Export current ChatGPT chat to JSON (AI-friendly) and RTF (Unicode, links, tables). Adds timestamps and message IDs.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Chat Transcript Exporter (JSON+RTF)
// @namespace TamperMonkey
// @version 0.4.5
// @description Export current ChatGPT chat to JSON (AI-friendly) and RTF (Unicode, links, tables). Adds timestamps and message IDs.
// @author Jeroen Bazuin
// @match https://chat.openai.com/*
// @match https://chatgpt.com/*
// @run-at document-start
// @license MIT
// @grant GM_registerMenuCommand
// @grant GM_addStyle
// ==/UserScript==
(function () {
'use strict';
console.info('[Chat Transcript Exporter] Boot v0.4.5');
// ---------- Settings ----------
const FILL_SYNTHETIC_TIMES = true; // fill missing timestamps (+1s monotonic)
const SYNTHETIC_STEP_MS = 1000;
// ---------- Styles (two blue buttons, top-right) ----------
GM_addStyle(`
.jb-toolbar{position:fixed;top:84px;right:16px;z-index:2147483647;display:flex;gap:6px;align-items:center}
.jb-btn{background:#2563eb;color:#fff;border:1px solid #1d4ed8;border-radius:8px;padding:6px 10px;
font:600 12px/1 system-ui,-apple-system,Segoe UI,Roboto,Arial;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,.12)}
.jb-btn:hover{filter:brightness(1.05)}
.jb-toast{position:fixed;left:50%;transform:translateX(-50%);top:12px;background:#111827;color:#fff;padding:8px 12px;
border-radius:8px;border:1px solid #e5e7eb;z-index:2147483647;font:500 12px/1 system-ui,-apple-system,Segoe UI,Roboto,Arial;pointer-events:none}
`);
// ---------- Utils ----------
const sleep = (ms) => new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, ms));
const pad = (n) => String(n).padStart(2, '0');
const dateStamp = () => {
const d = new Date();
return `${d.getFullYear()}-${pad(d.getMonth()+1)}-${pad(d.getDate())}_${pad(d.getHours())}-${pad(d.getMinutes())}-${pad(d.getSeconds())}`;
};
function toast(msg, ms = 1200) {
if (!document.body) return;
const el = document.createElement('div');
el.className = 'jb-toast';
el.textContent = msg;
document.body.appendChild(el);
setTimeout(() => el.remove(), ms);
}
function download(filename, data, type = 'application/octet-stream') {
const blob = new Blob([data], { type });
const url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
const a = document.createElement('a');
a.href = url;
a.download = filename;
(document.body || document.documentElement).appendChild(a);
a.click();
a.remove();
setTimeout(() => URL.revokeObjectURL(url), 1500);
}
// ---------- Load all messages ----------
async function ensureAllMessagesLoaded(maxLoops = 28) {
let last = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < maxLoops; i++) {
const c = document.querySelectorAll('[data-message-author-role]').length;
if (c > last) {
last = c;
window.scrollTo({ top: 0, behavior: 'auto' });
await sleep(650);
} else break;
}
}
const getMessageNodes = () => Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[data-message-author-role]'));
// ---------- Extractors ----------
function sanitizeClone(node) {
const clone = node.cloneNode(true);
clone.querySelectorAll('*').forEach(el => {
[...el.attributes].forEach(a => { if (/^on/i.test(a.name)) el.removeAttribute(a.name); });
});
return clone;
}
function stripUI(root) {
[
'button','svg','textarea','input','[role="menu"]',
'[data-testid="copy-code-button"]','[data-testid="followup-actions"]',
'[data-testid="toolbar"]','nav','header','footer',
'figure:has(img[alt*="avatar"])','[aria-label="Actions"]'
].forEach(sel => root.querySelectorAll(sel).forEach(n => n.remove()));
}
function pickContentEl(node) {
return node.querySelector('article')
|| node.querySelector('.markdown, .prose, [data-testid="conversation-turn-content"]')
|| node;
}
function extractCodeBlocks(root) {
const blocks = [];
root.querySelectorAll('pre').forEach(pre => {
const code = pre.querySelector('code');
const text = (code ? code.textContent : pre.textContent) || '';
let lang = '';
if (code) {
const ds = code.getAttribute('data-language');
if (ds) lang = ds.toLowerCase();
if (!lang && code.className) {
const m = code.className.match(/language-([a-z0-9]+)/i);
if (m) lang = m[1].toLowerCase();
}
}
blocks.push({ lang, text });
