diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cd3027e..b123f42 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,8 +41,15 @@ go install github.com/cornelk/goscrape@latest
 Compiling the tool from source code needs to have a recent version of [Golang](https://go.dev/) installed.
 
 ## Usage
+
+Scrape a website by running
+```
+goscrape http://website.com`
+```
+
+To serve the downloaded website directory in a local run webserver use
 ```
-goscrape http://website.com
+goscrape --serve website.com`
 ```
 
 ## Options
@@ -50,7 +57,7 @@ goscrape http://website.com
 ```
 Scrape a website and create an offline browsable version on the disk.
 
-Usage: goscrape [--include INCLUDE] [--exclude EXCLUDE] [--output OUTPUT] [--depth DEPTH] [--imagequality IMAGEQUALITY] [--timeout TIMEOUT] [--header HEADER] [--proxy PROXY] [--user USER] [--useragent USERAGENT] [--verbose] [URLS [URLS ...]]
+Usage: goscrape [--include INCLUDE] [--exclude EXCLUDE] [--output OUTPUT] [--depth DEPTH] [--imagequality IMAGEQUALITY] [--timeout TIMEOUT] [--serve SERVE] [--serverport SERVERPORT] [--header HEADER] [--proxy PROXY] [--user USER] [--useragent USERAGENT] [--verbose] [URLS [URLS ...]]
 
 Positional arguments:
   URLS
@@ -68,6 +75,10 @@ Options:
                          image quality, 0 to disable reencoding
   --timeout TIMEOUT, -t TIMEOUT
                          time limit in seconds for each HTTP request to connect and read the request body
+  --serve SERVE, -s SERVE
+                         serve the website using a webserver
+  --serverport SERVERPORT, -r SERVERPORT
+                         port to use for the webserver [default: 8080]
   --header HEADER, -h HEADER
                          HTTP header to use for scraping
   --proxy PROXY, -p PROXY
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 87325ea..267a67c 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ type arguments struct {
 	ImageQuality int64 `arg:"-i,--imagequality" help:"image quality, 0 to disable reencoding"`
 	Timeout      int64 `arg:"-t,--timeout" help:"time limit in seconds for each HTTP request to connect and read the request body"`
 
+	Serve      string `arg:"-s,--serve" help:"serve the website using a webserver"`
+	ServerPort int16  `arg:"-r,--serverport" help:"port to use for the webserver" default:"8080"`
+
 	Headers   []string `arg:"-h,--header" help:"HTTP header to use for scraping"`
 	Proxy     string   `arg:"-p,--proxy" help:"HTTP proxy to use for scraping"`
 	User      string   `arg:"-u,--user" help:"user[:password] to use for authentication"`
@@ -55,8 +58,26 @@ func main() {
 	}
 
 	ctx := app.Context()
-	if err := run(ctx, args); err != nil {
-		fmt.Printf("Execution error: %s\n", err)
+
+	if args.Verbose {
+		log.SetDefaultLevel(log.DebugLevel)
+	}
+	logger, err := createLogger()
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("Creating logger failed: %s\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	if args.Serve != "" {
+		if err := runServer(ctx, args, logger); err != nil {
+			fmt.Printf("Server execution error: %s\n", err)
+			os.Exit(1)
+		}
+		return
+	}
+
+	if err := runScraper(ctx, args, logger); err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("Scraping execution error: %s\n", err)
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
 }
@@ -81,7 +102,7 @@ func readArguments() (arguments, error) {
 		return arguments{}, fmt.Errorf("parsing arguments: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	if len(args.URLs) == 0 {
+	if len(args.URLs) == 0 && args.Serve == "" {
 		parser.WriteHelp(os.Stdout)
 		os.Exit(0)
 	}
@@ -90,7 +111,7 @@ func readArguments() (arguments, error) {
 }
 
 // nolint: funlen
-func run(ctx context.Context, args arguments) error {
+func runScraper(ctx context.Context, args arguments, logger *log.Logger) error {
 	if len(args.URLs) == 0 {
 		return nil
 	}
@@ -109,14 +130,6 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, args arguments) error {
 		imageQuality = 0
 	}
 
-	if args.Verbose {
-		log.SetDefaultLevel(log.DebugLevel)
-	}
-	logger, err := createLogger()
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("creating logger: %w", err)
-	}
-
 	cfg := scraper.Config{
 		Includes: args.Include,
 		Excludes: args.Exclude,
@@ -154,6 +167,13 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, args arguments) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func runServer(ctx context.Context, args arguments, logger *log.Logger) error {
+	if err := scraper.ServeDirectory(ctx, args.Serve, args.ServerPort, logger); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("serving directory: %w", err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 func createLogger() (*log.Logger, error) {
 	logCfg, err := log.ConfigForEnv(env.Development)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/scraper/server.go b/scraper/server.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..76f4f9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scraper/server.go
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+package scraper
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"mime"
+	"net/http"
+
+	"github.com/cornelk/gotokit/log"
+)
+
+// set more mime types in the browser, this for example fixes .asp files not being
+// downloaded but handled as html.
+var mimeTypes = map[string]string{
+	".asp": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
+}
+
+func ServeDirectory(ctx context.Context, path string, port int16, logger *log.Logger) error {
+	fs := http.FileServer(http.Dir(path))
+	mux := http.NewServeMux()
+	mux.Handle("/", fs) // server root by file system
+
+	// update mime types
+	for ext, mt := range mimeTypes {
+		if err := mime.AddExtensionType(ext, mt); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("adding mime type '%s': %w", ext, err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	fullAddr := fmt.Sprintf("http://127.0.0.1:%d", port)
+	logger.Info("Serving directory...",
+		log.String("path", path),
+		log.String("address", fullAddr))
+
+	server := &http.Server{
+		Addr:    fmt.Sprintf(":%d", port),
+		Handler: mux,
+	}
+
+	serverErr := make(chan error, 1)
+	go func() {
+		serverErr <- server.ListenAndServe()
+	}()
+
+	select {
+	case <-ctx.Done():
+		//nolint: contextcheck
+		if err := server.Shutdown(context.Background()); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("shutting down webserver: %w", err)
+		}
+		return nil
+
+	case err := <-serverErr:
+		return fmt.Errorf("starting webserver: %w", err)
+	}
+}