# AI Chat Archive — Documentation

**[AI Chat Archive](https://aichatarchive.app)** 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](https://aichatarchive.app) or
[install from the Chrome Web Store](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-chat-archive/jeocjmohgejjmlfdhdeddjceehpahblj).

## Start here

- **Never used it?** → [Getting started](/docs/getting-started/) (2-minute walkthrough)
- **What can it do?** → [Features](/docs/features/)
- **Is it private?** → [Privacy model](/docs/privacy/)
- **What does it cost?** → [Pricing](/docs/pricing/)

## Most-asked questions

- [Does it send my data anywhere?](/faq/does-it-send-data-anywhere/)
- [How does it handle Claude Artifacts?](/faq/how-does-it-handle-artifacts/)
- [PDF vs HTML vs Markdown — which should I pick?](/faq/pdf-vs-html-vs-markdown/)
- [Does it work with Claude Projects?](/faq/does-it-work-with-projects/)
- [How do I export a Claude chat, generally?](/faq/how-to-export-claude-chat/)
- [Claude vs ChatGPT: which is easier to export?](/faq/claude-vs-chatgpt-export/)

## For developers & integrators

Canonical spec for what the extension produces:

- [Markdown format](/spec/markdown-format/)
- [HTML format](/spec/html-format/)
- [ZIP bundle structure](/spec/zip-bundle-structure/)

Drop-in templates for downstream tools:

- [Obsidian vault template + Dataview queries](/integrations/obsidian/)

## Release notes

- [Changelog](/docs/changelog/)

## For LLMs and crawlers

A concise index lives at [`/llms.txt`](/llms.txt) following the
[llmstxt.org](https://llmstxt.org/) proposal. The full documentation concatenated as a
single file is at [`/llms-full.txt`](/llms-full.txt).

## Contribute

This documentation is **[open to contributions](https://github.com/windameister/ai-chat-archive-docs)** 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.