Open ChatGPT files in your browser
Every conversation ChatGPT kept for you, read back as it showed. Open the export right here, with its pictures, its code and every answer asked for again. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your chat opens as its conversation, each message in a bubble in its sender's color, with the days, replies, reactions and calls, and the photos and voice notes the export holds.
- Every conversation • Each person in a color of their own
- Search • Every match counted, and a date jumps to its day
- Stats • Who wrote how much, by hour, weekday and month
- Export • Save as PDF, CSV or text
About ChatGPT
ChatGPT's Settings, then Data controls and Export data, emails a link to a ZIP of your account: conversations.json with every chat, chat.html, user.json, and the pictures and files you uploaded or had drawn, each named after its file ID. The link works for 24 hours.
conversations.json keeps each chat as a tree of its messages, so every edited question and every answer asked for again is a branch, with the tools called on the way and hidden system messages between them. chat.html shows only one branch of each, through a script, and anywhere else the JSON is a wall of IDs.
Filepeek reads the ZIP into your chats as ChatGPT showed them: answers drawn from their Markdown with code in color, math and tables, the model under each, and arrows to switch between an edit's branches. The code it ran and its output, its thinking and the pictures it drew fold into the answer, your uploads open from the ZIP, and About you holds your custom instructions and memory. Search counts every match, and Export saves a chat as PDF, CSV, text or Markdown.
ChatGPT data export
.zip • .json
Format
- MIME type
- application/zip
- Made by
- ChatGPT's Export data
- Released
- 2023
Inside the file
- Holds
- Every chat, as a tree of messages
- Files
- Uploads and drawings, by file ID
- Branches
- Each edit and answer asked for again
- Written by
- ChatGPT's Export data
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens ChatGPT exports in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, however many chats they hold. On their own, browsers only download the ZIP and show conversations.json as code.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open ChatGPT
- WindowsChatGPT made it • No app reads it back
- MacChatGPT made it • No app reads it back
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I export my ChatGPT chats?
In ChatGPT, open Settings, then Data controls and Export data, and confirm. OpenAI emails a link to the ZIP, which works for 24 hours.
Why do some questions show arrows?
You edited the question or asked for the answer again, and ChatGPT kept both. The arrows switch between them as in ChatGPT, and the chat follows the branch you pick.
Why don't some files show?
The export holds the pictures and files you uploaded and those ChatGPT drew. A file from a connected drive stays where it was, so it shows by its name.
Can I open conversations.json on its own?
Yes. Drop it here and the chats open. Drop the files beside it with it, and their pictures open too.
Can I save a chat as a PDF?
Yes. Choose Export, then Save as PDF. Save as Markdown keeps the answers' formatting for notes apps, and CSV gives a row for each message.