Claude Chat Exporter

Export Claude.ai conversations to Text, Markdown, or JSON. Timestamps, YAML frontmatter, auto-scroll, and thinking blocks.

Claude Chat Exporter — Save Any Claude.ai Conversation in One Click Export any Claude.ai conversation as a clean Text file, Markdown document, or structured JSON — directly from your Chrome toolbar. No account needed, no server, nothing uploaded. Every export runs 100% in your browser. Whether you use Claude for coding, research, writing, or problem-solving, Claude Chat Exporter gives you a permanent, portable copy of every conversation — formatted and ready for your favorite tools. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU CAN EXPORT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▸ Plain Text (.txt) — Clean, readable output with no markup. Perfect for pasting into any app, sharing via email, or long-term archiving. ▸ Markdown (.md) — Structured Markdown with YAML frontmatter (title, date, URL). Ready to drop straight into Obsidian, Notion, Logseq, Bear, VS Code, or any Markdown-based notes app. ▸ JSON (.json) — Structured conversation data with roles, timestamps, and content blocks. Ideal for developers, researchers, or anyone building data pipelines from their Claude conversations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Auto-Scroll to Load All Messages Claude.ai renders messages lazily — only what's visible is in the DOM. Before exporting, the extension automatically scrolls through the full thread to load every single message, so nothing gets missed — even in conversations hundreds of messages long. Thinking Blocks Export Claude's extended thinking mode shows the model's step-by-step reasoning. Claude Chat Exporter lets you capture this reasoning alongside the final response. Toggle thinking blocks on or off — when enabled, they appear as collapsible sections in Markdown, or clearly labelled blocks in Text and JSON. Timestamps Every human message carries a precise timestamp pulled directly from the Claude API. Timestamps are embedded in your export, giving you a full chronological record of when each part of the conversation happened. Metadata & YAML Frontmatter Every Markdown export includes a YAML frontmatter block at the top — conversation title, export date, and source URL — making it immediately usable in note-taking apps like Obsidian that index frontmatter for search and organization. Copy to Clipboard Don't want a file? Hit the clipboard button to copy the entire conversation in your chosen format directly to your clipboard. No download prompt, no file manager — just paste wherever you need it. 100% Private — Runs Locally No servers. No cloud sync. No data collection. Your conversation never leaves your device. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO IS THIS FOR? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Researchers & Writers — Archive Claude conversations for reference, citation, or to build on later in long-form documents. Developers — Export as structured JSON for integration into apps, scripts, or knowledge bases. Note-Takers & PKM Users — Export directly to Obsidian, Notion, Logseq, or Roam with clean Markdown and frontmatter already formatted. Students — Save AI-assisted study sessions, problem sets, and explanations as readable, searchable files. Teams — Share conversation exports with colleagues as standalone documents without needing a Claude account. Prompt Engineers — Capture full reasoning chains including thinking blocks to study, iterate, and refine your prompts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Open any conversation on claude.ai 2. Click the Claude Chat Exporter icon in your Chrome toolbar 3. Choose your format: Text, Markdown, or JSON 4. Toggle your options — auto-scroll, timestamps, frontmatter, thinking blocks, tool use 5. Click "Export Conversation" — the file downloads instantly OR click the clipboard icon to copy directly No login. No API key. No configuration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY & SECURITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ 100% local processing — your conversation never leaves your device ✔ No servers — there is no backend, no cloud sync, no data collection ✔ No account required — works with your existing Claude.ai login ✔ No tracking — no analytics, no telemetry, no third-party scripts ✔ Minimal permissions — access restricted to claude.ai only ✔ Open source — full code available on GitHub for inspection ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPORT FORMATS IN DETAIL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Markdown Export — YAML frontmatter: title, date, conversation URL — Human messages and Claude responses clearly labelled — Timestamps on every human message — Thinking blocks as collapsible <details> sections — Tool calls and results included (toggleable) — Artifacts and code Claude creates always preserved JSON Export Structured array of message objects: { "role": "human" | "assistant", "timestamp": "...", "content": "...", "thinking": "..." } Clean, predictable schema — easy to parse, filter, and process. Plain Text Export Stripped of all markup. Roles labelled, messages separated clearly. The most portable format — readable in every app on every device. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ COMPATIBILITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ — Works on all Claude.ai conversation pages — Compatible with Claude Free, Claude Pro, and Claude for Teams — Supports conversations with extended thinking (thinking blocks) — Supports tool use and artifacts — Works on threads of any length — from single exchanges to multi-hour sessions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ activeTab — checks you're on a Claude.ai page before enabling the UI scripting — runs the export engine locally on the active tab (nothing is sent out) downloads — saves the exported file to your device Host permission (claude.ai only) — the extension cannot activate on any other website ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Does this work with long conversations? Yes. Auto-scroll loads every message — including lazily-rendered ones — before building the export. Works reliably on threads of any length. Can I export Claude's reasoning / thinking? Yes. Enable the Thinking Blocks toggle to include Claude's extended reasoning in your export. Renders as a collapsible section in Markdown. Is my conversation data safe? Completely. The extension reads your conversation locally and builds the file on your device. Nothing is ever sent to any server. Do I need a Claude Pro subscription? No. Works with any Claude.ai account, including free accounts. Can I use the Markdown output in Obsidian? Yes. The Markdown export is specifically designed for knowledge management apps. The YAML frontmatter (title, date, URL) is fully compatible with Obsidian's metadata system. Does it export tool results and artifacts? Yes. Enable the Tool Use toggle to include tool calls and their results. Artifacts — code blocks and documents Claude creates — are always included. Can I copy instead of downloading a file? Yes. The clipboard button next to the Export button copies the full conversation in your chosen format directly to your clipboard. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Claude Chat Exporter is an independent tool built for power users of Claude.ai. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. For support or to report an issue, visit the GitHub repository.