How to export Google AI Studio conversations

Google AI Studio has no built-in way to turn a conversation into a Markdown, PDF or Word file. If you have a long chat with attachments that you want to keep, search later or send to someone, you have four realistic options. This guide covers each one, what it keeps and what it loses, so you can pick the right one for the chat in front of you.

#The short answer

If you want a readable file with the attachments, use an extension. If you only need a backup of the raw conversation and nothing else, the Drive file is enough.

#Why there is no export button

AI Studio is built for trying prompts and models, not for archiving them. Chats live in your account, and the page only keeps the part of a long conversation that is on screen at any moment, which is also why tools that copy what the page shows can miss messages in the middle of a long chat.

#1. Use a browser extension

This is the only route that gives you a readable document with the attachments in it. AI Studio Exporter is a free, open source Chrome extension that does it.

1. Install it from the Chrome Web Store.
2. Open the conversation you want on aistudio.google.com.
3. Click the extension's icon in your toolbar.
4. Pick a format and click Export this conversation.

The file downloads to your usual downloads folder. A conversation with no attachments is a single file. One with attachments is a ZIP holding the document and an attachments/ folder. What lands in your downloads shows exactly what is inside.

How it differs from tools that copy what is on the page: it reads the same data AI Studio's own page loads, rather than scrolling and scraping. That means a 200-message conversation exports in under a second, nothing in the middle is skipped, and attachments come out as the actual files rather than the small previews the page draws. It also keeps the model's reasoning separate from its answers, and the model, temperature, system instruction, timestamps and token counts, each of which you can switch off.

Markdown, JSON and plain text are free. HTML, PDF, Word, Obsidian, CSV and JSONL, whole-library export and scheduled backups need a one-time Pro licence. Everything, Pro included, is open source under the MIT licence, and nothing leaves your browser.

Other extensions and userscripts exist. Whichever you choose, read the permissions it asks for and where it sends your data, because a chat can contain private material.

#2. Download the file from Google Drive

When AI Studio's autosave to Drive is on, your chats are saved in your Google Drive. It is the one route Google itself provides, and it costs nothing.

1. Open Google Drive and look for the folder AI Studio created.
2. Download the file for the chat you want.
3. The downloaded file may have no extension. It is JSON, so add .json to the name to open it in a text editor.

What you get is a raw record of the conversation: the turns, the model settings and the system instruction. It is accurate, but it is a data file, not a document, and it does not read like a conversation. Attached files are referenced rather than saved next to it, and it is not meant for humans. It is a good backup. It is a poor thing to send to a colleague.

A chat that is not in Drive was not saved there, and Google's own forum staff have said such a chat cannot be recovered. Check that autosave is on before you rely on this route.

#3. Copy and paste

Select the conversation, copy it and paste it into a document. For a short chat this is the fastest way and needs nothing installed.

It breaks down with length and with content. Code blocks and tables often lose their formatting, attachments do not come with it, and because the page only holds the messages near the part you are looking at, you may need to scroll and copy in sections to be sure you got everything.

#4. Use a userscript

Free scripts for a userscript manager such as Tampermonkey can add a download button to AI Studio and produce Markdown. They are a reasonable choice if you already use a userscript manager and only want Markdown.

The trade-offs are that you maintain them yourself when AI Studio changes, they usually do not fetch attachments, and a script runs with access to the page, so read it before you install it.

#Which should you use?

• You want a clean file you can read, search or send, with the attachments: an extension.
• You want one more copy of the raw data and nothing else: the Drive file.
• It is five messages long: copy and paste.
• You already live in a userscript manager: a userscript, for Markdown.

#Questions

#Can I export all my AI Studio chats at once?

Yes, with the extension's whole-library export, which is part of Pro. It downloads every conversation in one archive with an index, and it splits very large libraries into several archives. See back up all your AI Studio chats.

#Does it export chats from the Gemini app?

No. It works on Google AI Studio (aistudio.google.com) only, not on gemini.google.com.

#Will the images and files come with it?

With the extension, yes: they are downloaded as the real files and placed in an attachments/ folder next to the document. See download AI Studio attachments.

#Is exporting my own chats allowed?

You are saving your own conversations from your own account, using the same requests your browser already makes while you use AI Studio. This guide is not legal advice, and Google's terms are Google's to interpret, so read them if it matters for your use.

#Which format should I pick?

Markdown for almost everything. Markdown, PDF, Word, Obsidian and the rest compared has the details, and the PDF and Word guide and the Obsidian guide cover those two.