Bold, italic, code, links
WhatsApp’s own markdown - *bold*, _italic_, ~strike~, `code` - plus auto-linked URLs and emails, rendered as real HTML, not asterisks.
Chrome & Edge extension · Live on Edge Add-ons
Every conversation, kept exactly as WhatsApp showed it to you.
WA Rich Export reads the chat you currently have open on WhatsApp Web and writes it to an offline archive on your disk - replies quoted, stickers and photos inline, documents and voice notes attached, group senders labelled. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
What comes back in the .zip
Not a text dump. A chat, still looking like one.
Every message type WhatsApp Web can show you is preserved in the archive, formatted the way it appeared on screen.
Quoted replies that jump to source
Every reply keeps its quote bar. Click one in the archive and it scrolls straight to the original message and highlights it.
Stickers, photos, docs, voice notes
Downloaded through WhatsApp’s own media pipeline and saved next to the archive - images inline, documents as cards, voice notes as playable audio.
Senders, mentions, and forwards
Group exports label who sent what, render @mentions as chips, and flag forwarded messages - same as the WhatsApp Web UI.
Matches WhatsApp Web’s own theme
The export panel follows WhatsApp Web’s light or dark mode live, and the archive itself renders as a WhatsApp-style HTML page you open with a double-click.
You choose how far back
Last 1,000 messages for a quick save, 5,000 for a fuller thread, or everything this WhatsApp Web session has already synced - your call, every export.
How the export actually happens
The same four steps you’d see in the panel.
No screen-scraping. The extension talks to WhatsApp Web’s own in-page data layer, in this order, every time. Watch it happen →
01
Read from WhatsApp’s own Store
A script runs inside the WhatsApp Web page itself and reads the open chat straight out of WhatsApp’s internal WAWebCollections module - the same decrypted data the page already has in memory.
02
Structure the timeline
Messages, replies, mentions and forwards are normalized into one ordered JSON timeline before anything gets rendered.
03
Fetch the media
Stickers, images, documents and voice notes are pulled through WhatsApp’s own downloadMedia path - best-effort, since only cached, decryptable media can be recovered.
04
Package the archive
Everything is written into index.html, styles.css, chat.json and a media/ folder, then zipped and handed to your browser’s normal download flow.
Nothing you export ever leaves your machine.
The extension asks for exactly one host permission - web.whatsapp.com - and makes no network requests of its own. Read the full privacy policy.
1host permission requested
0analytics or tracking scripts
0servers involved in an export
4media types recovered inline
Your chats are already on your screen. Keep them properly.
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