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Webclone.js

A simple tool to clone websites

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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.

HN · launched Dec 2, 2025 · 24 upvotes (top 31%) · 0 views

Niche: web scraping tools and apis · 172 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▲ +9% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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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 : 245 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #91 of 246 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 28 days after the earliest competitor.

  • perfectclone-website-cloner · github · 2026-11-04 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • webcopier.tools · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Titan · hn · 2025-12-11 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Htmlhub · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • deframer · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Rusteerio by Context.dev · ph · 2026-10-19 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • ditto.site · ph · 2026-07-21 · 382 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Scrui · ph · 2026-09-23 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41

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