--- title: Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts description: scrapemychats is an open-source Python tool that exports ChatGPT conversations — including those from business and Team accounts that lack an official export... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/free-way-to-get-your-data-out-of-chatgpt-business-accounts-drgvlcjax twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts | daily.dev og:description: scrapemychats is an open-source Python tool that exports ChatGPT conversations — including those from business and Team accounts that lack an official export... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/free-way-to-get-your-data-out-of-chatgpt-business-accounts-drgvlcjax og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DrGVLcJax.png og:image:alt: Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary scrapemychats is an open-source Python tool that exports ChatGPT conversations — including those from business and Team accounts that lack an official export button — to a local offline archive. It drives a real Chrome window using your existing session, captures conversation JSON, attachments, and generated files, then builds a self-contained single-file HTML viewer with full-text search, categories, and keyboard navigation. The tool is resumable, rate-limit-aware, and keeps all data on your machine. Detailed setup instructions are provided for both Windows and Mac, including a beginner-friendly walkthrough. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community take How the wider developer community reacted, aggregated from 1 discussion and 13 comments across hackernews (as of 2026-07-24). **TL;DR:** The community is largely appreciative of this small tool that works around ChatGPT Business accounts' lack of data export, with several commenters sharing similar frustrations and workarounds of their own. **Sentiment:** 70% positive · 20% mixed · 10% skeptical **The case for** - Fills a real gap since ChatGPT Business accounts lack a built-in data export feature - Commenters confirmed the problem is widespread, validating the tool's usefulness **The pushback** - Even personal ChatGPT accounts lack basic export options (copy whole chat, PDF, HTML, markdown), suggesting the problem is broader than just Business accounts - The tool requires manual setup steps that could be simplified with `uv run` directly from a GitHub URL **By community** - hackernews (positive): Commenters are grateful for the tool and share related workarounds (custom Chrome extensions, Tailscale Aperture), while also venting about ChatGPT's poor data portability in general. **Open questions** - Are there equivalent tools for extracting data from Claude and Gemini accounts? - Could the setup be simplified further using `uv run` directly from a GitHub URL? **Highlights** > Infuriatingly, ChatGPT doesn't allow you to easily export your data from Business accounts (upgrades from personal accounts) like it does with personal or Enterprise accounts. I built a little tool that lets you get the data out. Might help someone out > — [conradqh on hackernews · 3 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023487) > I found myself in a similar boat (converted a personal ChatGPT sub to a Business Account shared with my partner). I ended up using Claude it write a chrome extension to just walk every chat in the side navbar and dump it to a sqlite database (when I then used for my own RAG purposes). Thanks for publishing your work. > — [nemosaltat on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026196) > The more crazy is that even for a personal account, there is not a single button that would allow you to copy a whole chat or do something like export it in pdf, html, markdown, ... > — [greatgib on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029776) > That whole "not a programmer" section -- missed opportunity for uv run from GitHub URL.... which works. Including dependencies. Try it: uv run https://raw.githubusercontent.com/konstin/say-hi/refs/heads/main/say-hi.py Look ma, no installs, no pip, no requirements.txt... Friends tell friends: uv run > — [Terretta on hackernews · 1 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028179) **Source threads** - [hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023486) · 70 points · 13 comments ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-won-t-let-some-customers-export-their-chats-but-this-tool-will-yuh5funbu) · The Register · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [ChatGPT Web Scraping: The Complete 2026 Guide \(Python\)](https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-web-scraping-the-complete-2026-guide-python--g77dbdwrf) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt), [#crawling](https://daily.dev/tags/crawling) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/free-way-to-get-your-data-out-of-chatgpt-business-accounts-drgvlcjax) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/free-way-to-get-your-data-out-of-chatgpt-business-accounts-drgvlcjax","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/free-way-to-get-your-data-out-of-chatgpt-business-accounts-drgvlcjax"},"datePublished":"2026-07-23T17:09:26.649Z","dateModified":"2026-07-24T06:56:55.643Z","description":"scrapemychats is an open-source Python tool that exports ChatGPT conversations — including those from business and Team accounts that lack an official export...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/0af15d43ab4eb66b38ba18b478836c5e?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/0af15d43ab4eb66b38ba18b478836c5e?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/free-way-to-get-your-data-out-of-chatgpt-business-accounts-drgvlcjax","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"python,automation,chatgpt,crawling","timeRequired":"PT8M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts"}]} ```