diff --git a/qwarc/cli.py b/qwarc/cli.py
index 01648e7..e9bcbcf 100644
--- a/qwarc/cli.py
+++ b/qwarc/cli.py
@@ -4,19 +4,9 @@ import importlib.util
 import logging
 import os.path
 import qwarc
+import qwarc.utils
 import qwarc.version
 import sys
-import time
-
-
-class Formatter(logging.Formatter):
-	def format(self, record):
-		if not hasattr(record, 'itemString'):
-			if hasattr(record, 'itemType') and hasattr(record, 'itemValue'):
-				record.itemString = f'{record.itemType}:{record.itemValue}'
-			else:
-				record.itemString = 'None'
-		return super().format(record)
 
 
 def setup_logging(logFilename):
@@ -24,8 +14,7 @@ def setup_logging(logFilename):
 	rootLogger.handlers = []
 	rootLogger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
 
-	formatter = Formatter('%(asctime)s.%(msecs)03dZ %(levelname)s %(itemString)s %(message)s', datefmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
-	formatter.converter = time.gmtime
+	formatter = qwarc.utils.LogFormatter()
 
 	fileHandler = logging.FileHandler(logFilename)
 	fileHandler.setFormatter(formatter)
diff --git a/qwarc/utils.py b/qwarc/utils.py
index 60d1cbd..8ac80c5 100644
--- a/qwarc/utils.py
+++ b/qwarc/utils.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import logging
 import os
 import pkg_resources
 import platform
+import time
 
 
 PAGESIZE = os.sysconf('SC_PAGE_SIZE')
@@ -215,3 +216,17 @@ def get_software_info():
 		},
 		'self': [{"package": package, "version": version} for package, version in _get_dependency_versions(__package__)],
 	  }
+
+
+class LogFormatter(logging.Formatter):
+	def __init__(self):
+		super().__init__('%(asctime)s.%(msecs)03dZ %(levelname)s %(itemString)s %(message)s', datefmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
+		self.converter = time.gmtime
+
+	def format(self, record):
+		if not hasattr(record, 'itemString'):
+			if hasattr(record, 'itemType') and hasattr(record, 'itemValue'):
+				record.itemString = f'{record.itemType}:{record.itemValue}'
+			else:
+				record.itemString = 'None'
+		return super().format(record)
diff --git a/qwarc/warc.py b/qwarc/warc.py
index fe8d1c2..db2d648 100644
--- a/qwarc/warc.py
+++ b/qwarc/warc.py
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 import fcntl
+import gzip
 import io
 import json
 import logging
+import os
 import qwarc.utils
+import tempfile
 import time
 import warcio
 
@@ -28,6 +31,19 @@ class WARC:
 		self._dedupe = dedupe
 		self._dedupeMap = {}
 
+		self._logFile = None
+		self._logHandler = None
+		self._setup_logger()
+
+	def _setup_logger(self):
+		rootLogger = logging.getLogger()
+		formatter = qwarc.utils.LogFormatter()
+		self._logFile = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(prefix = 'qwarc-warc-', suffix = '.log.gz', delete = False)
+		self._logHandler = logging.StreamHandler(io.TextIOWrapper(gzip.GzipFile(filename = self._logFile.name, mode = 'wb'), encoding = 'utf-8'))
+		self._logHandler.setFormatter(formatter)
+		rootLogger.addHandler(self._logHandler)
+		self._logHandler.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+
 	def _ensure_opened(self):
 		'''Open the next file that doesn't exist yet if there is currently no file opened'''
 
@@ -116,7 +132,7 @@ class WARC:
 		if self._maxFileSize and self._file.tell() > self._maxFileSize:
 			self.close()
 
-	def close(self):
+	def _close_file(self):
 		'''Close the currently opened WARC'''
 
 		if not self._closed:
@@ -124,3 +140,40 @@ class WARC:
 			self._warcWriter = None
 			self._file = None
 			self._closed = True
+
+	def _write_meta_warc(self):
+		filename = f'{self._prefix}-meta.warc.gz'
+		#TODO: Handle OSError on fcntl.flock and retry
+		self._file = open(filename, 'ab')
+		try:
+			fcntl.flock(self._file.fileno(), fcntl.LOCK_EX)
+			logging.info(f'Opened {filename}')
+			self._warcWriter = warcio.warcwriter.WARCWriter(self._file, gzip = True)
+			self._closed = False
+
+			self.write_warcinfo_record()
+
+			self._logHandler.flush()
+			self._logHandler.stream.close()
+			record = self._warcWriter.create_warc_record(
+			    'urn:qwarc:log',
+			    'resource',
+			    payload = gzip.GzipFile(self._logFile.name),
+			    warc_headers_dict = {'Content-Type': 'text/plain; charset=utf-8'},
+			  )
+			self._warcWriter.write_record(record)
+		finally:
+			self._close_file()
+
+	def close(self):
+		'''Clean up everything.'''
+		self._close_file()
+		self._write_meta_warc()
+		logging.getLogger().removeHandler(self._logHandler)
+		try:
+			os.remove(self._logFile.name)
+		except OSError:
+			logging.error('Could not remove temporary log file')
+		self._logFile = None
+		self._logHandler.close()
+		self._logHandler = None