Export Strikingly Website: Full HTML Copy + Exit Checklist

You cannot export a Strikingly website from inside Strikingly. There is no HTML export and no access to the site's files, and the help center suggests screenshots or PDFs instead. You can still leave with nearly everything. Export your store products and form responses from the dashboard, keep or move your domain, and download the live site as a ZIP of HTML pages with their images, CSS and scripts. That ZIP opens offline and can be hosted elsewhere. If the site is already deleted, you may be able to restore it from the Wayback Machine.

Can you export a Strikingly website? What Strikingly officially offers

Strikingly is a hosted builder. Your pages are generated by Strikingly's platform rather than stored as files you own, and that is why the platform has no "download site" button. Its support articles say three things:

• There is no way to export a site or download its HTML files.
• If you want a record of the design, take screenshots or convert pages to PDF. They also admit the result may not print well.
• If you move to another platform, you will have to rebuild the site there.

All of that is true of the editor, but it isn't the whole picture. A published Strikingly site is a set of public web pages, and public pages can be saved. You also own the data Strikingly lets you export. Put together, those give you a workable exit plan.

What you can take out of Strikingly yourself

Do these exports first, while your account and plan are still active. They cover data that a copy of the public pages does not include.

Store products as CSV

If you run a Simple Store, look in the store's product management screen for a product export. It produces a spreadsheet file (CSV) with product names, descriptions, prices and similar fields. Most e-commerce platforms can import a CSV, though you will usually need to rename columns to match their template. Product images may not be included as files in the CSV. The offline copy described below does capture the images shown on your product pages, so the two together cover more than either one alone. Order history and customer details are separate from the product list. Export or record them too if your store dashboard offers it.

Form responses and contacts

Submissions from contact forms, newsletter sign-ups and similar forms are collected in the Audience section of the dashboard. Export them as a CSV before you cancel. Once the site or plan is gone, this list is the only copy of those messages and email addresses. If you send newsletters, check that your new email tool lets you import contacts, and that you have consent records to match the rules where you operate.

Your domain

What you do here depends on where the domain was registered:

• Bought through Strikingly: the domain is registered on your behalf. Before you cancel, find out from Strikingly's domain settings or support how to transfer it out or change its DNS. Note the renewal date so it does not lapse during the move.
• Registered elsewhere (at a registrar you pay directly): it already belongs to you. When you move, you only change the DNS records at your registrar to point at the new host.

Strikingly's exact rules for domains, cancellations and downgrades can change. Read their current help article on this before you hit cancel.

How to export a Strikingly website as an offline HTML copy (ZIP)

To download a Strikingly site as HTML, you save the published site the way a browser sees it: every page plus the images, stylesheets, scripts and fonts it loads. Website Downloader does this in the browser and hands you one ZIP file. You don't install anything, and your computer can be switched off while the crawl runs.

1. Copy your live address. Use the published URL, either your custom domain or the yourname.strikingly.com address. Don't use the editor link, because pages behind a login are not downloaded.
2. Run a free test first. Paste the address on the home page and start the download. No account is needed. The free plan covers up to 100 subpages, which is enough for most Strikingly sites, since many are one-page sites with a handful of blog posts.
3. Watch the progress. The page count updates live. A site that refuses automated downloads, for example with a 403 response, is reported as such instead of giving you an empty archive.
4. Download and open the ZIP. Unzip it and open index.html in any browser. Click through the navigation, blog posts and product pages.
5. Check that the content is really there. Some builders assemble parts of a page in the browser with JavaScript. If a section shows up empty offline but is full on the live site, that content was rendered client-side. This is why you run the free test before relying on the copy.
6. Go bigger if needed. If the site has more than 100 pages (a large blog or a big store, say), the Single Site plan is a one-time 7.99 EUR. It covers up to 5,000 subpages and a 2 GB archive, and the archive is kept for 30 days. The free archive is kept for 1 day, so download it promptly.

If images or styling look broken when you open the copy, see Downloaded Website Missing Images and CSS? How to Fix It. Most of the time the cause is how the files were opened, not what was downloaded. For a general walkthrough of the ZIP approach, read Download a Website as ZIP Online.

