Perfectclone open-sourced: mirror a real frontend in 15 seconds
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Developer eshaangulati releases the open-source tool perfectclone, which uses Playwright to capture the HTML, JS, CSS, fonts, and images of a target public website and outputs a deployable 1:1 frontend copy in about 15 seconds, without using AI or tokens. The tool requires Python 3.10+, automatically downloads Chromium on first clone, strips trackers by default, and is open-sourced under the MIT license. Its purpose is to copy a real site's frontend rather than rewrite it with AI.
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Perfectclone is an open-source Python tool that clones public websites 1:1 by crawling them with a real Chromium browser (Playwright) and mirroring the HTML, JavaScript, CSS, fonts and images the server actually serves, rather than regenerating the site with an AI agent. It also offers commands to rebrand text, rehost URLs and strip trackers while preserving hydration on Next.js sites, and its author reports 100% pixel matches on several tested sites. It requires Python 3.10+ and is MIT licensed.
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