WA Export
Save WhatsApp Web chats as files.
Select messages, click Export, and get a ZIP for coding agents, or an HTML page, PDF or image for people. Everything runs on your computer.
Firefox 140+ · Firefox for Android 142+ · Chrome soon · Free and open source
How it works
It lives inside WhatsApp Web.
- 01
Select
In a chat, open ⋮ → Select messages and tick the ones you want. Ticks you scroll past are kept.
- 02
Export
Click Export, next to Forward. The ⚙ beside it picks the format, the order and the theme.
- 03
Keep it
One file lands in your downloads, with the photos, voice notes, videos and documents you selected.
Formats
Looks like WhatsApp. Opens anywhere.
HTML, PDF and images keep the WhatsApp look, in light, dark or your system's theme. This is a real HTML export of a fictional chat; scroll it, play the voice note.
HTML
One page that opens in any browser. Photos, stickers, voice notes and videos play; documents download.
PDF
The same look on A4 pages. Text can be searched and copied.
Image
The same look as one PNG or JPEG. Long chats can be split into parts.
ZIP
chat.md,messages.jsonandmedia/with every original file.
For coding agents
Hand a conversation to a coding agent.
The ZIP holds the chat as Markdown and as structured JSON, with every file in media/, linked from where it was sent. Unzip it and point Claude Code, Codex or any agent at the folder: it reads who said what, the replies and the files.
Bamboo team-2026-10-24-1015.zip ├── chat.md ├── messages.json └── media/ ├── 001-photo-mockup.jpg ├── 002-sticker-bao.webp ├── 003-voice-note.ogg ├── 004-release-notes.pdf └── 005-demo-clip.mp4
# WhatsApp export: Bamboo team Exported: 2026-10-24 10:15 · 10 messages --- ## Bao the Panda — 2026-10-24 10:01 Morning! 🎋 Who's trying the **new export** today? ## You — 2026-10-24 10:02 Me! Selecting a few messages now ## Mei — 2026-10-24 10:03 Here's the mockup for v0.2 
Privacy
Read-only. Local. Open source.
- It only reads, and only when you click Export. It never sends, forwards, deletes, reacts to or marks anything as read.
- Nothing goes to a server and there are no analytics. Besides web.whatsapp.com, its only permission is storage, for your settings.
- View-once media is skipped on purpose. Files WhatsApp no longer has are reported, never re-requested from the sender's phone.
- Every file it couldn't save is listed in the export itself. MIT licensed, with every line on GitHub.
Using an unofficial extension with WhatsApp is against its terms of service. This one only reads, but the risk isn't zero. Privacy policy
Export your first chat.
Add to FirefoxOn Chrome? Build it from source until the Chrome Web Store listing is up.