How to export a Telegram chat

Telegram’s phone apps have no export button. Telegram Desktop, the app for Windows, Mac and Linux, can save any chat as a file in a minute.

1. 1

   Get Telegram Desktop

   Install it from desktop.telegram.org and log in by scanning the QR code with Telegram on your phone.

2. 2

   Open the chat

   Click the one-to-one chat or group you want Marco to read.

3. 3

   Click ⋮, then “Export chat history”

   The three dots are at the top right of the chat.

4. 4

   Leave the media out

   Under “Media export settings”, untick “Photos” and the other media. Marco only needs the text, and the export is much faster.

5. 5

   Choose JSON

   Under “Location and format”, set the format to “Machine-readable JSON”.

6. 6

   Click “Export”

   When Telegram says “Your data was successfully exported”, click “Show my data” to open the folder.

7. 7

   Upload result.json

   On HeyMarco, pick Telegram and upload the file called result.json from that folder.

• Already exported as HTML? Zip the whole export folder and upload the ZIP: Marco reads Telegram’s HTML export too.
• Exported your whole account from Settings, Advanced, “Export Telegram data”? Upload result.json and Marco will ask which chat to read.