ChatGPT-Backup

Back up your ChatGPT conversations in seconds.

Open source: https://github.com/FredySandoval/ChatGPT-CHROME_EXTENSION

ChatGPT Backup Tool is a Chrome extension that helps you export your ChatGPT conversations in formats that are actually useful.

Whether you want a personal archive, readable notes, project documentation, or machine-readable data for automation, this extension makes it easy to save your conversations and keep control of your work.

### Why install ChatGPT Backup Tool?

If your prompts, answers, research, code reviews, or brainstorming sessions matter, you should own a copy of them.

This extension lets you export:

- the current conversation
- all conversations
- project-related conversations when using ChatGPT Projects

### Export formats

Choose the format that matches your workflow:

- Markdown for readable notes, documentation, and publishing
- JSON for structured backups and automation
- Raw JSON for developers, scripts, analytics, and custom tooling
- ZIP archives for exporting multiple Markdown conversations at once

### Main features

- Export the current chat in Markdown or JSON
- Export all chats as one JSON file
- Export all chats as Markdown files in a ZIP
- Export current project chats with project-aware backup flow
- Support for raw JSON export
- Improved handling for rich content rendering
- File citation rendering support in exported content
- Built-in progress updates in the popup
- Ability to stop long-running downloads
- Configurable export behavior from the options page

### Better Markdown, MDX, and frontmatter support

Markdown exports are designed to be practical and reusable.

The extension includes support and improvements for workflows that use:

- markdown-based documentation
- MDX-based sites
- note-taking systems
- content publishing pipelines

You can configure markdown labels, frontmatter-related behavior, and USER / ASSISTANT formatting so exports are easier to reuse in blogs, docs, knowledge bases, and personal archives.

This makes the extension useful not only for backups, but also for turning ChatGPT conversations into content you can organize, publish, or process later.

### Useful for

- students saving study sessions
- developers archiving debugging and coding conversations
- writers preserving drafts and brainstorming
- researchers collecting prompt/output records
- teams documenting project-related chats
- power users building structured archives and workflows

### Simple and fast

The extension is built to be easy to use:
- open ChatGPT
- click the extension
- choose what you want to export
- save your data

If you want a simple way to back up your ChatGPT history in readable and reusable formats, ChatGPT Backup Tool is built for you.