{"slug": "openai-data-exporter-a-local-md-and-pdf-exporter-with-full-size-embedded-images", "title": "OpenAI Data Exporter - A local MD and PDF exporter with full-size embedded images", "summary": "A developer built OpenAI Data Exporter, a standalone HTML tool that converts OpenAI chat history into local MD or PDF files with full-size embedded images. The tool runs entirely in the browser, works offline, and does not upload any data, addressing limitations of the official OpenAI data export for archival purposes.", "body_md": "The official OpenAI data export is fine as a backup, but not great if you actually want to use your conversation history. Because of that, I decided to build something that works better for my own archive.\n\nOpenAI Data Exporter is a standalone HTML tool that extracts each chat as a separate MD or PDF file, or both, and saves available original images and attachments to an Assets folder.\n\nPDF export was one of the main reasons I built it. When the original images are available in the data export, the PDFs use full-size embedded images instead of the tiny thumbnails you usually get.\n\nIt handles individual chats or bulk exports, large archives, selectable PDF text, and optional chat creation/update dates in filenames.\n\nEverything runs locally in your browser. Your chats are not uploaded anywhere. There is no backend, account, telemetry or analytics. It works offline; when you're online, web-linked images can optionally be fetched and embedded in PDFs.\n\nIt's completely free. I built it for my own archive and figured it might be useful to others too.\n\nOpenAI Data Exporter on GitHub:\n\n[https://github.com/zivanovicmarko-stack/OpenAI-Data-Exporter](https://github.com/zivanovicmarko-stack/OpenAI-Data-Exporter)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-data-exporter-a-local-md-and-pdf-exporter-with-full-size-embedded-images", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/marzoopilami/openai-data-exporter-a-local-md-and-pdf-exporter-with-full-size-embedded-images-378n", "published_at": "2026-08-18 12:52:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-18 13:14:59.111200+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "OpenAI Data Exporter", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-data-exporter-a-local-md-and-pdf-exporter-with-full-size-embedded-images", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-data-exporter-a-local-md-and-pdf-exporter-with-full-size-embedded-images.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-data-exporter-a-local-md-and-pdf-exporter-with-full-size-embedded-images.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-data-exporter-a-local-md-and-pdf-exporter-with-full-size-embedded-images.jsonld"}}