dittu: Clone Any Website

Turn any website into an editable Next.js or Astro project, verified pixel by pixel.

Layout, CSS, fonts, images and scroll animations. Not the backend. One CLI, one MCP server, and skills for your coding agent.

Quick start · How it works · Benchmarks · Docs

$ dittu clone https://gole.codes --build

› Capturing https://gole.codes
  1,680,755 chars of markup, 6 stylesheets, 33 animations, 13 JS-responsive elements
✓ Static preview → dittu-out/gole.codes/preview
✓ Next.js project → dittu-out/gole.codes/next
✓ Astro project → dittu-out/gole.codes/astro

Visual match (1 − differing pixels / total)
  preview  /home    1440px   99.95%
  next     /home    1440px   99.95%
  astro    /home    1440px   99.95%
  preview  /home     390px   99.89%
  next     /home     390px   99.89%
  astro    /home     390px   99.89%
✓ All checks ≥ 95% (lowest 99.89%)

Quick start

Set up your agent

npx @manishtamang/dittu setup

Registers the dittu MCP server and installs the skills for every agent it finds: Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex. Check your machine first with npx @manishtamang/dittu doctor (on Linux/WSL you may need sudo npx playwright install-deps chromium).

Ask your agent

Clone https://gole.codes into Next.js and make the pricing cards a reusable component.

The agent calls clone_website, reads the scores, refactors the generated components, and calls verify_clone to prove nothing visual changed.

Use the terminal

npx @manishtamang/dittu                                        # interactive: banner, then pick URL, frameworks, pages…
npx @manishtamang/dittu clone https://gole.codes -y           # no questions: preview + Next.js + Astro, scored
npx @manishtamang/dittu clone https://gole.codes -p 5 --build # crawl 5 pages, build and score the apps
npx @manishtamang/dittu clone https://gole.codes -s tailwind # Tailwind classes where lossless, rest stays CSS
npx @manishtamang/dittu verify dittu-out/gole.codes --targets next
npx @manishtamang/dittu serve dittu-out/gole.codes

Update dittu

npx @manishtamang/dittu@latest setup

How dittu works

Most cloners screenshot a page and ask an LLM to redraw it. dittu copies what the browser actually rendered, then checks the result:

1. Capture: Chromium loads the page, scrolls it so lazy content and scroll reveals fire, then freezes JS timers so carousels hold still. A second render at 390 px records layout that JS computes per viewport.
2. Serialize the live DOM, not the server HTML. Next.js/React sites come out as their final markup without hydration scripts or RSC payloads. Nesting the HTML parser would restructure gets repaired, so React hydrates cleanly.
3. Keep the original CSS in cascade order, including CSS-in-JS rules that exist only in the CSSOM. Media queries, hover states and keyframes keep working.
4. Download every asset from the same session and rewrite URLs.
5. Export to a static preview, a Next.js App Router project (JSX) and an Astro project, split into section components.
6. Replay motion: recorded scroll reveals, Framer Motion animate calls and loops run again through a 2 KB runtime.
7. Verify: screenshot original and clone the same way at desktop and mobile and score them. --build scores the built apps, not just the preview.

Details: docs/architecture.md.

What you can clone

| Site type | Support | | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Marketing sites, landing pages, portfolios, docs | ✅ 99%+ typical | | Next.js / React / Vue / Svelte / Astro builds | ✅ post-hydration DOM | | Tailwind, CSS modules, styled-components, emotion | ✅ original CSS kept | | Scroll reveals (AOS, Framer Motion, GSAP, IntersectionObserver) | ✅ recorded and replayed | | Layout JS computes per viewport | ✅ mobile render → media-query overrides | | Multi-page sites | ✅ --pages N, internal links rewired, shared header/footer components | | Canvas / WebGL scenes | ⚠️ still image | | Carousels, tabs, menus, forms | ⚠️ look is copied, behaviour is not | | Pages behind login or bot protection | ❌ |

Benchmarks

| Site | Stack | Desktop | Mobile | Built apps | | -------------------------- | ------------------------ | ------------ | ---------- | --------------------- | | gole.codes | Next.js, heavy animation | 99.95% | 99.89% | Next.js + Astro: same | | nextjs.org | Next.js | 99.79% | 99.99% | 99.78–99.79% | | ui.shadcn.com | Next.js + Tailwind | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | | astro.build | Astro | 100.00% | 100.00% | | | manishtamang.com (3 pages) | Next.js | 99.89–99.99% | 99.80–100% | same |

Methodology and limits: docs/fidelity.md.

FAQ

Does it copy the backend? No. Data fetching, auth, APIs and form handling are not copied. You get the frontend, ready to wire to your own logic.

Why is the generated JSX full of {" "}? Whitespace between inline elements changes layout in HTML but is dropped by JSX. dittu keeps it explicit so the clone renders identically. Refactor freely, and re-run verify to check.

Can I get Tailwind classes instead of CSS? Yes: --styling tailwind. Every rule that can be expressed exactly becomes Tailwind utilities (sites built with Tailwind v4 keep their own classes); the rest stays CSS, so scores don't drop. See Tailwind output.

Is the 95% score honest? It's raw pixel identity over the full page, including height differences, at desktop and mobile. Diff images are saved next to the scores so you can check.

Can I clone any site I want? Technically mostly yes. Legally, see the disclaimer.

Documentation

• Installation
• CLI
• MCP server
• Architecture
• Fidelity and benchmarks
• Tailwind output
• Testing
• Roadmap

Disclaimer

dittu is for learning, prototyping, design references and migrating sites you own. Cloning a site doesn't give you rights to its brand, copy, images or code. Read DISCLAIMER.md.

Related projects

ditto.site by ion-design takes the same capture-what-the-browser-rendered approach as a hosted API and MCP service. dittu differs by running as a local CLI, keeping the site's original CSS by default (Tailwind output is opt-in and only where it renders identically), exporting Astro alongside Next.js, and scoring every clone with pixel-diff verification.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. Agents working in this repo: AGENTS.md.

License

MIT