AI Chat Export SuiteTurn a conversation into a Markdown file
Markdown is a text-based document format. Choose it when you want the conversation's content in a .md file rather than a paged PDF. Code blocks are kept intact, including long code blocks.
The extension works with Claude's website at claude.ai. This guide does not claim support for Claude desktop apps or command-line sessions.
Export the whole Claude chat
- Install the extension in Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Firefox and open the Claude conversation you want to keep.
- Set Markdown as your default export format.
- Choose a folder inside Downloads, or choose to be asked where to save each file.
- Use the Export button on the chat page to save the whole conversation as Markdown.
The toolbar popup provides another way to export: it detects the current site and chat. The first-export checklist follows Open an AI chat, Pick a chat, Choose folder and First export, then disappears after that first export.
Keep only the exchange you need
For part of a long discussion, open Select mode. Each message has a checkbox in the sidebar. Use Human to select human messages, Assistant for assistant messages, All for the whole chat, None to clear the selection or Invert to reverse it. Shift+Click selects a range.
Selected messages are outlined on the page. Review that selection, then export it. Selection, filters and ranges are included free.
Keep code content without claiming extra exports
Long code blocks remain intact in the export. However, artifacts, AI thinking, web sources, tool steps, message timestamps and image or media downloads are not available. A conversation's message content is not the same thing as every panel, file or feature shown by the AI site.
This is a guide to saving an open Claude conversation, not a method for downloading all account history. There is no promise of capturing unexported conversations in the local archive.
Search the chats you've exported
Each export is saved in the local archive on your machine. Search by keyword, then use the site and code filters to narrow results. A result reopens the original Claude conversation on claude.ai.
Re-exporting that chat replaces the previous archived copy. Archive search is included on every plan. The archive does not provide sync or restore.
Put several Markdown files into a ZIP pack
With Starter or Standard, search the archive and select up to 200 chats. Choose Markdown for a ZIP pack with one .md file per chat. Pack order is newest first. A Markdown ZIP pack does not count toward the daily PDF allowance.
The Free plan already includes unlimited individual Markdown exports and archive search. Paid plans add multi-chat PDF and ZIP packs and remove PDF branding. On a Single provider plan, these paid features apply only to the site chosen at checkout, such as Claude. See pricing.
Save the same Claude conversation as PDF
For a paged document instead of a .md file, set PDF as the default format, open the conversation at claude.ai and use the extension's Export button. It saves the whole chat in the default format. The toolbar popup detects the current site and chat and can export it too. To save only part of the exchange, use Select mode as described above.
Before exporting PDF: PDFs do not support emoji or Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters. PDF message text is plain, without bold or list formatting. These limits apply on every plan and to PDF Packs. Choose Markdown, JSON, CSV or TXT to keep content PDF cannot represent; TXT remains plain text.
Free PDF allowance: the Free plan includes 3 PDF exports per day, shared across all seven sites and reset at 00:00 UTC. Markdown, JSON, CSV and TXT exports are unlimited on every plan.
Set the PDF filename and title, A4 or Letter page size, portrait or landscape orientation, margins, light or dark theme and font size. You can include the original-conversation link, start each prompt on a new page and toggle page numbers. Font choice is not available.
The Free plan includes 3 PDF exports per day, shared across all seven sites and reset at 00:00 UTC; Free PDFs include a branding footer. Starter (30 PDFs per day) and Standard (100 PDFs per day) remove that footer; they do not change the PDF character or formatting limits. Paid plans can also combine up to 200 archived chats in one PDF Pack with a title page and clickable table of contents, ordered newest first. Each chat in a PDF Pack counts as one PDF. PDF Packs and ZIP packs are built in your browser.
Choosing between Markdown and PDF
Markdown, JSON, CSV and TXT keep content that PDF cannot represent. PDFs do not support emoji or Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters, and PDF message text is plain, without bold or list formatting. TXT is also plain text. Choose a format for the content you need, not just the filename extension.
Compare all five formats, read the setup walkthrough or find answers in the FAQ. Exports are built in your browser; read how your data is handled.
For a paged export from another supported site, see ChatGPT to PDF or Gemini to PDF.
What the Free plan includes
The Free plan covers Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, DeepSeek and Microsoft Copilot. It includes unlimited Markdown, JSON, CSV and TXT exports, 3 PDF exports per day with a branding footer, Select mode and local archive search. The extension is available for Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Firefox. Need more PDFs, packs or no branding? Compare Free, Starter and Standard.