Download a Claude artifact

How to download a Claude artifact, including a Claude Design artifact

Most Claude artifacts leave through one button, Export, and the formats depend on what you made. Here is each kind, step by step: documents, decks, Claude Design, the code in an older chat artifact, and how to print or save one as a PDF.

What spacesheep addsA link you control for what Claude makes, so nobody needs the file. You can still download it as a PDF or HTML at any time.

Checked against the products’ own help pages on . Sources

The short answer, by what you made

What you madeHow to get the fileWhat you get
A document (Docs)Open it and click ExportWord, PDF, Markdown or Google Docs
A deck (Slides)Open it and click ExportPowerPoint or PDF, or editable Google Slides
A Claude Design artifactExport, in the upper right corner of the projectA .zip, PDF, PPTX, standalone HTML or Google Slides
An animation (Motion, beta)ExportMP4 video
A legacy artifact (made in a chat before 16 September 2026)The controls at the top of the artifact panelIts code to view or copy, or a download
A Claude Code artifactNo download command is documentedThe page is an HTML or Markdown file Claude wrote on your computer

Claude's help page names export formats for Docs, Slides, Design and Motion only. For other kinds, such as a dashboard, it describes no export.

Download a Claude document or deck, step by step

  1. Open the artifact. Everything you make is saved to the Artifacts tab in Claude's sidebar.
  2. Click Export. Claude's help page gives this one button for artifacts made from a template.
  3. Pick the format. A doc exports to Word, PDF, Markdown or Google Docs. A deck exports to PowerPoint or PDF, or goes straight to Google Slides as editable files.
On a phone? Claude's help page says the iOS and Android apps can create, view and edit artifacts. It doesn't mention exporting there, so use Claude on the web or the desktop app if you can't find Export.

How to download a Claude Design artifact

  1. Open the design project. Claude Design is on every plan, Free to Enterprise.
  2. Click Export in the upper right corner.
  3. Choose a file: Download as .zip, Export as PDF, Export as PPTX, or Export as standalone HTML. Export to Google Slides sends it there instead of downloading.
  4. Or send it on: the same menu sends a design to Canva, Lovable, Netlify, Vercel, v0 and other tools, or hands it to Claude Code to build.

Standalone HTML is the one to pick for an interactive prototype you want to open in a browser or host somewhere. The .zip is the project's files.

Still on the standalone Claude Design site? It closes on 14 December 2026. To download a project there, open it, click Share, choose Project HTML (for a slide deck it is under "More formats and apps"), keep Project archive selected and click Export. You get a .zip of every file in the project; chats and comments aren't included. Claude says a download of all your projects at once is rolling out on that site's home page.

Download the code or HTML from an artifact

  • A legacy artifact (made in a chat before 16 September 2026): use the controls at the top of the artifact panel to view the code, copy the content, or download it. Claude's help page doesn't list the file types.
  • Someone else's published legacy artifact: open it and click Copy to copy its code. This is for people signed in on Free, Pro, Max or Ultra.
  • A design or prototype: Export as standalone HTML gives one HTML file, and Download as .zip gives the project files.
  • A file Claude created in a chat (a spreadsheet, a document, a PDF): download it directly from the conversation, or save it to Google Drive. The limit is 30 MB per file.
  • A Claude Code artifact: Claude Code's docs give no download command. Claude writes the page to an HTML or Markdown file before publishing it, in a temporary directory unless you name a location, so ask Claude to save it in your project folder.

Have the HTML file and want it online again? See how to turn an HTML file into a website.

How to print a Claude artifact or save it as a PDF

Claude's help pages don't mention printing, and there is no Print button in them. The documented way is to export a PDF and print that file.

  • Docs, Slides and Design: click Export and choose PDF, then print the PDF.
  • A design made with /design in Claude Code: each artboard exports as a PNG or a PDF.
  • Everything else: no PDF export is described. Your browser's own Print may work on what is on screen, but Claude's pages don't cover it.

What you can't download

  • A file from an artifact you can only view. With "Can view" you can open it and read comments. Downloading the files an artifact offers needs Commenter or Can edit.
  • Files through an ordinary download link in a Claude Code artifact. The viewer on claude.ai blocks any download the page starts itself; a file has to come through a download control on the page, such as a button.
  • Live data. An artifact that reads your connected apps fetches that data for each viewer through their own connection, so it isn't part of an exported file.
  • Chats and comments from standalone Claude Design. A project download holds files only.
  • A deleted Claude Code artifact. Its link stops working for everyone, including you.

What a downloaded file loses, and keeping a link instead

  • The link. A file has no address. Whoever needs it has to be sent a copy.
  • Updates. An export is a copy of that moment. Change the artifact and every file you sent is out of date.
  • Sharing and comments. Who can open it, and what they said about it, stay behind in Claude.

If you were downloading the artifact to send it to someone, a link does that better. Published with spacesheep, it lives at its own link, you pick who opens it, and any AI you connect can keep editing it. The file is still there when you want it: a space's menu has Download, as a PDF or as the page's HTML.

Related: how to share a Claude artifact and who can open it, and how to delete or unpublish one once you have your copy. To see what people keep at a public link, browse the public AI artifact gallery.

Questions

Asked often

How do I download a Claude Design artifact?

Open the design project and click Export in the upper right corner. Choose Download as .zip, Export as PDF, Export as PPTX or Export as standalone HTML, or send it to Google Slides, Canva and other tools. Claude Design is on every plan.

How do I download artifacts from Claude?

Open the artifact and click Export. Docs export to Word, PDF, Markdown or Google Docs, decks to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides, and designs to a .zip, PDF, PowerPoint or standalone HTML. For a legacy artifact made in a chat before 16 September 2026, use the controls at the top of the artifact panel.

How do I print a Claude artifact?

Claude's help pages don't mention printing. Export the artifact as a PDF (Docs, Slides and Design all have it under Export) and print that file.

Can I save a Claude artifact as HTML?

A design or prototype exports as standalone HTML from the Export button. A legacy chat artifact can be downloaded, or its code copied, from the controls at the top of the artifact panel. Claude Code writes its artifacts as an HTML or Markdown file on your computer before publishing them.

How do I download the code from a Claude artifact?

For a legacy artifact, the controls at the top of the artifact panel let you view the code, copy it or download it. For a published legacy artifact someone else made, open it and click Copy. For a design, Download as .zip gives the project files.

Can someone I shared a Claude artifact with download it?

Claude's sharing page says a Commenter or editor can download any files the artifact offers, and someone with Can view can only open it and read comments. It doesn't describe a viewer exporting the artifact itself.

Can I download all my Claude Design projects at once?

On the standalone Claude Design site, which closes on 14 December 2026, Claude says a download of all the projects you own is rolling out on its home page, with files but not chats or comments. Until you have it, export each project as a .zip from Share, Project HTML.

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