How to Export Your Website From Wix
Wix does not have an export feature. There is no button, no settings page, no workaround inside the platform itself. If you want to take your content with you, you have to work around the platform entirely — and that's exactly what we'll show you how to do.
Why Wix Doesn't Let You Export
This isn't an accident. Wix's business model depends on keeping you on their platform. Once you've built a site in Wix's proprietary editor, your layouts, animations, and design are all stored in Wix's own format — not standard HTML. There's no direct export because there's nothing to export in a portable format.
This is a known frustration for millions of Wix users who want to move to WordPress, Squarespace, Shopify, or a custom-built site.
What You Can Actually Get From Wix
Despite the no-export policy, there are a few things you can retrieve directly from Wix:
- Blog posts — can be exported to CSV from your blog dashboard
- Store products — can be exported to CSV from your ecommerce dashboard
- Contact lists — can be exported from the CRM section
- Individual images — can be downloaded one at a time from the media library
How to Export the Actual Website
The only way to get a complete export of what your Wix website actually looks like — every page rendered with full styles, images, and layout — is to crawl the live published version.
Wix renders sites using JavaScript, which means a simple page download won't work. You need a tool that runs a real browser, scrolls through each page to trigger lazy-loaded content, and captures the fully rendered HTML along with every linked asset.
Website Sucker does exactly this. It uses a headless Chrome browser behind the scenes to render your Wix pages exactly as a visitor would see them, then downloads and packages everything into an offline ZIP.
Step-by-Step: Export Your Wix Site
Make sure your Wix site is published (not in preview mode) before starting.
- Open websitesucker.com in your browser
- Paste your published Wix URL — this must be the live site, not the editor
- Click Start — your first scrape is free up to 50 pages
- You'll see all HTML pages, images, CSS, and other assets listed
- Click Download ZIP to get your offline backup. $1.99 (or from $1.30/credit in packs) covers sites up to 500 MB (about 1,200 pages)
Wix-Specific Considerations
Wix sites have some quirks worth knowing about. Images are served from wixstatic.com with complex transformation URLs (different sizes, formats, crops). Website Sucker normalises these so you get one clean image file per image instead of dozens of variants.
Wix also uses custom elements like wix-iframe for embedded content. These are automatically converted to standard HTML iframes in the download so they render correctly offline.
Some interactive Wix features — booking forms, live chat, membership areas — require server-side logic that can't be captured in a static export. The download will contain the visual pages but those dynamic features won't function without a backend.
Using Your Wix Export
The most common use case is handing the exported HTML to a developer who will rebuild the site from scratch on a new platform, using the export as a visual reference. You can also host the static export cheaply on Netlify or GitHub Pages, or simply keep it as an archived copy.
Rebuilding somewhere new and only need your photos? Image Sucker collects every image from your site into one ZIP, at full size.
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