How to Clone Any Website Now with AI

Usually fine

Common layout patterns, section order, and design ideas seen across the web

Not fine

Taking someone’s text, images, logos, brand, or code without permission

Never

Copying a site to impersonate a business or to harvest people’s logins or payments

Clone the structure, never the identity. Make it yours.

This guide is not legal advice. If in doubt, ask a lawyer.

• Rebuild your own old website with modern tools
• Move a site you own off a platform you plan to leave
• Learn how a layout works by recreating it yourself
• Start from a design you love, then make it your own
• Recreate a client’s site with the client’s permission

URL-to-code tools

Tools such as Clonesite, CopyWeb, and same.new rebuild a public page from its URL

App builders

Lovable, Bolt, and v0 can recreate a layout from a screenshot plus a description

Coding agents

Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor rebuild sites from screenshots and notes, with full control over the code

Simple landing pages clone best. Complex apps and dashboards rarely come out clean.

• Take full-page screenshots on desktop and on mobile
• List the sections in order: header, hero, features, pricing, and footer
• Note the fonts, colors, spacing, and interactions
• Keep your own content in a separate place

Use these screenshots as a layout reference and build a responsive landing page in [framework] with the same section order and spacing. Take my brand colors, fonts, text, and images from the attached files. Copy no text, logos, or images from the screenshots.

• Upload screenshots of the full layout
• Explain what each section does
• Swap every piece of content for your own
• Match the colors and fonts to your brand

• Your own copy, written for your audience
• Your own images and your own illustrations
• Your own logo, colors, and fonts
• Layout changes wherever your content needs them

• Check every screen size
• Compress images and strip unused code
• Add alt text and strong color contrast
• Set page titles and descriptions for search
• Test every link and form

• Follow every site’s terms of service and robots rules
• Never flood a site with automated requests
• Never copy data or content that sits behind a login

• Phishing or look-alike sites built to fool people
• Copying a competitor’s whole site and content
• Using the logos or trademarks of other brands
• Reusing paid themes or code without a license

Each of these can break copyright, trademark, and fraud laws.