How to download chat history on Facebook

With just a few steps below, you can download your Facebook chat history and save every conversation you want. No need to be a technology genius, anyone who knows how to use Facebook can do this. Chat with your ex or important business messages will not be lost.

Download Facebook data to save the conversation

If you want to download everything in a conversation, including photos, this is the way for you. By downloading Facebook data, you can download your friends list, posts, messages, photos .

After logging in to your Facebook account, select General Settings in the right corner. Scroll down, you will see the option to download a copy of Facebook data. After selecting, a new page will appear with the Download Archive button .

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Click on it, Facebook will display a message saying that it is collecting information. Just wait a moment, you'll see a link sent to your Facebook inbox to download everything you need.

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Click Start My Archive, you will need to re-enter the password for security reasons. A ZIP file containing all your Facebook data will be downloaded to your computer. There is also an HTLA folder named messages.htm containing all conversations in block format.

Download a chat section on Facebook

If you don't need to download all Facebook chat history, there is a Chrome utility called Message / Chat Downloader that allows you to download a certain chat. For example, conversations from May 15 to May 18. Just give a specific date, this gadget will download the chat history for you.

After installing the utility, log in to Facebook and open the chat you want to download. Click on the widget icon, you will see a calendar display, use it to select the time of the chat you want to download. Then click Apply > Start and the download process will begin. After downloading, you will be taken to a new tab with all the chats. Users can choose the format to save files, download messages in the correct order on Facebook.

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Facebook Chat Downloader

There is also a web application called Facebook Chat Downloader, which also has a conversation feature. Just log in to your account, you will see conversations with your friend's name, the number of messages sent to that person.

When you see the message you want to download, you will see the last message in that chat. Below are the options for downloading in JSON, TXT and CSV format.

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Now you know some ways to download and save important conversations on Facebook. All of these are very familiar to everyone.

Good luck!