Export messages from Teams Chat?

Anonymous
2020-03-18T23:21:54+00:00

I'm wondering if it is possible to export conversations in Teams?  Also I'm just having trouble organizing my Team chats and finding messages from more than a month or two ago?  Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-05-14T12:46:37+00:00

    This thread is not  about migrating chats (by IT), but about exporting and/or saving them (by the user).

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-02-13T16:59:26+00:00

    Here is the workaround that works best for me:

    1. Start with blank doc in one window; Teams chat in another.
    2. Note that each message of a chat conversation appears in its own selectable CHAT BOX. Therefore, in the Teams chat window, place the cursor in the first chat box you want to export. Do not select anything. Just click anywhere inside that box.
    3. Now, holding down the SHIFT key, use the DOWN arrow to jump to the next chat box. The first box should become fully selected(!).
    4. Continue hitting the DOWN arrow until it becomes unresponsive. Several chat boxes will have been selected and it has reached its limit.
    5. COPY then PASTE to the document.
    6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 until entire chat is copied.

    (This works on the client and web versions of MS Teams on a PC.)

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-01-26T02:34:31+00:00

    Hi All,

    Greetings. And thanks for your all feedbacks.

    We also look forward to the release of this feature and had never been forgetting monitoring it.

    As we discussed before, the Teams Export API is in development, so far there is no ETA. For your reference (Feature 68731) here.

    Meanwhile, it's also recommended you post a comment or vote the idea from @fasteddie(2) in Teams Uservoice.

    Also, we welcome you to continue to share your ideas here.

    Your patience and understanding are highly appreciated.

    Regards,

    Rudy

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-01-22T18:24:31+00:00

    My organization only retains the last 2 weeks of chat history, so I have yet to have a problem with my method...  I guess that makes the policy strangely work out for me in this case. 

    It is silly that MS cannot offer basic data exportability function...

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-01-20T15:38:56+00:00

    There is this Chrome Extension called SingleFile which beautifully saves the entire Teams chat, after it has been selected with the mouse, by right-clicking on the selection and saving the selection from there via the SingleFile context menu (open Teams in the Chrome browser for that purpose), as a self-contained html file that contains everything including any images.

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