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Using the CLI to download existing web site and its assets?

silvacarl — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:47:35 GMT

Is there a simple way to use the CLI to download existing web site and its assets?

So they can be worked on locally, then re-uploaded?

Re: Using the CLI to download existing web site and its assets?

silvacarl — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:49:15 GMT

I guess in addition to that, can i develop a site locally and then when its ready upload it?

Re: Using the CLI to download existing web site and its assets?

Anton — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 13:59:28 GMT

Hi @silvacarl,

to get things right. HubSpot got templates/layouts and websites/landing-pages/thank-you-pages which are based on those templates/layouts.

You can download/upload

templates/layouts
assets from the file-manager
HubDB tables(if you got them)

via CLI.

You can't download/upload pages that are build with the templates/layouts.

But you can export all websites/landing-pages/thank-you-pages but unfortunately not reupload them back to HubSpot.

Additional information:

You could build yourself an "overengineered" API solution for page editing but this is an overkill imo. ( still in beta right now)

To sum up things:

The best-pracitse workflow is:

Create templates that you'd like to use mutliple times in CLI/locally and upload them to HubSpot - not every single page needs its own template
Build your pages directly in HubSpot - you don't have an easy solution to do this locally

hope this helps,

best,

Anton

Re: Using the CLI to download existing web site and its assets?

silvacarl — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:45:25 GMT

thank you! i will check out those beta APIs.

being able to use all of our production tools, testing locally, and then uploading is what we need to do. The drag and drop is nice, but we want to create a large site with many custom features, so doing it on a local dev machine is easier, then uploading.

Re: Using the CLI to download existing web site and its assets?

silvacarl — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:46:38 GMT

also, what you poinetd to is EXACTLY what we wanted to find! LOL! even if it is in beta, we can try it out.

Re: Using the CLI to download existing web site and its assets?

Anton — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:58:04 GMT

I wouldn't recomend this. The CLI/local environment shouldn't be used for this.

The optimal workflow should - as already mentioned - be:

create a developer account(it's free)
set up a local dev environment
connect the live and dev environment to the local one
develop(and test) a so called theme for your company/project locally
push it to the dev environment
test it (build some pages with lorem ipsum/try your custom modules...)
optimize the code after the test
return to step6 as long as you want
when finished push the latest state to the live environtment
build pages in the live environment
publish the pages
done

hope this helps

best,

Anton