Will a downloaded Strikingly site still work offline?

The copy works as a set of static files. Anything that needs Strikingly's servers to respond will not work. Expect this:

• Works: page layouts, text, images, fonts, navigation between pages, scroll animations driven by downloaded scripts, blog post pages, and product pages as display pages.
• Does not work: contact and sign-up forms (nowhere to send the data), store cart and checkout, blog comments, site search, membership or login areas, and any widget that fetches live data from a server.
• Check carefully: sections that Strikingly renders with JavaScript, and embedded third-party content such as maps or videos. Embeds from other services usually still need an internet connection.

For a backup or archive, this is usually exactly what you want: a faithful, browsable record of the site as it looked. For a working site on a new host, treat forms and the store as things you will replace.

How to move a Strikingly site to another host

There are two realistic paths, and the files you exported above serve both.

Host the static copy

The ZIP contains ordinary HTML, CSS, JavaScript and image files. You can upload them to any static hosting service or ordinary web hosting and point your domain at it. This suits portfolios, event pages and small business sites that rarely change. A few practical points:

• Replace forms with a third-party form service or a plain email link.
• Replace the store with a checkout from your new platform, or link to one.
• To edit text, you'll be editing HTML files directly. That's fine for small changes, but tedious for frequent ones.
• The theme code and scripts in the copy come from Strikingly. Your own text and images are yours, but read Strikingly's terms before publishing their template code elsewhere. If in doubt, ask a lawyer. This article is not legal advice.

Rebuild on a new builder, using the copy as the blueprint

If you want to keep editing visually, rebuild on the new platform. Use the offline copy as your reference for structure, wording and images, so you don't have to work from memory or screenshots. Import the product CSV into the new store and the contact CSV into your email tool. Then switch the domain's DNS once the new site is live, so visitors never land on a dead page.

The same exit pattern applies to other hosted builders. See How to Download a Wix Website or Download Weebly Website if you manage sites there too.

Strikingly site already deleted? Restore it from the Wayback Machine

If the site is already gone because the plan expired, the account was closed or the domain lapsed, the live-site download no longer works. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine may still hold captures of it, especially if the site was public for a while and linked from elsewhere.

1. Look up your old address on archive.org and see which dates were captured. Pick a capture from before the site went offline.
2. Use the Wayback Machine downloader to turn that capture into a ZIP. The archive.org playback toolbar and the links back to archive.org are removed, so the result reads like your original site.
3. A restore of up to 100 pages is free. Larger sites take the one-time Wayback Restore at 14.99 EUR, which covers up to 5,000 subpages and keeps the archive for 30 days. Monthly plans do not include restores.

Be realistic about what to expect. The archive only has what it captured, so some pages or images may be missing, and form submissions or store data were never public to begin with. For a fuller walkthrough, see Restore Website from Wayback Machine.

Other options compared

If you would rather use a command-line tool, wget vs HTTrack vs Online Website Downloader covers the trade-offs.

FAQ

Can I get my Strikingly site's HTML files?

Not from Strikingly itself. The platform does not give you access to the underlying files. You can get the HTML as it is published by downloading the live site, which produces real HTML, CSS, JavaScript and image files in a ZIP.

What happens to my Strikingly site and domain if I cancel or downgrade?

Premium features stop working on a downgrade, and a cancelled site can go offline. A domain bought through Strikingly needs to be transferred or managed before it expires. Policies change, so check Strikingly's current help articles. Finish your CSV exports and offline copy before you make the change.

Can I move my Strikingly store products to a new platform?

Yes, as data. Export the product list as a CSV and import it into the new store, adjusting columns to that platform's template. The offline copy keeps your product pages and images as a visual reference, but the cart and checkout have to be set up on the new platform.

Can I clone a Strikingly site to another account or host?

Duplicating within Strikingly keeps the copy on Strikingly. To get it onto another host, download the published site as a ZIP and upload the files there. Then replace forms and the store with services that run on the new host.

How do I recover a Strikingly site that was already deleted?

Check whether the Internet Archive captured it, then restore a capture with the Wayback Machine downloader. It's free up to 100 pages. Only pages the archive saved can be recovered, and form responses or store records cannot.