# Can you export a Webflow site for free? Yes, mirror it · Stacktree

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#  Export your Webflow site without the paid plan.

   Webflow's official code export requires a paid Workspace plan, skips your CMS content, and disables forms and search anyway. Your published site, meanwhile, is complete, rendered HTML sitting on a CDN. Mirror it, clean it up, and host it anywhere. There is a free Claude Code skill that does the whole thing.

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##  How do you export a Webflow site without paying for export?

Mirror the published site instead of exporting the project. `wget` downloads every page and asset from Webflow's CDN, and the open-source [website-builder-migrate skill](https://github.com/stevysmith/website-builder-migrate-skill) automates the cleanup that follows: rewriting CDN URLs, stripping the SRI integrity hashes that otherwise blank the page, fetching the webpack chunks wget misses, and verifying every reference in a browser. The result is a self-contained static folder that deploys to any host. This works for sites you own; CMS pages come along as rendered HTML, which Webflow's own paid export does not include.

## What Webflow's official export actually gives you

 Per Webflow's help center: code export is available on paid Workspace plans only, and what comes out excludes CMS content, User Accounts, Ecommerce, code components, and localized pages. Collection lists render their empty state; Collection pages render with no bound content. Password protection is dropped, and site search and forms do not function on exported code.

 So if your site has a blog, a careers section, or anything else CMS-driven, the official export hands you a shell of it, after you have paid for the plan that includes the button. That is not a criticism of Webflow's product priorities; export is not what they sell. It just means export is the wrong tool for getting a complete copy of your site.

## The published site is the complete version

 The copy of your site that visitors see is fully rendered: every CMS page is real HTML, every image is on the CDN, every interaction script is loaded. Mirroring that with `wget --mirror` captures it all. What the raw mirror does not give you is something deployable, because builder sites carry artifacts that break the moment files move: SRI integrity hashes that no longer match once URLs are rewritten (the classic blank-page symptom), webpack chunks the runtime loads dynamically that wget never sees, inline `background-image` assets, double-encoded CMS filenames, and font paths inside CSS that assume Webflow's directory layout.

 The [website-builder-migrate skill](https://github.com/stevysmith/website-builder-migrate-skill) exists because that cleanup list is long, mechanical, and the same every time. Installed into Claude Code with one command, it runs a seven-phase workflow: mirror, consolidate into a clean `site/` structure, rewrite asset URLs, fix the known breakages above, verify every reference plus an in-browser render check, deploy, and optional polish. It is platform-agnostic, with worked notes for Webflow, Framer, Squarespace, Wix, and Carrd.

 `npx skills add stevysmith/website-builder-migrate-skill`

## Verify on a private URL before DNS moves

 A freshly migrated site needs checking against the original before anything public changes, and the right place to check it is a URL nobody can guess. The migrated folder zips and publishes to Stacktree in one line, no account needed:

 `(cd site && zip -qr ../site.zip .) && curl -F "file=@site.zip" https://api.stacktr.ee/sites`

 That returns a private, unguessable preview URL, live for 24 hours, up to 10 MB anonymously. Open it next to the original, click through every page, check the console. When it holds up, keep it: a free account gets 3 pages at 25 MB that last 7 days, enough to finish the review, and Solo at $19 a month makes them permanent with your own domain included. Because the skill runs inside an agent session, the agent can do the keeping too: it can provision its own key for $1 over [x402](/x402), then pay $5 to make one page permanent or $5 per 30 days for a domain, or print a QR code you pay by card in two taps. The whole migration, mirror to verified preview to owned domain, happens without leaving the terminal.

## What stays broken, honestly

 Three things do not survive any departure from Webflow, including the official export. Forms depend on Webflow's backend; replace them with Formspree, Basin, or Web3Forms, or swap the form for a direct CTA. Native site search is gone; Pagefind runs entirely client-side and fits a static mirror well. And CMS content is frozen at mirror time; if you publish weekly, either re-run the mirror (it is a skill invocation, not an afternoon) or accept that the migrated copy is an archive. Animations and interactions, the part people expect to break, generally keep working, because the Webflow runtime ships with the mirror.

