diff --git a/lib/wayback_machine_downloader.rb b/lib/wayback_machine_downloader.rb
index 730714a..98b2a17 100644
--- a/lib/wayback_machine_downloader.rb
+++ b/lib/wayback_machine_downloader.rb
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 require 'fileutils'
 require 'cgi'
 require 'json'
+require 'zlib'
+require 'stringio'
 require_relative 'wayback_machine_downloader/tidy_bytes'
 require_relative 'wayback_machine_downloader/to_regex'
 require_relative 'wayback_machine_downloader/archive_api'
@@ -269,7 +271,14 @@ def download_file file_remote_info
         open(file_path, "wb") do |file|
           begin
             URI("https://web.archive.org/web/#{file_timestamp}id_/#{file_url}").open("Accept-Encoding" => "plain") do |uri|
-              file.write(uri.read)
+              content = uri.read
+              
+              if uri.content_encoding.include? 'gzip'
+                gz = Zlib::GzipReader.new(StringIO.new(content))
+                content = gz.read
+              end
+              
+              file.write(content)
             end
           rescue OpenURI::HTTPError => e
             puts "#{file_url} # #{e}"