Open Telegram files in your browser
What Telegram Desktop's Export chat history saves, read back as the conversation. Open it right here, with its photos and voice messages. 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 Telegram
Telegram Desktop exports a chat, or a whole account, as a folder: messages.html in pages of a thousand messages, or result.json for apps to read, beside folders of photos, videos, files and voice messages. It came in 2018, with the data people may ask a service for.
People export a chat to keep it, to move to another app or to hand it on. Telegram doesn't read its exports back, the JSON reads as code, and the HTML shows a page at a time with no way to search the whole chat.
Filepeek reads result.json, or every messages.html page dropped together, into bubbles, each person in a color, with replies, reactions, edits, polls and calls. Photos and voice messages open from the export, Search counts every match, a date jumps to its day, Stats shows who wrote how much and when, and Export saves the chat as PDF, CSV or text.
Telegram chat export
.json • .html
Format
- MIME type
- application/json
- Made by
- Telegram Desktop
- Released
- 2018
Inside the file
- Format
- JSON, or HTML pages
- Media
- Folders of photos, files and voice
- Holds
- One chat, or the whole account
- Written by
- Telegram Desktop
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens Telegram exports in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, however long the chat. On their own, browsers show result.json as code and messages.html a page at a time.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open Telegram
- WindowsTelegram Desktop writes it • No app reads it back
- MacTelegram Desktop writes it • No app reads it back
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I export a Telegram chat?
In Telegram Desktop, open the chat, then its menu and Export chat history. Pick JSON or HTML and the media to keep, and it saves a ChatExport folder.
Which format should I export?
Either opens here. JSON keeps the whole chat in one file, result.json, while HTML cuts it into pages, which open as one chat when you drop them together.
Why don't my photos show?
Drop the whole ChatExport folder, or a ZIP of it, so the photos and voice messages come along with the chat.