SITE IMPORT
Import a site from its address
Paste the address of a static site hosted somewhere else and we fetch its pages, styles, images and fonts, then publish the copy on a link of yours.
Free plan, free SSL, no credit card.
Plan availability
Which plans include site import
Importing is available on every plan, including the free one. Plan upload and storage limits still apply to the result.
- Free Included
- Starter Included
- Pro Included
- Business Included
- Enterprise Included
Read from the plan records this account is billed against, not from a page someone wrote, so it cannot disagree with what happens when you click the button. See every plan and its limits.
What it does
A crawl, a rewrite, and a normal publish
We fetch the address you give us, follow its internal links, collect what those pages need, and rewrite the references so the copy works on its own.
The crawler starts at the address you paste and walks the site's own links up to 40 pages and 600 assets, taking the HTML, the stylesheets, the images and the fonts. Then it rewrites the links and asset references so nothing in the copy points back at the original host, packages the result, and runs it through the same publish pipeline as a file you would have dropped in yourself. What you end up with is an ordinary site here, with its own address, its own version history and its own settings.
This exists because the hard part of leaving a host is rarely the hosting. It is finding the files, and on an old site there frequently is no build any more: the person who made it is gone, the source is gone, and the only surviving copy is the one on the internet. Importing turns that into something you can hold. If what you have is already a folder or a ZIP, skip this and use the ZIP upload, which is faster and exact.
How to use it
Three steps
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Paste the address
The public URL of the site you want copied. It has to be reachable without a password, because the crawler sees only what a visitor sees.
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Let the crawl run
Pages and assets are fetched under a cap, then the references are rewritten so the copy stands on its own.
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Review and publish
The result becomes a site here, on your own link. Check it, then connect a domain if it is replacing the original.
Where it earns its keep
When people reach for this
Rescuing a site whose source is gone
An old brochure site with no repository and no build. Import it, and you have a copy you can host, edit and keep.
Leaving a host that is shutting down or getting expensive
Copy first, compare, then switch the DNS. Nothing has to be taken down while you decide.
Taking a snapshot before a redesign
Keep the current site on a link of its own so the old version is still reachable while the new one is built.
The alternative
Doing this without us
The manual version is a site mirroring tool plus a pile of path fixes.
| Droply | A command-line mirroring tool | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting the files | Paste a URL. | Install a tool and get its flags right. |
| Fixing absolute paths | Rewritten during the import. | A find-and-replace pass you do yourself. |
| Publishing the result | Same step. It comes out live. | A separate upload to a separate host. |
| Cost | Included on every plan, including the free one. | Free, plus the afternoon. |
Compared against the general practice of mirroring a site locally with a command-line tool. Checked September 2026.
When this is not the right tool
An import copies what a visitor can see. Anything the original site produced on its server is not visible to a visitor.
- A dynamic site does not come across as a dynamic site. A WordPress blog imports as flat pages, with no admin, no comments and no search.
- Anything behind a login, a paywall or a password cannot be fetched, because the crawler is an ordinary anonymous visitor.
- A page that builds itself in the browser from an API call will import as the empty shell it serves.
- The crawl is capped at 40 pages, so a large site comes across partially.
- Copy only what you have the right to copy. Importing someone else's site does not make it yours.