Launching today
ditto.site
Clone any website into clean code. Free & open source
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Clone any website into clean code. Free & open source
277 followers
Point Ditto at any public URL and get a faithful copy as clean, componentized Next.js or Vite code, in minutes. It's fully deterministic, so it's fast, cheap, and consistent. Components, tokens, interactions & hover states included. Free REST API + MCP server, open source.
ion design
Nice one, congrats on the launch. This looks genuinely useful for getting past the blank-canvas stage, especially when rebuilding an existing customer site. How about the quality of the output once you start editing it. Does Ditto identify sensible reusable components, or is the main goal visual accuracy with some cleanup still needed afterward? Also, how does it handle sites with heavy client-side rendering, forms, or third-party scripts? Those are usually the parts where a clean clone gets difficult.
@os_ishmael it does identify repeated, structurally consistent patterns (e.g. cards, nav items, logos, list rows, etc.) and extracts them into reusable React components with data arrays. For heavily client-rendered sites, Ditto captures the post-JavaScript DOM, computed styles, lazy-loaded content, assets, and observable interactions. Forms are also reproduced visually. Various scripts and stuff may not carry over, as we are then dealing with compiled JS.
ion design
@os_ishmael Yea so like michael mentioned, we have "Recipes" for common patterns where we hav estructures for re creating logic. but that's as far as that goes. For client side rendering and forms you'll still have to bring that in yourself (or with a followup agent)
ion design
@ridhwikvinod Try it out! It's free anyway :) and log any issues on gh
Our algorithm finds repeated content and maps it out into a file that is easy to edit. And ya we built this for customers of ion.design migrating from wordpress/webflow/framer/wix/shopify/etcc
In a production setting we start with this and then run an agent that goes and makes it even better. ditto gives us the speed to show the customer their clone, the agent makes is scalable.
Tried Ditto on a few landing pages and the output was surprisingly clean. One thing that would make this indispensable for me is if it could also extract and map the original page’s Google Fonts or custom font stack into the generated project automatically. Having to manually re-add fonts after cloning breaks the flow a bit.
@yldzkfqa will look into this!
ion design
@yldzkfqa ah yea, it may have hit an edge case on font extraction. we'll look into it and make a PR
The interesting constraint with deterministic cloning is that it only sees the rendered DOM, so anything gated behind auth, scroll triggers or JS state never gets captured. Curious how you handle client-rendered sections that only appear after interaction.
Really cool though - congrats on the launch!
ion design
@aidan_codefox Yea JS is way harder, we didn't write a decompiler or anything. We are able to infer some stuff by capturing DOM diffs at different states (timing for intro animations, after clicks for menus/accordians)
we're just doing the max we can deterministically. in prod we run an agent on teh output of this to get even closer.
the deterministic angle is the part that stands out to me, most "clone a site" tools I've tried lean on an AI guess and you get slightly different output every run. one thing I didn't see covered in the thread yet: if the source site gets updated after I've cloned it, is there a way to re-sync or diff against the new version, or is this meant to be a one-time snapshot you then own and diverge from?
ion design
@galdayan Yea this is meant to be a one time snapshot to migrate customers to a new platform!
@samraaj_bath1 Congrats on open sourcing this! For a marketing site with a few dozen pages, does Ditto crawl and clone the whole site graph in one pass, or is it strictly one URL at a time and I'd need to loop it myself? That can change the real time/API cost of an actual migration job!
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@clement_avq Yep we have a parameter for single page vs multi page clones.
in prod we start with single page so we can show the customer something fast, and do multipage in teh background.
for repeatsed patterns (cms blogs, products, etcc) we recognize that and just make one of those entries at random. Soon we have a CMS extractor coming too :)