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Extract fonts, color palettes, images, SVGs, videos, and other assets from any website in seconds.
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Save websites locally or to the cloud, organize projects, and access them anytime from your dashboard.
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Export reusable components, CSS variables, and design tokens for faster design and development workflows.
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Export reusable components, CSS variables, and design tokens for faster design and development workflows.
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Capture any website in one click
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Inspiration
As a product designer, I often found myself wanting to inspect websites beyond what browser DevTools offered. I wanted a faster way to save complete websites for inspiration, extract assets, document design systems, and understand how products were built—all without manually digging through source code.
Most existing tools solved only one problem. Some downloaded websites. Others inspected CSS. None combined downloading, design analysis, accessibility insights, AI-ready exports, and developer workflows into one experience.
That's why I built ZipIt.
What it does
ZipIt transforms any website into a downloadable ZIP while also acting as a powerful design and developer toolkit.
Features
- 🌐 Download complete websites as ZIP files
- 🎨 Extract images, icons, videos, fonts, SVGs, and Lottie animations
- 📦 Export design tokens and CSS variables
- 🎯 Inspect typography, colors, spacing, and components
- ♿ Generate accessibility audits
- 📄 Export beautiful PDF reports
- 🤖 Generate AI prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
- 🔍 Detect the technologies powering a website
- 💾 Save projects locally or to the cloud
Whether you're a designer, developer, founder, or student, ZipIt makes learning from the web dramatically easier.
How we built it
ZipIt is built as a Chrome Extension using modern web technologies.
Tech Stack
- React
- TypeScript
- Vite
- Tailwind CSS
- Chrome Extension Manifest V3
- Chrome Side Panel API
- IndexedDB
- Cloudflare R2
- Node.js
The extension injects content scripts to analyze webpages, communicates through a background service worker, extracts assets, reconstructs downloadable projects, and generates reports directly in the browser.
Challenges we ran into
Building a website downloader that works reliably across thousands of modern websites was incredibly challenging.
Some of the biggest hurdles included:
- Handling React, Vue, and Next.js applications
- Rewriting relative asset paths
- Extracting lazy-loaded resources
- Working around CORS restrictions
- Detecting design tokens consistently
- Packaging websites while preserving structure
- Optimizing performance for large websites
Each challenge required multiple iterations and extensive testing across many real-world sites.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Built a production-ready Chrome Extension
- Successfully downloads and analyzes modern websites
- Generates AI-ready website documentation
- Exports design system reports
- Helps designers and developers understand websites in minutes instead of hours
- Featured on the Chrome Web Store
- Growing community of active users and paying customers
What we learned
Building ZipIt taught us that downloading a website is only a small part of the workflow.
Designers want design systems.
Developers want structure.
Founders want competitive insights.
AI users want clean prompts.
By combining all of these into one tool, we created something significantly more useful than a traditional website downloader.
What's next for ZipIt
We're continuing to expand ZipIt with:
- AI-powered website analysis
- Figma integration
- Better design token exports
- Component detection
- Team collaboration
- More browser support
- Advanced accessibility reports
- Automated UX audits
Our goal is to become the all-in-one toolkit for understanding, documenting, and learning from any website.
