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ZIP with CSVs, all conversations as single CSV files, bundled in a.CSV download, this can be opened in Excel, LibreOffice Calc etc.

XLSX download, all conversations in a single Excel 2007 (Office Open XML) document.

XML view, in a textbox, to be copy-pasted somewhere.

Text view, shows the chat in an IRC-like format that you could copy paste to a text editor.

HTML view, displays the chat nicely formatted in a messenger-like style so you can easily read through it (features clickable links, embedded images etc.).

It offers the following views and download options: I spent some time analyzing the structure of that JSON and wrote a parser in PHP to turn the JSON into different useful formats. This makes the file unreadable and messy (note that there is not even one actual chat message in the part I screencaptured).

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This file is full of unnecessary rubbish, I estimate less than 10% of the file contents are actual chat messages, the rest is metadata such as participant IDs, conversation IDs, read status, timestamps, and lots of other things.

#SOO ALL GOOGLE HANGOUTS HISTORY ARCHIVE#

zip archive containing a file which contains the chat data, JSON encoded. your g-mails, calendar data, contacts, Google+ posts… and Hangouts conversations.

One of Google’s several tools, Google Takeout, allows you to download all your Google account related data, i.e. Yet there is a way to access that data, it’s just not as trivial as clicking an “export to. It seems, however, that Hangouts cannot do this – there is no export/archive function whatsoever. WhatsApp for example lets you send conversation histories via e-mail, which is great. If you had a couple of long conversations, this can take quite a while, and even when you do this, the output produced by selecting all and copy pasting the chat to a text editor is ugly and not useful. Then again, scroll up, and it will load some more. If you scroll up more than that, it dynamically loads more messages from the server.

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Since I do not have Gmail, I can’t tell how accessible or not the chat history is in the Gmail web interface, but in the Chrome app, Android app and the chat box on the Google+ website, you can only see the last 50 or so messages. You can read them, grep them, search for links, nicknames, everything.

Now I am used to using IRC (Internet Relay Chat), which is kind of oldschool but – depending on the chat client configuration – can log everything to text files. Sometimes you want to re-read some conversation you’ve had, or search for something the chat partner has said, like a link to a website. However, a major downside for me is the inability to export your chat. This is a thing I like about Hangouts, it happens on all my devices and I can hop in and out of a conversation wherever I am at that time. On my smartphone, I mainly use WhatsApp and Threema, but both lack other clients so far WhatsApp web can only be used from one device at a time, and Threema lacks a web/desktop client, so communication is limited to using the smartphone which is somewhat annoying for longer conversations.

Google Hangouts as messaging platform has some advantages over other often used services. Click this link and follow the instructions. For more details, check out Google's blog posts on Google Chat and Google Workspace.TL DR: I’ve written a web tool you can use to view and download your Hangouts chat history. Google Chat (and Google Meet) and Workspace are coming for everyone, which should mean an improved experience and more features for users, even if the changes take some getting used to. You can stick with Hangouts and a non-Workspace experience for a little while longer, but Google is only going in one direction with this, and it's taking everyone along with it-paying and non-paying users alike.

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It's a sort of halfway point between consumers who use Google's apps for free and businesses with large Workspace teams. This switch will be available to everyone, for free, but later this year we'll get Google Workspace Individual, a subscription for $10 a month that will be aimed at freelancers and entrepreneurs, which will offer additional tools such as email marketing and smart booking services, powered by Google's AI tools. (Oh, and you might see the word "Workspace" more often.) Although it's taken us a long time to explain what's happening, in terms of what you'll see as a user there isn't going to be a huge swathe of changes: The tools you already use will get a few upgrades, a cleaner look, and better integration with each other. It's appropriate, then, that you can activate Google Workspace for your account by turning on Google Chat in Gmail: From the Chat and Meet tab of the Gmail Settings page, select Google Chat next to Chat.