diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a3ef389..c798432 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -299,6 +299,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "generic-array",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "bstr"
+version = "1.12.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "234113d19d0d7d613b40e86fb654acf958910802bcceab913a4f9e7cda03b1a4"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bumpalo"
 version = "3.17.0"
@@ -1118,6 +1128,19 @@ version = "0.31.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "07e28edb80900c19c28f1072f2e8aeca7fa06b23cd4169cefe1af5aa3260783f"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "globset"
+version = "0.4.16"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "54a1028dfc5f5df5da8a56a73e6c153c9a9708ec57232470703592a3f18e49f5"
+dependencies = [
+ "aho-corasick",
+ "bstr",
+ "log",
+ "regex-automata 0.4.9",
+ "regex-syntax 0.8.5",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "h2"
 version = "0.4.10"
@@ -1447,6 +1470,22 @@ dependencies = [
  "icu_properties",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ignore"
+version = "0.4.23"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6d89fd380afde86567dfba715db065673989d6253f42b88179abd3eae47bda4b"
+dependencies = [
+ "crossbeam-deque",
+ "globset",
+ "log",
+ "memchr",
+ "regex-automata 0.4.9",
+ "same-file",
+ "walkdir",
+ "winapi-util",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "indexmap"
 version = "2.9.0"
@@ -1747,6 +1786,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "axum",
  "clap",
  "futures",
+ "ignore",
  "lopdf",
  "quick-xml",
  "rayon",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d44a1e3..a2e3b64 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,3 +29,7 @@ utoipa-swagger-ui = { version = "9.0.2", features = ["axum", "vendored"] }
 uuid = { version = "1.17.0", features = ["v4"] }
 walkdir = "2.5.0"
 zip = "4.2.0"
+
+[build-dependencies]
+ignore = "0.4.23"
+zip = { version = "4.2.0", default-features = false, features = ["deflate"] }
diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..82dac72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+use std::{
+    env,
+    fs::File,
+    io::{Read, Write},
+    path::Path,
+};
+
+use ignore::Walk;
+use zip::{CompressionMethod, write::SimpleFileOptions};
+
+fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let out_dir = env::var("OUT_DIR")?;
+    let src_dir = ".";
+
+    let zip_path = Path::new(&out_dir).join("archive.zip");
+    let zip_file = File::create(zip_path)?;
+
+    let walkdir = Walk::new(src_dir);
+    let it = walkdir.into_iter();
+
+    let mut zip = zip::ZipWriter::new(zip_file);
+
+    let options = SimpleFileOptions::default()
+        .compression_method(CompressionMethod::Deflated)
+        .unix_permissions(0o755);
+
+    for entry in it {
+        let entry = entry?;
+        let path = entry.path();
+        let name = path.strip_prefix(Path::new(src_dir))?;
+
+        if path.is_file() {
+            zip.start_file(name.to_str().unwrap(), options)?;
+            let mut f = File::open(path)?;
+            let mut buffer = Vec::new();
+            f.read_to_end(&mut buffer)?;
+            zip.write_all(&buffer)?;
+        } else if !name.as_os_str().is_empty() {
+            zip.add_directory(name.to_str().unwrap(), options)?;
+        }
+    }
+    zip.finish()?;
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed={}", src_dir);
+
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/src/api.rs b/src/api.rs
index b85f2ec..0aa7c7e 100644
--- a/src/api.rs
+++ b/src/api.rs
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ use utoipa_swagger_ui::SwaggerUi;
 
 use crate::{storage::Postgres, text_encoder::TextEncoder, tokenize::Tokenizer};
 
+pub mod code;
 pub mod error;
 pub mod query;
 pub mod routes;
diff --git a/src/api/code.rs b/src/api/code.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b01294
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/api/code.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+use axum::{
+    http::{StatusCode, header},
+    response::{IntoResponse, Response},
+};
+
+use super::TAG;
+
+const SOURCE_ARCHIVE: &[u8] = include_bytes!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/archive.zip"));
+
+/// Serve the source code archive as a downloadable zip file.
+#[utoipa::path(
+    get,
+    path = "/code",
+    tag = TAG,
+    responses(
+        (status = 200,
+         description = "Source code archive as zip file",
+         content_type = "application/zip",
+         headers(
+             ("content-disposition" = String, description = "Attachment filename"),
+             ("content-length" = String, description = "File size in bytes")
+         )
+        ),
+    )
+)]
+pub async fn route() -> Result<Response, StatusCode> {
+    let content_length = SOURCE_ARCHIVE.len().to_string();
+    let headers = [
+        (header::CONTENT_TYPE, "application/zip"),
+        (
+            header::CONTENT_DISPOSITION,
+            "attachment; filename=\"source.zip\"",
+        ),
+        (header::CONTENT_LENGTH, content_length.as_str()),
+    ];
+
+    Ok((headers, SOURCE_ARCHIVE).into_response())
+}
diff --git a/src/api/routes.rs b/src/api/routes.rs
index d1c06a1..9da1bc0 100644
--- a/src/api/routes.rs
+++ b/src/api/routes.rs
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ use tower_http::trace::TraceLayer;
 use utoipa_axum::{router::OpenApiRouter, routes};
 
 use super::state::AppState;
-use crate::api::query;
+use crate::api::{code, query};
 
 /// Create the main API router with all endpoints and middleware.
 pub fn router(state: AppState) -> OpenApiRouter {
     let store = Arc::new(state);
     OpenApiRouter::new()
-        .routes(routes!(query::route))
+        .routes(routes!(query::route, code::route))
         .layer(TraceLayer::new_for_http())
         .with_state(store)
 }