ChatGPT2Md

Log in to chatgpt.com, click your profile icon, go to Settings > Data controls > Export data, confirm the export, and wait for the email from OpenAI. Download the ZIP file from the link in that email. The ZIP contains conversations.json with all your chat history.

Download a pre-built binary for your platform from the GitHub Releases page, extract it, and move it to your PATH. Alternatively, build from source if you have Rust 1.85+ installed.

# macOS / Linux via pre-built binary
tar xzf chatgpt2md-*.tar.gz
sudo mv chatgpt2md /usr/local/bin/

# Or build from source (requires Rust 1.85+)
cargo install --git https://github.com/NextStat/chatgpt2md

Run chatgpt2md with your export ZIP to convert all conversations to Markdown files organized by year/month and build a full-text search index. Output goes to ./chatgpt_chats/ by default.

chatgpt2md export.zip

# Custom output directory
chatgpt2md export.zip -o ~/Documents/chatgpt_history

# Flat structure (no year/month folders)
chatgpt2md export.zip --flat

Run the install command to auto-configure both Claude Desktop and Claude Code. This writes the MCP server entry to the appropriate config files. After running this command, restart Claude Desktop for changes to take effect.

chatgpt2md install --index ./chatgpt_chats/.index --chats ./chatgpt_chats

If you prefer to configure manually, add the following entry to your claude_desktop_config.json. Adjust the paths to match where your converted chats and index are stored.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chatgpt2md": {
      "command": "chatgpt2md",
      "args": ["serve", "--index", "/absolute/path/chatgpt_chats/.index", "--chats", "/absolute/path/chatgpt_chats"]
    }
  }
}