Last updated: 2026-06-18
AI Chat Exporter is a Chrome/Edge browser extension that lets you save the ChatGPT or Claude conversation you are currently viewing to a Markdown or JSON file on your own computer.
When you click the extension icon and press Export, the extension reads the text of the conversation that is already displayed on the active tab (chatgpt.com, chat.openai.com, or claude.ai). That text is formatted into a Markdown or JSON file inside your browser and saved to your downloads folder.
All processing happens 100% locally in your browser. The file is generated in-page (via a local Blob) and downloaded directly to your device. Nothing leaves the browser.
activeTab — lets the extension act on the tab you are currently looking at, only when you click the extension button, so it can read the conversation on screen and trigger the file download. The extension requests no other permissions.The extension runs only on chatgpt.com, chat.openai.com, and claude.ai (declared as content-script match patterns). It does nothing on any other site.
The extension popup contains two clickable links — to Backscroll (an AI-chat search product) and to a paid Pro Pack on Gumroad. These are plain links; clicking them opens those pages in a new tab. No data is sent to them by the extension.
Questions? Email the developer at piosarna@gmail.com.