Show HN: Pablo – a Chrome extension that copies UI from any website

www.usepablo.dev

33 points by rayansaleh 3 days ago

Pablo is a Chrome extension that copies the HTML and CSS behind any element you hover.

It captures computed styles, fonts (with @font-face and Google Fonts links), CSS keyframes, and animation props from GSAP and Framer Motion. The output is structured so it pastes cleanly into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex when you want to rebuild a component in your own stack.

Manifest v3, no host permissions, no backend. Free.

https://usepablo.dev

Happy to answer questions about how the extraction works, and would love to hear about sites where the output breaks.

hydra-f 15 hours ago

Models still introduce hallucinations in the copy, which proves to be rather hard to control, even with the Pablo tool's output. Still, miles better than what you can achieve by normal prompting.

The website I tried was https://maximeheckel.com/, which it handled with quite varying degrees of success (poorly on the heavier parts of it).

apeters 3 days ago

Why is every LLM created website so shitty? They all have this messed up margin and padding. Especially on mobile. Everything is just badly appended and unorganized. Feels like many different parts being glued together.

  • pixel_popping 2 days ago

    I don't understand why users aren't just putting real websites as "source" instead of asking the agent from scratch, it makes no-sense, why not leverage what's already great and change all the tones, images and so-on?

pdrbrnd 13 hours ago

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

jaysyrk 3 days ago

This is really cool!! When you say Ui.. does that include assets as well?

smokedetector1 3 days ago

Really cool! Why are some things subtly different?

jaen 3 days ago

err... copyright-violation-as-a-service?

  • xingped 2 days ago

    Thieves be thieving. LLMs proved how broken and ineffectual copyright enforcement is, so why not join the party? It's so pathetic...