Show HN: Webclone.js – A simple tool to clone websites

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20 points by jadesee a day ago

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/webclone

Feedback, issues, and PRs are very welcome.

frankhsu - 2 minutes ago

Really nice tool, Thank you! I had confronted some issues after cloned the repo and installed the node_modules. I'm using node.js v20, when I tried "node webclone.js --help" the terminal catch a error of "Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: require() of ES Module /Users/fangyexu/Desktop/dev-s/_github/webclone/node_modules/yargs/index.mjs not supported."

Then I just throwed it to my Cursor and it help me solved the issue.

ohans - 12 hours ago

Looks good! You could push to npm so that running it could be as easy as:

npx webclone URL (no repo cloning required)

Also, FYI, when running the example code

node webclone.js https://www.example.com/

It fails (at least for me) until I either install yt-dlp or ignore videos via:

node webclone.js https://www.example.com/

khiqinsta - 12 hours ago

can it also clone games? you know these web html games

moralestapia - 12 hours ago

Hey thanks! This is quite handful, I often do this "manually", lol.