"))
+        .arg("--browser-headless")
+        .output()
+        .with_context(|| format!("failed to spawn {single_file} process"))?;
+
+    if !out.status.success() {
+        let stderr = String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr);
+        bail!("single-file failed: {stderr}");
+    }
+
+    if !out_file.exists() {
+        bail!(
+            "single-file exited successfully but produced no output file at {}",
+            out_file.display()
+        );
+    }
+
+    let title = extract_html_title(&out_file);
+    let hash = hash_file(&out_file)?;
+    Ok((hash, title))
+}
+
+/// Reads the first 8 KiB of `path` and extracts the content of the first
+/// `<title>…</title>` element. Returns `None` if absent or empty.
+///
+/// Uses `to_ascii_lowercase` for case-insensitive tag matching. ASCII-only
+/// lowercasing is byte-length-preserving, so byte offsets derived from the
+/// lowercased buffer are valid indices into the original buffer.
+fn extract_html_title(path: &Path) -> Option<String> {
+    let mut buf = [0u8; 8192];
+    let n = std::fs::File::open(path).ok()?.read(&mut buf).ok()?;
+    // Recover a valid UTF-8 prefix if the 8 KiB boundary falls mid-character.
+    let snippet = match std::str::from_utf8(&buf[..n]) {
+        Ok(s) => s,
+        Err(e) => std::str::from_utf8(&buf[..e.valid_up_to()]).ok()?,
+    };
+    // ASCII-only lowercase: A-Z -> a-z, all other bytes unchanged.
+    // Byte lengths are identical to the original, so offsets are safe to reuse.
+    let lower = snippet.to_ascii_lowercase();
+    let tag_start = lower.find("<title>")?;
+    let content_start = tag_start + 7; // len("<title>") == 7
+    let content_end = content_start + lower[content_start..].find("</title>")?;
+    let title = snippet[content_start..content_end].trim();
+    if title.is_empty() { None } else { Some(title.to_string()) }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use std::io::Write;
+    use tempfile::NamedTempFile;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn extract_html_title_finds_title() {
+        let mut f = NamedTempFile::new().unwrap();
+        write!(f, "<html><head><title>Paul Graham — Great Work</title></head></html>").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            extract_html_title(f.path()),
+            Some("Paul Graham — Great Work".to_string())
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn extract_html_title_case_insensitive() {
+        let mut f = NamedTempFile::new().unwrap();
+        write!(f, "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>My Page</TITLE></HEAD></HTML>").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(extract_html_title(f.path()), Some("My Page".to_string()));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn extract_html_title_empty_tag_returns_none() {
+        let mut f = NamedTempFile::new().unwrap();
+        write!(f, "<html><head><title>   </title></head></html>").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(extract_html_title(f.path()), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn extract_html_title_no_title_tag_returns_none() {
+        let mut f = NamedTempFile::new().unwrap();
+        write!(f, "<html><head></head><body>no title here</body></html>").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(extract_html_title(f.path()), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn save_with_missing_binary_returns_clear_error() {
+        // Calls save_with directly — no env mutation, safe in parallel test runs.
+        let tmp = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let result = save_with(
+            "https://example.com",
+            tmp.path(),
+            "test-ts",
+            "/nonexistent/single-file",
+            "chromium",
+        );
+        let err = result.unwrap_err();
+        let msg = format!("{err:#}");
+        assert!(
+            msg.contains("spawn") || msg.contains("nonexistent") || msg.contains("No such"),
+            "unexpected error: {msg}"
+        );
+    }
+}