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Google Chat Exporter

by Vishwas R Β· Communication
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

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

Users
1,000
0 in 30 days
Rating
3.0 / 5
+0.67 in 30 days
Ratings
5
+2 in 30 days
Store rank
#29K
#24K among extensions
Version
2.1.0
updated 23 Sep 2026

Users

monthly, 18 months
05001,000May 2025Feb 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 1,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 18 months
025May 2025Feb 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 5 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Google Chat Exporter

πŸš€ 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 β€” 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! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ†• 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. ⚑ 4Γ— Faster Media Downloads: Supercharged concurrent media download engine archives images, videos, and attachments in a fraction of the time. πŸ›‘ 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. πŸš€ 70% Faster History Scanning: Intelligent virtual DOM extraction cache ensures silky-smooth scrolling and lower memory consumption on giant chat histories. πŸ”’ Link & Media Security Hardening: Advanced sanitization keeps your exported archives completely safe and offline-ready. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ”‘ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ“„ Dual Export Formats: β€’ 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. β€’ Clean Plain Text (.txt): A clean, chronological log with sender names, timestamps, and message formatting preserved. ⏱️ Smart Incremental Export: β€’ Remembers your last export checkpoint per conversation so you only back up new messages. β€’ One-click toggle between incremental and full complete history re-scan. πŸ–ΌοΈ Full Media & Attachment Extraction: β€’ Parallel download engine automatically fetches photos, GIFs, audio recordings, video clips, and document attachments (PDFs, docs, spreadsheets, zip archives) into an organized media folder. β€’ Captures Google Meet call links and interactive bot card messages (alerts, webhooks). ⚑ Auto-Scroll Full History: β€’ Automatically scrolls up through the conversation to load older history so you never miss past messages. 🌐 Universal Browser & App Support: β€’ Works in regular browser tabs (chat.google.com and mail.google.com). β€’ Works in Google Chat installed as a Progressive Web App (PWA) / standalone desktop window. β€’ Fully compatible with Brave, Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium browsers. πŸ–±οΈ Two Convenient Ways to Export: β€’ 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. β€’ Context Menu: Right-click anywhere within a chat to export directly from the right-click menu. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ”’ 100% PRIVATE & SECURE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Your privacy is our highest priority: β€’ Zero External Servers: All message parsing, media downloading, and ZIP generation happen strictly on your machine. β€’ No Tracking or Telemetry: No analytics, cookies, or tracking scripts. β€’ No Account Needed: Operates directly in your browser session using standard local browser APIs. β€’ Your data never leaves your computer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ› οΈ 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: β€’ 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". β€’ Option B (Right-Click): Right-click anywhere inside the chat message area and select "πŸ“„ 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! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ’‘ PERFECT FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ β€’ Teams & Businesses: Archive project discussions, client agreements, and handover notes. β€’ Compliance & Legal: Create verifiable offline records of work conversations. β€’ Students & Researchers: Save group study sessions, resources, and shared links. β€’ Personal Backup: Keep permanent offline copies of memorable chats with family and colleagues. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ“¦ 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! πŸ—ƒοΈπŸ’¬

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%00.00
30 days0+0.0%+2+0.67
6 months+505+102.0%+2+0.67
1 year+827+478.0%+5+3.00

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Google Chat Exporter appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
chat#74new

Version history

3 versions recorded
2.1.023 Sep 2026
2.0.021 Sep 2026
1.05 May 2025

Details

Category
Communication
First seen
5 May 2025
Size
88 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Support
github.com
Extension ID
epemodmmmilflmhgojgonhfcjfjnflgc

Permissions and risk

Elevated riskimpact 3, likelihood 3
Permissions
activeTabcontextMenusscriptingstoragedownloads
Site access
https://chat.google.com/*https://mail.google.com/*https://*.googleusercontent.com/*https://*.usercontent.google.com/*https://*.googleapis.com/*

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