Managing ChatGPT's Chat Logs

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Throughout this blog I share some of the conversations I have with ChatGPT, but I'd gotten out of the routine and amassed a long list of conversations - this list was also difficult to make a copy of. In addition to this, ChatGPT was providing no up-front "date of conversation" information; two things that were hindering my desire to get back on track.

ChatGPT informed me "You can view exact timestamps if you export your ChatGPT data..." so:

Step 1: Export your ChatGPT chat data:

  • Go to Settings → Data controls
  • Choose Export data

You’ll get a ZIP file by email [the link to download arrived within a few minutes in my case, the file contains everything, including created and shared images, so it can be pretty large].

Inside it ... [you will find] the file:

conversations.json [mine was 20MB, spanning some 700~ conversations...]

Each conversation includes fields such as... UNIX timestamps [which] can be converted into exact human-readable dates.

 

Step 2: Extract the list of conversations with [human-readable] dates:

[Using Linux... and this is the neat part]

ChatGPT created this Python script for me:

import json
import csv
from datetime import datetime

input_file = "conversations.json"
output_file = "conversation_list.csv"

def convert(ts):
    try:
        return datetime.fromtimestamp(ts).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
    except:
        return "Unknown"

with open(input_file, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    data = json.load(f)

with open(output_file, "w", newline="", encoding="utf-8") as out:
    writer = csv.writer(out)
    writer.writerow(["Title", "Created"])
    for convo in data:
        title = convo.get("title", "Untitled")
        ts = convo.get("create_time")
        readable = convert(ts) if ts else "Unknown"
        writer.writerow([title, readable])

print("Done! CSV saved to", output_file)


Put that script in a file called: export_chats.py

Put that file with in the same location as the downloaded and unzipped conversations.json file

Right-click within the folder and choose: Open Terminal Here

Then use this command: python3 export_chats.py

You will now have conversation_list.csv which you can open in LibreOffice Calc.

 

Final Tip: 

chat.html contains the conversations in a more friendly format than the web interface.
 

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