There is placement rate limiting right now to prevent a few folks from completely drowning out everyone else, so you may be running into that (if so, try again in ~15 minutes and it’ll probably work) but remember that you don’t need the editor to get your project: just go to your dashboard and download it from there, or use the download script to get all your projects with automatic asset downloading.
this really sucks i need to get into the editor to export my stuff to github
You can, but you don’t have to use the editor for that: you can also download your project, and unpack it locally. The app dir has a .git dir inside of it already, so you should be able to give it your github repo as a new named remote, and then push to that named remote.
the download button doesnt even work, its just brings me to an infinitely loading page
That… is not great, let me see what’s going on there
K, so it looks like the folks who are hammering Glitch are also affecting how fast the API can respond to download requests: they do still work, but it can take an inconveniently long time for the routing to go through because of all the network traffic those other folks are pushing.
I just had one project that took about a minute to finally go through, and another that only took 3 seconds, so it really depends on how hard Glitch is getting hit, I’m afraid.
man, i shouldnt have procrastinated downloading my stuff 
i have 9 projects to download…
I think people are just rushing to download “all of Glitch” ahead of the 8th including projects that aren’t theirs, by using the editor. However, you don’t lose access to your own projects on the 8th, you’ll still be able to go to your dashboard and download your own projects for the entirety of 2025. So once the 8th rolls around, their traffic is going to disappear again, and hopefully that makes downloads instant again, too.
its just that most of my projects need to go onto github and its just really simple and easy to click the export button, ive been using glitch for about 6 years now and its the only way i know how, i am NOT good with github lol
The export button basically performs the following steps, which you can run locally after download your projects, too:
- (make sure you created a repo on github for receiving your app code)
- (download the project and unpack it, then cd into its
appfolder) - run
git remote add origin git@github.com:yourusername/your-repo-name.git(this adds your github repository as a destination for git to pull from and push to) - run
git push origin master -f(which force-pushes the “master” branch to your github repository)
The only tricky bit is that if you want to do that locally, you’ll need to have an SSH key set up that you’ve told Github about in your personal settings over on github.com - github’s own documentation is pretty good in explaining how to do that if you haven’t done that though, over on Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account - GitHub Docs
(Also, this assumes that you don’t already have content in your repo)
alr, also do you know how to get my assets that i had in a few of my projects to download along with the code, i knew that you could convert assets stored on the project into actual files with wget in the terminal but since i cant exactly access the editor anymore is there a way to do that still???
If you also want your assets, use the download script instead of downloading your projects through the dashboard.
Note that it will download your assets, but it can’t perform text replacements in your source code so you would still need to do that yourself (there is no clean way to automatically do that given how many different ways assets can be linked/imported/loaded/etc in the various programming and markup languages).