Export AI chat conversations to Markdown, PDF, HTML, JSON, DOCX, or ZIP — one click, no accounts, no servers.
Inkpour is a lightweight WebExtension (Manifest V3) that works in Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Brave. Everything happens locally in your browser.
| Platform | URL | Status |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | chatgpt.com / chat.openai.com | ✅ Full |
| Claude | claude.ai | ✅ Full |
| Google Gemini | gemini.google.com | ✅ Full |
| Google AI Studio | aistudio.google.com | ✅ Full |
| Google Search (AI Overview / AI Mode) | google.com/search | 🧪 Experimental |
| Microsoft Copilot | copilot.microsoft.com / copilot.com | ✅ Full |
| Grok | grok.com | ✅ Full |
| Groq Playground | console.groq.com/playground | 🧪 Experimental |
| Perplexity | perplexity.ai | 🧪 Experimental |
| DeepSeek | chat.deepseek.com | 🧪 Experimental |
| Meta AI | meta.ai / www.meta.ai | 🧪 Experimental |
| Mistral Le Chat | chat.mistral.ai | 🧪 Experimental |
| HuggingChat | huggingface.co/chat | 🧪 Experimental |
| Poe | poe.com | 🧪 Experimental |
| NotebookLM | notebooklm.google.com | 🧪 Experimental |
| Kagi Assistant | kagi.com | 🧪 Experimental |
| Z.ai (Zhipu GLM) | chat.z.ai | 🧪 Experimental |
| Venice.ai | venice.ai | 🧪 Experimental |
| Chatbot Arena (LMArena / Arena AI) | arena.ai / lmarena.ai / chat.lmsys.org | 🧪 Experimental |
| Character.AI | character.ai | 🧪 Experimental |
| Cohere Coral | coral.cohere.com | 🧪 Experimental |
| Pi.AI | pi.ai | 🧪 Experimental |
| Duck.ai | duck.ai | 🧪 Experimental |
Experimental = selectors verified against fixture HTML; real-page accuracy needs ongoing maintenance as sites update their DOM.
- Markdown (
.md) — clean GFM with optional YAML front matter and table of contents - Word (
.docx) — rich OOXML: colored message blocks (indigo/green), native tables, embedded hyperlinks, task-list checkboxes, code blocks with language labels, headings h1–h6, blockquotes (IntenseQuote style), attribution footer — pure-JS, no server, no dependency - PDF — opens a clean, ad-free print-preview tab and triggers the browser print dialog
- HTML — fully self-contained single file with dark/light mode, no external dependencies
- JSON — structured
{ exporter, version, title, platform, exportedAt, messages[] } - ZIP —
chat.md+ every code block extracted as its own file (snippet-1.py,snippet-2.js, …) - Export All — popup button that simultaneously saves MD + DOCX + ZIP in one click
- Copy MD (
Alt+Shift+C) — Markdown to clipboard instantly - Copy HTML (
Alt+Shift+H) — full standalone HTML to clipboard (paste into N 8000 otion, Confluence, email)
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Alt+Shift+M |
Export Markdown |
Alt+Shift+C |
Copy Markdown |
Alt+Shift+P |
Export PDF |
Alt+Shift+D |
Export DOCX |
Alt+Shift+G |
Upload to GitHub Gist |
Copy HTML, JSON, and ZIP are available via the popup and right-click menu. Chrome caps extensions at 4 keyboard shortcuts; Firefox supports all five.
Right-click any supported page → Export with Inkpour → MD / Copy / JSON / ZIP / Upload to Gist.
Click ⏱ History in the popup footer to see the last 20 exports. Filter by title, platform, or format with fuzzy search (character-by-character ordered match — type cpdf to find "claude pdf"), re-download, or copy any previous export. Star any export to pin it permanently — starred exports survive "Clear all" and are stored separately.
