You can download a Framer site with your browser's “Save page as,” with a scraper like wget, or with a true export tool — but the three produce very different files. Browser saves and scrapes give you a snapshot that breaks when edited; a true export gives you standalone code with the animations intact. This guide covers all three, for sites you own.
Downloading a Framer site with a scraper captures a snapshot of rendered markup; exporting it produces standalone code you own — the difference shows up the first time you try to change anything.
Who this is for: your own published site — your portfolio, your company site, a client site you're delivering. Downloading someone else's site to reuse their design or content isn't a tooling question, and this tool won't help you do it.
Option 1: Browser “Save page as” — free, and mostly useless
The browser saves what the page looked like at one moment: one page at a time, rendered markup, no site structure. Framer sites lean on JavaScript-driven animation and lazy loading, so the saved copy misses whatever hadn't executed. Verdict from people who tried the scrape route: “almost impossible to edit, not scalable, can break.”
Good for: a quick visual reference. Not for: anything you'll edit or host.
Option 2: wget / HTTrack scrape — a fragile mirror
A recursive scrape crawls the whole site and rewrites links, which beats the browser save — but it still captures rendered output, not source. Scroll-triggered animations, interactions, and anything behind JS execution arrive broken or half-there. You inherit thousands of lines of generated markup with no structure to edit.
Good for: archiving a snapshot. Not for: a site that needs to keep working, or ever change.
Option 3: A true export — code that survives editing
A true export produces standalone HTML/CSS/JS (or React components) that run without Framer's runtime, with animations included — the thing the snapshot methods structurally can't deliver. Not Framer's built-in export, which still depends on their runtime, and not the ZIP tools users call out for dropping “30–40% of the animations.”
With exportframer: paste your published URL, preview the complete export free — check the animations against your live site — then download. Export to HTML →
Quick decision table
| You want to… | Use |
|---|---|
| Grab a visual reference of one page | Browser save |
| Archive a moment-in-time snapshot | wget/HTTrack |
| Stop paying Framer hosting for your finished site | True export → free static hosting |
| Get code you can edit and hand to a developer | True export → HTML or React |
| Keep visually editing after leaving Framer | clonesite.ai |
FAQ
Can I download my Framer website?
Yes. For a usable copy, export it rather than scrape it: a true export produces standalone HTML or React with animations included, previewable free at exportframer.com. Browser saves and wget scrapes only capture a fragile snapshot.
Can I download a Framer site for free?
Browser saves and wget are free but produce broken, uneditable snapshots. exportframer's full-site preview is free — you see the entire export before deciding to download.
Is downloading a website legal?
Downloading your own site is. Downloading someone else's site to reuse its design or content generally infringes their copyright — exportframer is for exporting sites you own.
Why does my saved Framer page look broken?
Framer pages build themselves with JavaScript at load time; a saved page captures whatever had rendered at that instant. Missing animations and blank sections are the JS that never ran. An export solves this at the source — here's how to confirm the animations survive →