});
return blocks;
}
function htmlToPlainText(html) {
const c = document.createElement('div');
c.innerHTML = html;
c.querySelectorAll('pre').forEach(pre => {
pre.replaceWith(document.createTextNode('\n' + pre.textContent + '\n'));
});
c.querySelectorAll('br').forEach(br => br.replaceWith(document.createTextNode('\n')));
c.querySelectorAll('li').forEach(li => li.insertAdjacentText('afterbegin', '• '));
return c.innerText.replace(/\n{3,}/g, '\n\n').trim();
}
function extractTimestamp(node) {
const t = node.querySelector('time[datetime]');
if (t && t.getAttribute('datetime')) return t.getAttribute('datetime');
for (const a of ['data-message-timestamp','data-timestamp','data-created','data-created-at']) {
const v = node.getAttribute(a) || (node.dataset && node.dataset[a.replace('data-','').replace(/-([a-z])/g,(_,c)=>c.toUpperCase())]);
if (v) return v;
}
const t2 = node.querySelector('time');
if (t2 && t2.textContent) {
const d = new Date(t2.textContent.trim());
if (!isNaN(d.getTime())) return d.toISOString();
}
return null;
}
function extractMessageId(node) {
const self = node.getAttribute('data-message-id');
if (self) return self;
const desc = node.querySelector('[data-message-id]');
if (desc) return desc.getAttribute('data-message-id');
const anc = node.closest('[data-message-id]');
if (anc) return anc.getAttribute('data-message-id');
const idLike = node.id || node.getAttribute('id');
if (idLike && /message|msg|node/i.test(idLike)) return idLike;
return null;
}
// AI-friendly fragments
function extractFragments(root) {
const out = [];
const el = root.cloneNode(true);
stripUI(el);
function push(f) {
if (!f) return;
if (f.text && !f.text.trim()) return;
out.push(f);
}
function getText(n) {
return (n.innerText || '').replace(/\s+\n/g, '\n').replace(/\n{3,}/g, '\n\n').trim();
}
function readList(listEl, ordered) {
const items = Array.from(listEl.children).map(li => getText(li)).filter(Boolean);
return { type: ordered ? 'ordered_list' : 'unordered_list', items };
}
function readTable(tbl) {
const rows = Array.from(tbl.querySelectorAll('tr')).map(tr =>
Array.from(tr.children).map(td => getText(td))
);
const hasHeader = rows.length && tbl.querySelector('th') != null;
return { type: 'table', header: hasHeader ? rows[0] : null, rows: hasHeader ? rows.slice(1) : rows };
}
const blocks = Array.from(el.children.length ? el.children : [el]);
blocks.forEach(node => {
if (node.nodeType !== 1) return;
const tag = node.tagName;
if (/^H[1-6]$/.test(tag)) push({ type: 'heading', level: +tag[1], text: getText(node) });
else if (tag === 'P') push({ type: 'paragraph', text: getText(node) });
else if (tag === 'UL') push(readList(node, false));
else if (tag === 'OL') push(readList(node, true));
else if (tag === 'PRE') {
const code = node.querySelector('code');
let lang = '';
if (code) {
const ds = code.getAttribute('data-language');
if (ds) lang = ds.toLowerCase();
if (!lang && code.className) {
const m = code.className.match(/language-([a-z0-9]+)/i);
if (m) lang = m[1].toLowerCase();
}
}
push({ type: 'code_block', lang, code: code ? code.textContent : node.textContent });
}
else if (tag === 'BLOCKQUOTE') push({ type: 'blockquote', text: getText(node) });
else if (tag === 'TABLE') push(readTable(node));
});
if (!out.length) out.push({ type: 'paragraph', text: getText(el) });
return out;
}
function extractMessage(node) {
const role = node.getAttribute('data-message-author-role') || 'unknown';
const message_id = extractMessageId(node);
const created_at_raw = extractTimestamp(node);
const contentEl = pickContentEl(node);
const clean = sanitizeClone(contentEl);
stripUI(clean);
const html = clean.innerHTML;
const text = htmlToPlainText(html);
const code_blocks = extractCodeBlocks(clean);
const fragments = extractFragments(clean);
return { role, message_id, created_at: created_at_raw || null, html, text, code_blocks, fragments };
}
async function collectTranscript() {
await ensureAllMessagesLoaded();
const nodes = getMessageNodes();
let messages = nodes.map((n, i) => ({ index: i + 1, ...extractMessage(n) })).filter(m => m.text || m.html);
if (messages.some(m => !m.created_at) && FILL_SYNTHETIC_TIMES) {
const start = Date.now() - (messages.length * SYNTHETIC_STEP_MS);
messages = messages.map((m, i) =>
m.created_at
? { ...m, created_at_synthetic: false }
: { ...m, created_at: new Date(start + i * SYNTHETIC_STEP_MS).toISOString(), created_at_synthetic: true }
);
} else {
messages = messages.map(m => ({ ...m, created_at_synthetic: false }));
}
return {
source_url: location.href,
title: document.title || 'ChatGPT chat',
exported_at: new Date().toISOString(),
messages
};
}
// ---------- RTF helpers (Unicode, links, lists, tables) ----------
function escapeRtfU(str) {
let out = '';
for (let i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
let cp = str.codePointAt(i);
if (cp > 0xFFFF) i++;
const ch = String.fromCodePoint(cp);
if (ch === '\\'){ out += '\\\\'; continue; }
if (ch === '{'){ out += '\\{'; continue; }
if (ch === '}'){ out += '\\}'; continue; }
if (ch === '\r'){ continue; }
if (ch === '\n'){ out += '\\line '; continue; }
if (cp > 127){ out += `\\u${cp}?`; continue; }
out += ch;
}
return out;
}
function fldinstEscape(s) { return String(s).replace(/\\/g, '\\\\').replace(/"/g, '\\"'); }
function rtfTableFromDOM(table) {
// Word-friendly: per-cell \\pard\\intbl ... \\cell, then \\row
const rows = Array.from(table.querySelectorAll('tr')).map(tr => Array.from(tr.children));
if (!rows.length) return '';
const maxCols = Math.max(...rows.map(r => r.length));
const cellW = Math.round(9000 / Math.max(1, maxCols)); // twips
let r = '';
rows.forEach(tr => {
r += '\\trowd\\trgaph108\\trleft0 ';
let x = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < maxCols; i++) { x += cellW; r += `\\cellx${x} `; }
tr.forEach((cell) => {
const isHead = cell.tagName === 'TH';
const txt = (cell.innerText || '').trim();
if (isHead) r += '\\b ';
r += `\\pard\\intbl ${escapeRtfU(txt)}\\cell `;
if (isHead) r += '\\b0 ';
});
for (let k = tr.length; k < maxCols; k++) r += '\\pard\\intbl \\cell ';
r += '\\row ';
});
return r;
}
function richFragmentToRtf(html) {
const root = document.createElement('div');
root.innerHTML = html;
let out = '';
function walk(node, ctx = { inList: false }) {
if (node.nodeType === 3) { out += escapeRtfU(node.nodeValue); return; }
if (node.nodeType !== 1) return;
const tag = node.tagName;
switch (tag) {
case 'BR': out += '\\line '; break;
case 'P':
Array.from(node.childNodes).forEach(n => walk(n, ctx));
if (!ctx.inList) out += '\\par ';
break;
case 'H1': case 'H2': case 'H3':
out += '\\b '; if (tag === 'H1') out += '\\fs36 '; if (tag === 'H2') out += '\\fs32 '; if (tag === 'H3') out += '\\fs28 ';
Array.from(node.childNodes).forEach(n => walk(n, ctx));
out += '\\b0 \\fs24 \\par ';
break;
case 'STRONG': case 'B': out += '\\b '; Array.from(node.childNodes).forEach(n => walk(n, ctx)); out += ' \\b0 '; break;
case 'EM': case 'I': out += '\\i '; Array.from(node.childNodes).forEach(n => walk(n, ctx)); out += ' \\i0 '; break;
case 'UL':
Array.from(node.children).forEach(li => {
out += '\\pard\\tx720\\li720\\fi-360 \\bullet\\tab ';
Array.from(li.childNodes).forEach(n => {
if (n.nodeType === 1 && n.tagName === 'P') Array.from(n.childNodes).forEach(nn => walk(nn, { inList: true }));
else walk(n, { inList: true });
});
out += '\\par ';
});
out += '\\pard ';
break;
case 'OL': {
let counter = 1;
Array.from(node.children).forEach(li => {
out += `\\pard\\tx720\\li720\\fi-360 ${escapeRtfU(String(counter) + '.')}\\tab `;
Array.from(li.childNodes).forEach(n => {
if (n.nodeType === 1 && n.tagName === 'P') Array.from(n.childNodes).forEach(nn => walk(nn, { inList: true }));
else walk(n, { inList: true });
});
out += '\\par ';
counter++;
});
out += '\\pard ';
break;
}
case 'BLOCKQUOTE':
out += '\\li360 ';
Array.from(node.childNodes).forEach(n => walk(n, ctx));
out += '\\li0 \\par ';
break;
case 'PRE': {
const code = node.querySelector('code');
const text = code ? code.textContent : node.textContent;
out += '{\\pard\\f1\\cb2 ' + escapeRtfU(text) + ' \\par} ';
break;
}
case 'CODE': {
if (node.parentElement && node.parentElement.tagName === 'PRE') break;
out += '{\\f1 ' + escapeRtfU(node.textContent) + '} ';
break;
}
case 'A': {
const href = node.getAttribute('href') || '';
const label = node.textContent || href;
out += `{\\field{\\*\\fldinst HYPERLINK "${fldinstEscape(href)}"}{\\fldrslt ${escapeRtfU(label)}}}`;
break;
}
case 'TABLE': {
out += rtfTableFromDOM(node);
break;
}
default:
Array.from(node.childNodes).forEach(n => walk(n, ctx));
}
}
Array.from(root.childNodes).forEach(n => walk(n));
return out;
}
function buildRTF(doc) {
let body = '';
doc.messages.forEach(m => {
const roleLabel = m.role === 'user' ? 'User' : m.role === 'assistant' ? 'ChatGPT' : m.role === 'system' ? 'System' : m.role;
const approx = m.created_at_synthetic ? ' ~' : '';
const metaParts = [];
if (m.created_at) metaParts.push(`${m.created_at}${approx}`);
if (m.message_id) metaParts.push(`id: ${m.message_id}`);
const meta = metaParts.join('; ');
// Role + small inline meta in parentheses
body += `\\b ${escapeRtfU(roleLabel)} \\b0`;
if (meta) body += ` {\\fs18 (${escapeRtfU(meta)})}\\par `;
else body += ' \\par ';
body += richFragmentToRtf(m.html || m.text || '');
body += '\\par\\par '; // blank line between messages
});
return '{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\deff0\\uc1'
+ '{\\fonttbl{\\f0 Segoe UI;}{\\f1 Courier New;}}'
+ '{\\colortbl;\\red0\\green0\\blue0;\\red243\\green244\\blue246;}' // \cb2 for code
+ '\\fs24 ' + body + '}';
}
// ---------- Export actions ----------
async function exportJSON() {
try {
toast('Collecting transcript (JSON)…');
const data = await collectTranscript();
const titleSlug = (document.title || 'chat_transcript').replace(/[^\p{L}\p{N} _-]+/gu,'').replace(/\s+/g,'_').slice(0,70) || 'chat_transcript';
const fname = `${titleSlug}_${dateStamp()}.json`;
download(fname, JSON.stringify(data, null, 2), 'application/json;charset=utf-8');
toast('JSON downloaded ✔');
} catch (e) {
console.error('[Chat Transcript Exporter] JSON error', e);
toast('JSON export failed (see console).');
}
}
async function exportRTF() {
try {
toast('Collecting transcript (RTF)…');
const data = await collectTranscript();
const rtf = buildRTF(data);
const titleSlug = (document.title || 'chat_transcript').replace(/[^\p{L}\p{N} _-]+/gu,'').replace(/\s+/g,'_').slice(0,70) || 'chat_transcript';
const fname = `${titleSlug}_${dateStamp()}.rtf`;
download(fname, rtf, 'application/rtf;charset=utf-8');
toast('RTF downloaded ✔');
} catch (e) {
console.error('[Chat Transcript Exporter] RTF error', e);
toast('RTF export failed (see console).');
}
}
// ---------- UI (top-right) ----------
function topbarBottomY() {
for (const sel of ['header[role="banner"]','[data-testid="top-nav"]','nav[role="navigation"]','header']) {
const el = document.querySelector(sel);
if (el) { const r = el.getBoundingClientRect(); if (r.bottom > 0) return Math.max(r.bottom + 12, 60); }
}
return 84;
}
function ensureToolbar() {
if (!document.body) return;
let bar = document.querySelector('.jb-toolbar');
const top = topbarBottomY();
if (!bar) {
bar = document.createElement('div');
bar.className = 'jb-toolbar';
const btnJson = document.createElement('button');
btnJson.className = 'jb-btn';
btnJson.textContent = 'Export JSON';
btnJson.title = 'Download transcript as JSON';
btnJson.addEventListener('click', exportJSON);
const btnRtf = document.createElement('button');
btnRtf.className = 'jb-btn';
btnRtf.textContent = 'Export RTF';
btnRtf.title = 'Download transcript as RTF';
btnRtf.addEventListener('click', exportRTF);
bar.append(btnJson, btnRtf);
document.body.appendChild(bar);
toast('Exporter active');
console.info('[Chat Transcript Exporter] Toolbar ready');
}
bar.style.top = `${top}px`;
}
// Tampermonkey menu
if (typeof GM_registerMenuCommand === 'function') {
GM_registerMenuCommand('Export JSON', exportJSON);
GM_registerMenuCommand('Export RTF', exportRTF);
}
// Lifecycle
const boot = () => {
const readyInt = setInterval(() => {
if (document.body) { ensureToolbar(); clearInterval(readyInt); }
}, 200);
const mo = new MutationObserver(() => ensureToolbar());
mo.observe(document.documentElement, { childList: true, subtree: true });
window.addEventListener('resize', ensureToolbar);
window.addEventListener('scroll', ensureToolbar);
};
if (document.readyState === 'loading') {
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', boot, { once: true });
} else {
boot();
}
})();