## Beyond Webflow

 The same approach covers the other builders, with the same caveat structure. Framer mirrors well but is a React SPA, so verify hydration in a real browser. Squarespace carries heavy template JS and server-side image transforms. Carrd is usually a single inlined HTML file, barely needing the workflow. Wix is the honest exception: its pages are largely client-rendered from dynamic configs, and mirroring only works reliably for static template sites. The skill's per-platform table covers the CDN domains and chunk patterns for each.

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## Frequent questions

     Can you export a Webflow site for free? +  Not through Webflow itself: per Webflow's help center, code export is only available on paid Workspace plans, and Site plans do not include it. But your published site is plain HTML, CSS, and JS that any browser can fetch, so mirroring it with wget is free. The website-builder-migrate skill automates the mirror and the cleanup that follows.   Does Webflow code export include CMS content? +  No. Per Webflow's help center, exported code excludes CMS, User Accounts, and Ecommerce content: Collection lists show their empty state and Collection pages render without any bound content. Mirroring the published site captures CMS pages as fully rendered HTML instead, frozen at the moment of the mirror. For a blog or careers section, that is usually exactly what you want.   Is it OK to mirror a Webflow site? +  Mirror sites you own or control: your own published Webflow project, your company's site, a client project you are migrating with permission. The approach fetches only what the site already serves publicly, but the point is migration of your own work, not copying someone else's.   What breaks when you self-host a Webflow export or mirror? +  The same three things in both cases: forms (they depend on Webflow's backend; swap in Formspree, Basin, or Web3Forms), native site search (use Pagefind or Algolia), and live CMS updates (the mirror is a static snapshot). Animations, sliders, and interactions keep working because the Webflow runtime JS comes along in the mirror. Note that even Webflow's official export disables forms and search.   How do I test the migrated site before switching DNS? +  Publish it to a private, unguessable URL and compare it against the original. On Stacktree, zipping the migrated folder and posting it to the API needs no account and returns a 24-hour preview link. When it checks out, make it permanent and attach your domain; DNS is the last step, not the first.   Does this work for Framer, Squarespace, or Wix sites? +  The skill is platform-agnostic with per-platform notes. Framer and Squarespace mirror well with their own CDN domains and quirks. Carrd is trivial, usually one inlined HTML file. Wix is the hard case: heavily client-rendered pages often mirror incompletely, so treat Wix migrations as static-template-only.
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## Related guides

   -  [ All builders: the export landscape Framer, Squarespace, Wix, and Carrd compared: who allows export at all, and how mirroring covers them. ](/website-builder-migration)
-  [ Hosting vibe-coded pages Where static output goes when it needs a link: the apps-vs-pages boundary. ](/vibe-coding-hosting)
-  [ Best private HTML hosting The 7-tool comparison, including the hosts in the skill's deploy table. ](/best-private-html-hosting)
-  [ Agents that pay their own way How an agent provisions hosting mid-task: x402 or scan-to-pay. ](/x402)
-  [ Pricing Free is a 3-page, 7-day trial; permanence and your domain start at $19. ](/pricing)

References

## Sources and further reading

   -  [ Webflow Help Center: code export ↗ The primary source on what export includes, which plans have it, and what is excluded (CMS, forms, search, password protection). ](https://help.webflow.com/hc/en-us/articles/33961386739347-How-do-I-export-my-Webflow-site-code)
-  [ website-builder-migrate skill ↗ The open-source Claude Code skill: seven-phase mirror, cleanup, verify, and deploy workflow for Webflow, Framer, Squarespace, Wix, and Carrd. ](https://github.com/stevysmith/website-builder-migrate-skill)
-  [ GNU Wget manual ↗ The mirroring tool underneath: --mirror, --convert-links, --page-requisites, --span-hosts. ](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html)
-  [ Pagefind ↗ Client-side search that restores site search on a static mirror without a backend. ](https://pagefind.app)

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