My Chat Saver Chrome Extension – Feedback Wanted!

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Hey Access Forum crew,

I’m excited to share a little project I’ve been working on: the “My Chat Saver” Chrome extension! 🎉

This tool combines two separate extensions I originally built—one for saving ChatGPT chats (https://chatgpt.com/*) and another for Grok chats (https://x.com/i/grok*)—into a single, streamlined package. With plenty of help from both ChatGPT and Grok along the way, I merged them into one extension that lets you capture your conversations and save them as .txt files, complete with an optional custom prefix for easy organization (e.g., MeetingNotes_Grok_Chat_20250224.txt).

Here’s the scoop:​

  • What It Does: Works seamlessly on both ChatGPT and Grok pages. Just open the extension, add a prefix if you like, click “Save Chat,” and download the conversation as a text file.
  • Caveat: No promises it’ll work forever—OpenAI and xAI could change their URLs or page structures at any time. As of Feb 24, 2025, it’s running smoothly, but stay alert for updates.
  • Why Share: I’d love your feedback. Try it out, stress-test it, and let me know if it captures the full chat or if you’d like to see new features. Suggestions are more than welcome!
A big thanks to ChatGPT and Grok—without their nudges, code tweaks, and brainstorming help, this extension wouldn’t exist. What started as two separate tools has now become one unified solution, and building it has been a blast.

👉 Grab the zip [link here], follow the install steps, and let me know what you think. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
 
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Good for you - I am interested in how to do this, as Chrome extensions are very in-vogue and never going out of style, I bet! I'm almost curious how they're made and how much programming saavy they require, and in what language..Might have to study up a little.

I've never used Grok, but ChatGPT has a built-in archive of everything you've ever asked plus a search function. However I suppose saving them as text files could be useful in cases where, for example, you weren't logged in , or plan to delete the chat because it's so da*m naughty!

Can this extension go in the Chrome extension store or is that a very high barrier?
 
One thing that would be super is the ability to browse for the destination folder for save.

I don't know about others, but the first thing I do on a new computer/new Chrome installation is change the downloads behavior from defaulting to 'downloads' to be somewhere intelligible that I really want, (usually Desktop). So anything that defaults to Downloads would a) confuse me as I would forget there is some kind of Download that I hvaen't already changed via Chrome settings, and b) be more annoying.
 
1. 20250225T170850Z does this time format include seconds? If so good, just wanted to make sure

2. Chat Saved Successfully occurred first, and then a Save As dialogue box popped up for me (my chrome is set to ask where to download everything to) - which is perfect! Not to be picky but if you wanted to, knowing then that this will be the behavior for some users, you could change 'Chat Saved Successfully' to 'Chat Generated Successfully' - since after that point the file MAY either be saved to their Downloads OR, as in my case, the Save As dialogue might have just popped up and be sitting there

It's pretty nifty, worked great for me. Thanks for sharing this accomplishment. I've become interested in the concept of making a chrome extension and learning javascript from the inspiration therefrom.
 
Isaac said:
1. 20250225T170850Z does this time format include seconds? If so good, just wanted to make sure
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The TZ part is the time. That string is 2025-02-25 17:08:50
 
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Uncle Gizmo said:
My first efforts in creating the Chrome extension were done with the aid of ChatGPT and it was quite a laborious process! - ChatGPT wrote the code and often wrote it badly!! I don't take any credit for the code, I couldn't write a Chrome extension to Save My Life! I could probably modify one - slightly!

My task was to manage ChatGPT and make sure it followed my rules... This in itself is difficult because it will break the rules on a whim!!

If you want to use ChatGPT to help you write a Chrome extension then I would advise against it if you don't know how to write a Chrome extension yourself...

I would recommend that first you use ChatGPT to help you with MS Access VBA code, as you will more easily spot the errors it makes... Once you've seen how it behaves in an environment you know and are familiar with then you will have better results with it in composing unfamiliar code...

Alternatively wait six months! I'm pretty sure that the large language models are getting better and better, and very soon you will just say do this and it will do it!
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Very interesting. I agree about the just asking ChatGTP to write the code, I wouldn't actually do that I don't think - my plan was to get inspired (maybe) to start learning Javascript as a starting point.
 
Tony, that chatgpt link does not work. Errant /c with it.
 
In Extensions on your extension, I have Errors in red.
Clicking on that shows me ??? but it appears to be working OK?
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Well I might ask for tips, like I would with a quick Google.
Perhaps the lazy people who cannot be bothered to even google might try ChatGPT?, though I doubt it. :(
 
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