- GitHub Gist — add a Personal Access Token (gist scope) in Settings to unlock the "Gist ↑" popup button and
Alt+Shift+Gshortcut. Created Gists open in a new tab. - Notion — add an integration token + target page ID in Settings to unlock the "Notion ↑" popup button. Appends the export as native Notion blocks (paragraphs, headings, code, quotes, flat lists) to the page you specify. v1 scope — nested lists and tables aren't converted yet.
- Direct-to-vault (Chrome/Edge only) — pick a folder once in Settings via the browser's File System Access API, then MD/DOCX/ZIP exports can write straight there instead of through Downloads. Not available in Firefox/Safari, which keep using the Downloads-subfolder option instead.
- Webhook — POST export metadata to any URL after each export (n8n, Zapier, Make.com, custom endpoints). Toggle "Include content" to send the full exported text.
Faithfully converts the full rich-text DOM:
- Headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code, fenced code blocks with language tags
- Tables (GFM pipe format, numeric columns right-aligned automatically)
- Task lists (
- [x]/- [ ]) with ☑/☐ rendering in HTML and DOCX - Nested lists (arbitrary depth), blockquotes,
<hr> <details>/<summary>→ collapsible blockquote (preserves Claude's extended thinking blocks)- KaTeX / MathJax →
$…$/$$…$$LaTeX math - Citation superscripts (
<a><sup>1</sup></a>) →[^1]footnotes with a Sources: section (Perplexity) <mark>→ bold,<kbd>→code,<abbr title="…">→ word (definition)- Figure + figcaption →
\n*caption* - Images:
data:URIs noted as[embedded image], ephemeralblob:URLs noted as[blob image — not persistent]
Tokens: {platform}, {title}, {date} (YYYY-MM-DD), {time} (HH-MM), {url} (page hostname), {words} (approximate word count).
Default: {platform}-{title}.
- Platform chips in popup highlight the current site
- Eager extraction on popup open — cached result reused for all buttons, no duplicate DOM crawl
- Click the status bar to re-extract (useful after AI finishes generating)
- Message-count peek on open: "Ready · 12 messages · 4u/8a · ~1,800 words · ~9 min read · 3 code blocks"
- Last-export hint: "Last: claude · 12 msgs · MD · 2h ago"
- Source URL included in markdown preamble (and in YAML front matter when enabled)
- Reading time estimate (
~N min read) in the preamble and popup status bar;reading_time_minfield in YAML front matter - Personal notes field (click "+ Add notes"): free-text annotation prepended as a Markdown blockquote in MD/copy/Gist exports, included as a
notesfield in JSON - Selective export: click "☑ Select messages" to open a scrollable checkbox list — export only the turns you want. Quick-select buttons: All, None, User only, AI only
- Streaming guard: warns if the AI is still generating instead of exporting an incomplete response
- Auto-scroll: triggers lazy-loading of older messages on ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI Studio before extraction
- In-page floating button (Shadow DOM, dark-mode aware) — MD / Copy MD / HTML / DOCX / PDF / ZIP without opening the popup (
Alt+Shift+Dexports DOCX directly) - In-page toast notifications for keyboard shortcut feedback
- Default format preference (MD / PDF / HTML / JSON / ZIP)
- Filename template with
{url},{words}support - YAML front matter (title, platform, date, source_url, word count)
- Obsidian tags in YAML front matter (
tags: [ai-chat, {platform}]) - Table of contents for long chats
- Downloads subfolder (downloads into a named subdirectory)
- GitHub token + Gist visibility (secret / public)
- Webhook URL + include-content toggle
Most people should install from the official store listing — it updates itself, no developer mode required:
- Firefox: Inkpour on Firefox Add-ons (AMO)
- Chrome: Inkpour on the Chrome Web Store (Edge and Brave, both Chromium-based, can typically install from the same listing too)
This is for developing Inkpour itself from a git checkout, or trying changes that haven't been published yet — not the easiest path if you just want to use the extension:
| Browser | Load unpacked |
|---|---|
| Firefox | about:debugging → This Firefox → Load Temporary Add-on… → select manifest.json |
| Chrome | chrome://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked → select folder |
| Edge | edge://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked → select folder |
| Brave | brave://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked → select folder |
| Orion (macOS) | Settings → Advanced → enable "Allow installation of 3rd party Chrome extensions", then Tools → Extensions → Manage Extensions → Add Extension → load the folder |
| Safari | Planned, not yet published — see below |
Safari App Store: a build scaffold exists (safari/XCODE_GUIDE.md), but it's not currently maintained toward a store release — packaging through Xcode and keeping it current isn't worth doing speculatively. If you'd use it, 👍 or comment on #3 so real demand can decide when this gets picked up.
