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Google Voice Chat Exporter

Save a Google Voice conversation, with every message, sender, timestamp and photo, as one file you can keep, print or share.

Install the Scriptfrom Greasy Fork · needs a userscript manager View on GitHub

Chrome, Edge and Firefox on desktop · with Violentmonkey or Tampermonkey · Install steps

Download this page as .mdz

The Google Voice Chat Exporter lets you...

  • Save a Google Voice conversation as one file: every message, who sent it, when, and the photos
  • Export the whole history, chosen years or a date range, and split long conversations into one file per year
  • Read the result in any Markdown viewer, print it to PDF, or open it with the ZIP tools you already have

It runs in your browser, on the Google Voice page you already have open, and saves the conversation as MDZip (.mdz). Your messages aren't sent anywhere: the exporter reads the conversation from the page, downloads its photos from Google, and saves the file on your computer.

MDZip Studio showing an exported Google Voice conversation: the file pane lists the conversation, its photos and contact pictures inside the one .mdz file, and your own messages sit on the right

Why you need it

Google Voice has no way to save a conversation. You can take screenshots one screen at a time, or ask Google Takeout for a copy of your data, which has problems of its own:

  • It's all or nothing. Takeout exports every call, text and voicemail with every contact. You can't pick one conversation or a date range.
  • One conversation becomes hundreds of files. Texts come as a separate web page for each messaging session, so a contact you text often turns into dozens or hundreds of files to sort and stitch back together.
  • You wait. Google builds the export in the background and emails you when it's ready.

Takeout is the right choice for a full backup of your account. To save one conversation, use the exporter.

Install

  1. Install a userscript manager. It's a browser extension that runs small scripts on the sites you choose. Violentmonkey and Tampermonkey work in Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
  2. Open the exporter on Greasy Fork and choose Install this script. Your userscript manager shows what it is and asks you to confirm the install.
  3. Open (or reload) voice.google.com.

Your userscript manager installs updates automatically.

Export a conversation

Google Voice with a conversation open: the export icon beside the contact's name, circled, with its tip "Export this conversation to MDZip"

The export dialog: export the entire conversation split into one file per year, selected years, or a date range, as .mdz or .zip, with an editable file name
  1. Open the conversation in Google Voice.
  2. Click the export icon in the conversation's header. You can also start it from your userscript manager's menu.
  3. Choose what to export: the entire conversation, selected years, or a date range. Long conversations are split into one file per year unless you turn that off.
  4. Choose Export and leave the tab open. The exporter scrolls back through the conversation to load its history, which can take a while for a long one, then downloads the file.

You get a file named after the conversation and the date, such as gv-export-alex-rivera-2026-08-16.mdz. You can change the name in the export dialog.

Open the file

An .mdz is a ZIP file holding the conversation as Markdown text, plus the photos and other attachments it shows.

  • In your browser: drop it on the MDZip editor. Files open on your computer; nothing is uploaded.
  • In an app: MDZip Studio on Windows and Linux, or the VS Code and Obsidian plugins.
  • Without any MDZip tool: rename it to .zip and extract it, or choose .zip in the export dialog to begin with. Open index.md in any Markdown editor, or look through the images folder.

An export open in the MDZip editor in the browser, with its photos and contact pictures

To keep a printed copy or a PDF, open the file in any of these and print it.

What's in the file

gv-export-alex-rivera-2026-08-16.mdz
├── index.md          the conversation, one heading per day
├── images/           the photos, named by date and sender
├── assets/           other attachments, such as videos
├── manifest.json     title and export time
├── README.md         what this file is, for anyone without MDZip tools
├── AGENTS.md         how AI assistants should read it
└── diagnostics.json  counts from the export, for troubleshooting

Because the conversation is plain text, you can search it, paste it into Word, or hand it to an AI assistant, and it stays readable whatever happens to Google Voice.

Good to know

  • It exports the conversation you have open, one at a time. There's no way to export every conversation at once (use Google Takeout for that).
  • Keep the tab open while it runs. Google Voice only loads older messages as it scrolls back, so long conversations take time.
  • It reads the page as you see it. Google Voice has no export feature to build on, so if Google changes the page, the exporter may miss something until it's updated. When something can't be read, the file says so.
  • The file holds the conversation as it is, names and phone numbers included. Nothing is removed or blurred, so check it before you share it.
  • In Chrome and Edge, your userscript manager may need Allow User Scripts or Developer mode turned on before scripts run. Its setup page explains how.
  • The exporter isn't made by or affiliated with Google. Google Voice is a trademark of Google LLC.

More

This page renders from google-voice.mdz (MDZip, ~166 KB, updated 2026-11-02) — one self-contained file. Download it, open it in the web editor, or read how these pages are made.