OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will

The Register · 2 months ago · 34

OpenAI restricts chat exports for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users while allowing them for lower-tier accounts, but a new free tool called Scrapemychats created by freelance journalist Conrad Quilty-Harper enables these users to download their conversation archives anyway. The tool works through a logged-in browser session and stores chats locally as an offline-browsable HTML archive, taking several hours to download a 600-chat archive due to rate-limiting. Users who export their data with the tool can now retain copies of their conversations if they switch to other AI services, though the creator expects OpenAI to patch the workaround soon.