Orion: Kagi's WebKit-based macOS/iOS browser. Unlike Safari, it runs Chrome/Firefox extensions directly — no Xcode conversion needed — but it implements its own WebExtensions layer covering ~70% of the API surface as of this writing, so some things may not behave identically to Chrome/Firefox. Not yet verified against a real Inkpour install; treat as untested until someone (or a future session, on an actual Mac) confirms it.
Mobile browsers other than Orion on iOS can't install WebExtensions at all. For those, there's a small standalone mobile bookmarklet — tap it on a ChatGPT or Claude page and it copies the visible conversation to your clipboard as Markdown. It's a deliberately minimal fallback (copy-to-clipboard only, ChatGPT + Claude only, no scroll-to-load) — see bookmarklet/README.md for install steps and limitations.
Just want to use Inkpour? Install it from the store links above — done.
To work on the code instead:
git clone https://github.com/tronicum/inkpour.gitThen follow the "Load unpacked" row for your browser above.
| Symptom | Fix |
|---|---|
| "Content script not running" error | Refresh the chat tab after loading the extension |
| PDF tab shows "Loading…" | Reload the extension in about:debugging, refresh chat tab |
| No messages found | Scroll through the full conversation to trigger lazy-loading |
| Streaming warning | Wait for the AI to finish generating, then export |
How to wire Inkpour's export destinations into the tools you actually keep notes in. All settings named below appear under the extension's Settings page (popup → ⚙, or right-click the extension icon → Options).
Two paths, depending on how much setup you want.
Simplest — download into your vault:
- In Settings, turn on Include YAML front matter and Obsidian tags in YAML (adds
tags: [ai-chat, {platform}]to the front matter). Optionally enable Generate table of contents for long chats. - Export as Markdown and drag the file into your vault — or skip the manual step entirely: set Obsidian vault subfolder to a sub-path of your Downloads folder and point Obsidian at it (or symlink it into your vault). Every Markdown export then lands there automatically. (Obsidian vault subfolder overrides the general Downloads subfolder setting.)
- Adjust Filename template if you want vault-friendly names — tokens:
{platform},{title},{date},{time},{url},{words},{msgcount}.
Direct-to-vault (Chrome/Edge only):
- In Settings → Direct-to-vault, click Choose vault folder… and pick your vault (or a folder inside it). Inkpour remembers the folder via the browser's File System Access API — stored locally, not synced.
- Turn on Write exports directly to this folder. Popup MD/DOCX/ZIP exports now write straight into the vault, bypassing Downloads entirely — no drag, no subfolder. The browser may ask you to re-grant folder permission after a restart.
- Firefox and Safari don't implement the File System Access API — use the subfolder path above there.
Every export with YAML front matter includes type: ai-chat, so Dataview users can query all exported chats with e.g. FROM "" WHERE type = "ai-chat". The front matter also carries platform, messages, words, reading_time_min, date, and source_url.
One-time setup:
- Create an internal integration at notion.so/developers/tokens and paste the token into Notion integration token in Settings.
- Connect the integration to your target page in Notion: open the page → ••• menu → Connections → your integration. Skipping this makes uploads fail with a 404.
- Copy the 32-character ID from the end of the page's URL into Notion page ID (with or without dashes).
With both set, a Notion ↑ button appears in the popup. Clicking it converts the conversation to native Notion blocks (paragraphs, headings, code, quotes, flat lists) and appends them to your page, then opens the page in a new tab. v1 scope: nested lists and tables aren't converted yet. Secrets (API keys, tokens, email addresses) are redacted before upload unless you turn off Scrub secrets before uploads.
