Webclone.js
A simple tool to clone websites
Details
- External ID
- 46117937
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Webclone.js
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 2, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 24
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6870229007633588
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I needed a lightweight way to archive documentation from a website. wget and similar tools failed to clone the site reliably (missing assets, broken links, etc.), so I ended up building a full website-cloning tool using Node.js + Puppeteer.Repo: https://github.com/jademsee/webcloneFeedback, issues, and PRs are very welcome.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche developer utilities and toolchains
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- tool to clone websites
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Webclone.js is a wrapper around Puppeteer and Node.js file system APIs to recursively crawl pages, serialize DOM snapshots, and save assets locally.
Discussion
11 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: yt-dlp
Concerns raised: Requires yt-dlp installation even for non-video sites, Node.js v20 ESM module compatibility issues, Fails on example.com without yt-dlp or video ignore flag
Feature requests: Publish to npm for easy npx installation, Support cloning web-based HTML games, Option to ignore videos by default
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 114 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #44 of 115 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 20 days after the earliest competitor.
- Titan · hn · 2025-12-11 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- ditto.site · ph · 2026-07-21 · 382 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Scrui · ph · 2026-09-23 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Node.JS in the Browser · hn · 2026-08-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Lumiana · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- ServerDevTools · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- CycleWire · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller · hn · 2026-03-24 · 648 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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