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

ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users cannot export workspace chats through OpenAI's standard data export option, but a new free tool offers an unofficial way to retrieve their accessible chat records.

“I made the stupid decision to upgrade from a personal account to a Business one a while back as they prompted, and for some reason OpenAI doesn't let you export the data easily,” Quilty-Harper explained to The Register in an email.

OpenAI says right on its help page about chat exports that Free, Plus, Pro, and some Edu customers can export their chats, but Business and Enterprise workspaces don't have access to that export option.

Never fear, however, as scrapemychats will be able to liberate those messages - at least until OpenAI closes the loophole it exploits. “I expect OpenAI will stop this from working shortly after you write about it,” Quilty-Harper predicted in our exchange. “It's probably a breach of their terms of service.

But hey, their entire business model is based around scraping copyrighted material. This just allows you to get the content you wrote or pasted or created (and generated) back. ” It's not a headless tool, mind you: ChatGPT's bot protection prevents it from running in one.

What that means in practice is that scrapemychats navigates through your ChatGPT account, opens your conversations, and stores the conversation data and attachments loaded through the browser. That also means it moves slowly, as OpenAI tends to throttle anything that makes too many requests too quickly.

Downloading a 600-chat archive will take “a few hours,” the README states. It can be resumed if you need to pause it, though. Installation can be done via the command line, and all the necessary steps to get it running are included in the GitHub writeup.