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How to export Grok chats to PDF, Word or Markdown

Grok runs in two places, grok.com and inside X, and neither has a button that saves one conversation as a file. xAI offers an account-level download of your data from Settings. Backup My AI Chat exports the open Grok conversation on either site to PDF, Word, Markdown, text, JSON or image, and Auto-save keeps every Grok chat, generated images included, as files in a folder.

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Grok's options at a glance

OptionCoversYou getMain limit
Data download in SettingsYour accountYour data, from grok.com or the Grok appRaw account data; xAI does not document the format or timing
Share linkOne chatA public pageNot a file
Backup My AI ChatOne chat, or all of themPDF, Word, Markdown, text, JSON or image; Markdown files kept up to dateDesktop Chrome and Edge only

xAI's data download

xAI's legal FAQ says to go to the Grok mobile app or grok.com, under Settings and Data Controls, to delete or download your data (xAI FAQ). The FAQ does not say what format the download takes or how long it takes to arrive, so treat it as a raw copy for safekeeping, not as documents to read.

One chat as a file, with Backup My AI Chat

  1. Add Backup My AI Chat to Chrome or Edge and open the conversation on grok.com or at x.com/i/grok. The extension works on both.
  2. Press Export and choose PDF, Word, Markdown, text, JSON or image.
  3. To keep only some messages, open Custom Export and tick the ones you want.

Headings, lists, tables, code blocks and links keep their formatting. Files are made in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Every Grok chat, kept in a folder

Auto-save writes each Grok conversation to a folder as a Markdown file and keeps it current. Images that Grok generated in a chat are saved next to it, in a _files folder, and linked from the Markdown.

  1. Open Backup My AI Chat from the browser toolbar and go to Auto-save chats to a folder.
  2. Under Folder, choose a folder on your computer. Chrome asks once whether the extension may edit files in that folder. Auto-save writes nowhere else; one-off exports go to your Downloads folder.
  3. Under Accounts, tick the services to include. Each one shows whether you are signed in.
  4. Under Sync, pick how often to check for new and updated chats, then press Sync now. The first run saves your whole history; later runs save only what changed. A service is synced a few chats at a time, and if a site answers "too many requests" the extension slows down for that service rather than failing.
The Sync settings of Backup My AI Chat: check every 3 hours, save after leaving a chat tab, include thinking blocks, save images and uploaded files, and leave edited files alone
The Sync settings. “Overwrite files I have edited” is off by default, so a file you have changed is left as it is.

Grok chats go into a Grok subfolder, next to the folders for your other assistants. Each file is ordinary Markdown whose header lists title, source, conversation id, link, created, updated, model, message count and tags, followed by the conversation with one heading per message.

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Questions

Can I export a Grok conversation from X?

Yes. Backup My AI Chat works on Grok inside X (x.com/i/grok) as well as on grok.com. Open the conversation and press Export.

Does Grok have a built-in export?

Not for a single conversation. xAI offers a download of your account data from Settings and Data Controls, and share links for individual chats.

Are the images Grok made saved too?

Yes, with Auto-save. Generated images are saved in a _files folder next to the chat and linked from the Markdown, once you have allowed access to Grok's image server.

Can I export all my Grok chats at once?

Auto-save in Backup My AI Chat saves every Grok chat as a Markdown file on its first run. Bulk Export then turns the saved chats into PDF or Word files.