The "quick shareable link" workflow. Add a Personal Access Token with the gist scope (and only that scope) to GitHub token in Settings — then the Gist ↑ popup button, the Alt+Shift+G shortcut, and the right-click menu entry upload the conversation as a Markdown Gist and open it in a new tab. Gists are secret by default (unlisted, viewable by anyone with the link); flip Gist visibility to Public if you want them indexed. Gist tags adds your own comma-separated tags to each Gist's YAML header on top of the automatic ai-chat + platform tags, so you can find them later with GitHub's user:you "tag" search. The same pre-upload secret scrubbing applies as for Notion.
Set Webhook URL in Settings and Inkpour POSTs a JSON record (title, platform, format, messageCount, wordCount, exportedAt) to it after every export — enough to drive n8n, Zapier, Make.com, or any custom endpoint. Turn on Include content in webhook to also send the full exported text (popup exports only; keyboard-shortcut and context-menu exports send metadata only). Requests are best-effort — a dead endpoint never breaks the export.
Extraction is purely DOM-based — Inkpour reads what's on screen and doesn't care whether the platform is persisting the conversation on its end. Verified live on ChatGPT's Temporary Chat mode: exports work identically to a normal chat, logged in or not. Equivalent modes on other platforms haven't been individually verified, but the same DOM-only mechanism applies.
Mobile Safari and mobile Chrome can't install WebExtensions, so for phones there's a small standalone bookmarklet: tap it on a ChatGPT or Claude page and it copies the visible conversation to your clipboard as Markdown. That's the entire feature set — no other platforms, no file formats, no settings, no scroll-to-load (scroll through the conversation first so it's all rendered). Install steps and full limitations are in bookmarklet/README.md. On iOS, Orion can run the real extension instead — see Supported browsers.
npm test # Run 159 JSDOM-based extraction and builder tests (no browser needed)inkpour/
├── manifest.json MV3 manifest (28 host_permissions, 8 commands)
├── popup.html / popup.js Popup UI: MD/PDF/HTML/JSON/ZIP/DOCX + Export All + Copy MD/HTML + Gist
├── background.js Service worker: keyboard shortcuts + context menus + webhook
├── settings.html / .js Options page (format, filename, YAML, TOC, subfolder, Gist, webhook)
├── print.html / print.js PDF print-preview tab
├── history.html / .js Export history with fuzzy search, re-download, star/pin
├── safari/ Safari Web Extension build guide + scaffold
├── bookmarklet/ Standalone javascript: bookmarklet for mobile Safari/Chrome (ChatGPT + Claude, copy-Markdown-only)
├── icons/ 16 / 32 / 48 / 128 px PNGs
├── src/
│ ├── content.js Extraction, htmlToMarkdown, in-page button, toasts
│ └── utils.js Shared builders: buildMarkdown, buildDocx, buildFilename, buildZip, …
└── test/
├── run-jsdom.js JSDOM test harness (189 tests, 0 failures)
└── fixtures/ 19 HTML fixtures — one per platform
See planning.md for architecture decisions and next steps.
TypeScript WebExtension for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The AI Studio edit-mode extraction approach (opening the edit button to read raw data-value) came from here. Licensed MIT.
Feature-rich Tampermonkey userscript covering ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Grok with YAML front matter, TOC, keyboard shortcuts, and selective export. Licensed MIT.
Inkpour collects no data and makes no external requests unless you explicitly configure a GitHub token, Notion token, or webhook. Direct-to-vault saving (Chrome/Edge only) writes to a folder you choose and involves no network request at all. See PRIVACY.md for full details.
Works in temporary/incognito chat modes too (verified on ChatGPT's Temporary Chat) — extraction is purely DOM-based, so it doesn't care whether the platform is persisting the conversation on its end.
AGPL-3.0. Portions derived from chat-export by Trifall (MIT) — original copyright retained in LICENSE.