Export your data
Your comments are your data. Every Connect site has a one-click export that downloads everything as a single JSON file, on every plan, free included, with no throttling and no "contact sales". Gating data exit would contradict everything else this product claims about data ownership, so it is not gated.
How to export
In the dashboard, open your site's Import & export page and click Export all comments (JSON). The download starts immediately.
What the file contains
The complete comment data of the site: every thread with its page URL and identifier, and every comment with author name, content (both the original Markdown and the rendered HTML), status, reply relationship, and timestamps. Rejected and spam comments are included with their status, so the export reflects the full moderation state, not just the public view.
It is a plain, readable JSON structure. You can archive it, inspect it with any tool, or transform it for another system.
What to use it for
- Backups. Comments are the one part of a static site not in your git repository. A periodic export closes that gap.
- Leaving. If you move to another comment system someday, this file is your migration source. No export request, no waiting period.
- Rendering comments statically. Some site owners bake comments into their HTML at build time for archival or SEO purposes. The export gives you everything needed to experiment with that today; a first-class build-time API is on the longer-term list.
If you need the export in a different shape for a specific migration target, tell us what you are moving to.