Google Chat Exporter

Export Google Chat conversations to TXT or HTML with media. 100% private — no data leaves your browser.

🚀 Google Chat Exporter – The Ultimate Backup & Archiving Tool for Google Chat! Export your Google Chat conversations, spaces, and media effortlessly. Whether you need a clean, readable Plain Text (.txt) transcript or a rich, interactive HTML archive (.html + .zip) complete with photos, files, and video clips, Google Chat Exporter does it all in seconds — 100% locally and privately in your browser. Works seamlessly on Google Chrome, Brave, Microsoft Edge, and across standalone chat.google.com, Gmail-embedded Chat, and standalone PWA desktop app windows! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🆕 WHAT’S NEW IN V2.1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Incremental Backups: Export only new messages since your last export! Saves massive time on active chats and spaces by picking up right where you left off. ⚡ 4× Faster Media Downloads: Supercharged concurrent media download engine archives images, videos, and attachments in a fraction of the time. 🛑 On-Demand Cancel Button: Stop or abort an export anytime directly from the floating HUD or the extension popup without freezing or reloading your page. 🚀 70% Faster History Scanning: Intelligent virtual DOM extraction cache ensures silky-smooth scrolling and lower memory consumption on giant chat histories. 🔒 Link & Media Security Hardening: Advanced sanitization keeps your exported archives completely safe and offline-ready. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔑 KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📄 Dual Export Formats: • Interactive HTML (.html + .zip): An exact, beautiful replica of your chat with speech bubbles, profile pictures, embedded images, audio voice notes, video previews, and downloadable files. • Clean Plain Text (.txt): A clean, chronological log with sender names, timestamps, and message formatting preserved. ⏱️ Smart Incremental Export: • Remembers your last export checkpoint per conversation so you only back up new messages. • One-click toggle between incremental and full complete history re-scan. 🖼️ Full Media & Attachment Extraction: • Parallel download engine automatically fetches photos, GIFs, audio recordings, video clips, and document attachments (PDFs, docs, spreadsheets, zip archives) into an organized media folder. • Captures Google Meet call links and interactive bot card messages (alerts, webhooks). ⚡ Auto-Scroll Full History: • Automatically scrolls up through the conversation to load older history so you never miss past messages. 🌐 Universal Browser & App Support: • Works in regular browser tabs (chat.google.com and mail.google.com). • Works in Google Chat installed as a Progressive Web App (PWA) / standalone desktop window. • Fully compatible with Brave, Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium browsers. 🖱️ Two Convenient Ways to Export: • Toolbar Popup: Click the extension icon to view conversation status, choose TXT or HTML, toggle incremental backup, toggle media download, and export with 1 click. • Context Menu: Right-click anywhere within a chat to export directly from the right-click menu. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 100% PRIVATE & SECURE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Your privacy is our highest priority: • Zero External Servers: All message parsing, media downloading, and ZIP generation happen strictly on your machine. • No Tracking or Telemetry: No analytics, cookies, or tracking scripts. • No Account Needed: Operates directly in your browser session using standard local browser APIs. • Your data never leaves your computer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ HOW TO USE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Open Google Chat (chat.google.com), Gmail Chat, or your Google Chat PWA desktop window. 2. Navigate to any direct message or space. 3. Export using your preferred method: • Option A (Popup): Click the Google Chat Exporter icon in your toolbar, select HTML or TXT, choose whether to do an incremental or full export, and click "Export Current Conversation". • Option B (Right-Click): Right-click anywhere inside the chat message area and select "📄 Export Chat as TXT" or "🌐 Export Chat as HTML (with media)". 4. Watch the animated progress card as it scrolls and bundles your chat (you can click "Cancel" at any time if needed). 5. Your file (.txt or .zip) downloads automatically to your Downloads folder! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 PERFECT FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Teams & Businesses: Archive project discussions, client agreements, and handover notes. • Compliance & Legal: Create verifiable offline records of work conversations. • Students & Researchers: Save group study sessions, resources, and shared links. • Personal Backup: Keep permanent offline copies of memorable chats with family and colleagues. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 LIGHTWEIGHT, FAST & RELIABLE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Built with modern Manifest V3 standards. No bloat, no background battery drain, just a blazing-fast, secure tool built for daily productivity. Download Google Chat Exporter today and keep your conversations safe! 🗃️💬