How to Export Squarespace to Static HTML

The 2026 Technical Migration Guide

If you are looking to break free from high subscription costs, porting your site to a static format is the smartest move you can make. However, Squarespace is a "walled garden." They do not provide a simple button to download your website's code.

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The DIY Guide: Exporting Squarespace Manually

If you have a fair bit of technical knowledge and want to have a crack at this yourself, follow this guide to convert your dynamic site into a standalone HTML/CSS/JS package.

Prerequisites

Terminal/Command Prompt: You will need to use the command line.
Wget: A tool for "mirroring" web content. (Mac users: brew install wget).
Python 3: To run the image-fix script provided below.

Step 1: Site Preparation

Squarespace uses "Ajax loading" and complex animations that can confuse a simple scraper.

Disable Ajax (Version 7.0): Go to Design > Site Styles and uncheck "Enable Ajax Loading."
Disable Animations (Version 7.1): Go to Design > Site Styles > Animations and set the style to "None."
Set to Public: Ensure your site is not password-protected during the process.

Step 2: The Extraction Command

Open your terminal and run the following command. This tells your computer to crawl your site and download every file it needs to function offline.

wget \

  --mirror \

  --page-requisites \

  --adjust-extension \

  --span-hosts \

  --domains=yoursite.com,images.squarespace-cdn.com,static.squarespace.com \

  --no-parent \

  --convert-links \

  --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) Chrome/91.0.4472.124" \

  -P ./squarespace-static \

  https://yoursite.com

Step 3: Fixing the "Lazy Load" Images

Squarespace uses a technique called "Lazy Loading," which means it only loads tiny, blurry placeholders until a user scrolls down. A standard download will only grab these blurry images.

You will need to run a Python script to find the high-resolution data-src links in the code, download the real images, and swap them back into your HTML files.

Step 4: Manual Patches & Cleanup

Once you have your files, you will notice that certain things have stopped working:

Forms

Since there is no longer a Squarespace server to "catch" the data, your contact forms will break. You must replace the form action with a service like Formspree or Netlify Forms.

Search

Static sites don't have a built-in search database. You will need to replace the search bar with a Google Custom Search snippet or remove it entirely.

Code Bloat: You should manually remove script tags referencing squarespace-analytics or user-account-core to prevent errors in the browser console.

Summary: Is it worth the effort?

Manually exporting a site is a time-consuming process that requires a lot of "Find and Replace" work to get the links and images functioning correctly.

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