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Older chat messages can be found in the “Chats” folder in Gmail. This means that there won’t be messages from before that date in your export. Google switched from Google Talk to Google Hangouts on May 15th, 2013, and the file you get from the Google Takeout export only contains Hangouts chats. Screenshots conversation list HTML view text view XML view CSV view Print viewĭon’t worry, your text will not be all blurry Caveats It will then show you a list of all your Hangouts conversations, be it group or one-to-one chats, and you can then view or download single conversations.

upload it to the parser (zip or extracted JSON).

(optional: extract the JSON file from the.

download your chat history from Google Takeout.

#Restore google hangouts archive zip#

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.

#Restore google hangouts archive 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. TL DR: I’ve written a web tool you can use to view and download your Hangouts chat history.