Open Google Chat files in your browser
Your Google Chat and Hangouts history, as Google Takeout hands it out, read back as your conversations. Open it right here, with its photos. 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 Google Chat
Google Takeout lets anyone download what Google keeps of them. For Google Chat it gives a Groups folder with a folder for each space and direct message, holding its messages.json, its group_info.json and the files shared in it. Hangouts, which Google Chat replaced in 2022, came as one Hangouts.json with every conversation in it.
People download them to keep their chats when they leave a job or a school, or to keep years of Hangouts. Google only takes them out, nothing reads them back, and the JSON reads as code anywhere else.
Filepeek reads the Takeout ZIP, its folder dropped whole, or Hangouts.json into your conversations as bubbles, each person in a color, with replies, reactions, edits and Hangouts' calls. Photos and files open from the export, Search counts every match, Stats shows who wrote how much and when, and Export saves the chat as PDF, CSV or text.
Google Chat and Hangouts Takeout
.zip • .json
Format
- MIME type
- application/json
- Made by
- Google Takeout
Inside the file
- Format
- JSON, a folder a conversation
- Media
- Beside each messages.json
- Hangouts
- One Hangouts.json
- Written by
- Google Takeout
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens Google Chat's and Hangouts' Takeout in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, however long the history. On their own, browsers show the JSON as code.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open Google Chat
- WindowsNo app reads it back
- MacNo app reads it back
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I download my Google Chat history?
Go to takeout.google.com, pick Google Chat alone, and Takeout emails a link to a ZIP. Drop the ZIP here as it is, or its Takeout folder once unpacked.
Can I open my old Hangouts chats?
Yes. A Takeout from Hangouts holds one Hangouts.json with every conversation, which opens here with its calls and photos.
Why don't my photos show?
Photos are in each conversation's folder beside its messages.json. Drop the whole ZIP or the Takeout folder so they come along.
Can I save a chat as a PDF?
Yes. Open a conversation, choose Export, then Save as PDF. CSV and text are there too.