#Settings

What each setting changes, and which formats it changes. All of them are in the extension's options page.

Settings are applied to the conversation before any formatter runs, so they affect every format identically unless noted. Statistics are recomputed afterwards: exclude reasoning and the export's own message count drops to match.

#Content

#Reasoning (scrapeReasoning): on

Include the model's thinking, not just its answers.

Off removes those turns entirely. On, each format handles them differently:

#Images (scrapeImages): on

#Other attachments (scrapeAttachments): on

Whether to download image attachments, and whether to download everything else. Split because "keep the screenshots, skip the 40 MB of CSVs" is a common want.

The two are decided by MIME type, not extension. Anything excluded is counted, not forgotten: the message still says 2 attachments not included in export, and the JSON carries excludedAttachments: 2. Without that, a message whose only content was an excluded file renders as a bare heading, which reads as a bug.

Turning both off also skips the downloads, which is the fastest way to export a large conversation.

#Condense attachments (condenseAttachments): on

AI Studio files each attachment as its own message, so a question sent with three screenshots is stored as four messages: three carrying only a file, then one carrying the text.

On, each run of attachment-only messages is folded into the message it was sent with, matching what you actually did. Token counts are summed and the earliest timestamp wins, so no numbers change.

Off, AI Studio's own structure is preserved. Useful if you are reconciling an export against the API, and misleading otherwise: it produces headed blocks with nothing under them.

A trailing attachment with no message after it is never folded; there is nothing to fold it into, and dropping it would lose the file.

#Metadata

These control fields AI Studio's backend exposes but its page does not render. All default on; each is individually switchable because some people want a clean transcript and nothing else.

In JSON, a field switched off is absent, not null; null is reserved for "AI Studio had no value". See data reference.

CSV always emits all nine columns; a disabled field leaves its cell empty rather than dropping the column, so the file stays parseable.

#Format-specific

#jsonlIncludeReasoning: off

JSONL only. Off, reasoning turns are dropped from the dataset; training on a model's private thinking as if it were the reply teaches it to emit thinking as output. On, each reasoning turn becomes an assistant message and merges into the answer beside it.

#Other

#defaultFormat: markdown

Which format the popup preselects.

#Theme (theme): system

system, dark or light. Changes nothing about an export; it is the only setting here that does not.

It applies to every surface the extension owns: the popup, this settings page, its dialogs, and the progress overlay drawn over AI Studio during an export. The overlay follows this setting rather than AI Studio's own, so a dark extension on a light AI Studio stays dark.

system follows the operating system and updates live if the OS switches while a page is open. Unlike everything else here, choosing a theme applies immediately rather than on Save: it is the one setting whose result is already on screen, so making it wait would mean picking a theme you cannot see.

#DOM fallback only

These four apply solely when the API path is unavailable and the page has to be scraped instead. A normal export ignores them, because the API returns the real file rather than what the page happened to render.

#What settings cannot fix

Some things are limits of the format, not of a toggle: