Clone any website in three steps.
Go to any page you want a copy of. The toolbar icon activates the moment the site can be cloned.
Copy just the current page, or switch to Multi-page and set how many link levels of the site to clone.
Every page and asset lands in one folder with links rewritten — ready to browse offline or edit locally.
Copy one page or clone the whole site.
Pick the scope right in the popup. No config files, no terminal, no server round-trip.
Cloner, copier, ripper: one operation.
Search for a way to clone a website and you land on four names for one thing. A website cloner, a website copier, a website ripper and an offline browser all fetch a page's files and store them where you can open them without a server. Site Downloader is the version of that which lives in the toolbar instead of asking you to configure a crawl.
One distinction does matter now. A wave of tools marketed as AI website cloners takes a URL, looks at the layout and generates new code that approximates it. Useful when you want a design starting point, useless when you need the original. This copies the real files: the markup the server sent, the stylesheets it referenced, the images it loaded.
That also sets the limits. You get the front end and only the front end. No database, no server code, nothing that sat behind a login, and no video streams; the player markup comes along, the stream does not.
If you want the reading copy rather than the source files, the website downloader page covers the same extension from that angle.
Cloning, explained.
How do I clone a website?
Open any page on it, click Site Downloader, and choose Single to copy that page or Multi-page to clone the site to a link depth you set. The clone arrives as a .zip in your Downloads folder.
Is this an AI website cloner?
No, and that is the point. AI cloners look at a page and generate fresh code that resembles it. This copies the actual files the server sent: the same markup, the same CSS, the same images. What you open offline is the site, not an interpretation of it.
What is the difference between a website cloner and a website copier?
Nothing meaningful. Cloner, copier, ripper and downloader all describe the same job: pulling a site's front-end files to local storage. The words come from different eras of the same tool category.
Can I edit the cloned site afterwards?
Yes. You get ordinary HTML, CSS, JavaScript and image files, so any editor works. Bear in mind that a clone is a starting point for study or a rebuild, not a licence to republish someone else's design.
Does it clone the backend or the database?
No. A website copier only sees what the server sends to a browser. Server code, databases and admin panels are never exposed to visitors and cannot be copied this way.
Can it clone a site that requires a login?
No. Fetches omit your cookies, so the cloner sees the logged-out version of every page. It is a deliberate privacy decision with a real cost.
Is the website cloner free?
Yes. Free from the Chrome Web Store, no account, no page limit.