Squarespace locks you in
Hi, jturolla here.<p>I&#x27;ve been a user of Squarespace for over a year now, and I decided to move to Wordpress as the service got a little expensive for us in Brazil due to the exchange rate.
When I exported Squarespace data as XML to upload in Wordpress I noticed every image is still hosted at Squarespace, no biggie, right? I can just scrap the URLS and download every image and upload them again in wordpress... WRONG.<p>What happens it that Squarespace has so restrict access policies to their website that if I try to download even 4 images, one each 60 seconds (I used wget to do it), I get a 429 TOO MANY REQUESTS error, and squarespace blocks me in downloading my own images.<p>When requesting help from Squarespace customer service, they keep sending me over and over emails explaining stupid obvious things that are irrelevant to what I want: To download my assets from Squarespace!
The worst part was that after my site got disabled on Squarespace as I stopped paying, the images hosted at Squarespace vanished, breaking my entire new host, something the Customer Service told wasn&#x27;t going to happen, but DID HAPPEN.<p>Squarespace told my XML includes links that would be &quot;automagically&quot; uploaded to wordpress, which is a LIE, and can be confirmed on this URL: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;recordit.co&#x2F;n3VPJc3xOc
Customer support is not helping. They pretend to know &quot;issues&quot; that do not exist, and keep exchanging irrelevant messages, and I don&#x27;t know what to do, as they will not help me export my assets, and I refuse to expend an extreme amount of time download images one by one using chrome.<p>So, here is my recommendation: Do not use Squarespace, it will lock you in and not help you leave even by request on their customer service.