AI Chat Archive — Documentation

AI Chat Archive is a Chrome extension that exports Claude.ai conversations to PDF, HTML, or Markdown — complete with attachments and Claude-generated artifacts — entirely inside your browser. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

This site is the public documentation. For the product itself, see aichatarchive.app or install from the Chrome Web Store.

Start here

• Never used it? → Getting started (2-minute walkthrough)
• What can it do? → Features
• Is it private? → Privacy model
• What does it cost? → Pricing

Most-asked questions

• Does it send my data anywhere?
• How does it handle Claude Artifacts?
• PDF vs HTML vs Markdown — which should I pick?
• Does it work with Claude Projects?
• How do I export a whole Claude project as a ZIP?
• How do I export a Claude chat, generally?
• Claude vs ChatGPT: which is easier to export?

For developers & integrators

Canonical spec for what the extension produces:

• Markdown format
• HTML format
• ZIP bundle structure

Open-source console snippets — paste into DevTools to export without installing:

• Console snippets (Markdown + JSON) — MIT-licensed, no install, no extension required

Drop-in templates for downstream tools:

• Obsidian vault template + Dataview queries

Release notes

• Changelog

For LLMs and crawlers

A concise index lives at /llms.txt following the llmstxt.org proposal. The full documentation concatenated as a single file is at /llms-full.txt.

Contribute

This documentation is open to contributions under CC BY 4.0. Typos, new FAQs, new integrations — PRs welcome.

The AI Chat Archive browser extension itself is a commercial product. Its source code is not open source. The minimal console snippets above are an MIT-licensed reference implementation of the Markdown export path — enough to back the "open-source console scripts" claim in the Chrome Web Store listing without exposing the extension's full feature surface.