About six months ago, someone asked whether there are AI tools capable of rebuilding websites using a preferred page builder. Back then, the consensus seemed to be that it wasn't possible. However, AI technologies are advancing quickly, and I'd like to see if anyone has managed to use AI for this purpose, even partially. Just to clarify, I'm not interested in the term "page builder" at all; think of it as a framework instead. My goal is to extract repeated structures from a website and separate them from the content. I want to break down a site into a collection of shared templates along with the content blocks that utilize those templates.
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Not much has changed yet. The go-to tools have been Claude, Cursor, Codex, and Antigravity, and diehard users are pretty resistant to switch. It's like trying to convert someone's religion, you know? People just stick to what they know.
I've had some success using Claude for this task! I feed it the HTML and ask it to pinpoint repeated patterns and extract them as reusable components. It's not perfect, but it’s definitely improved compared to six months ago. Just a tip: do it page by page rather than dumping the whole site at once.
But why page by page? Wouldn't patterns be across multiple pages?