HaulOut
Haul out the thread.
Save the AI conversation you have open as Markdown or JSON, with speaker labels and available metadata. HaulOut runs in your browser and downloads the result. Nothing is uploaded.
Haul out the thread. Then detangle it.
Install (supported path)
- Install Tampermonkey.
- Open haulout.dev/haulout.user.js and accept the install, or paste
haulout.user.js into a new userscript.
- Reload the chat tab.
- Open the conversation.
- Click Haul out at the bottom right, or press Alt+Shift+E.
- Pick Markdown or JSON. The file lands in Downloads.
Claude often blocks javascript: bookmarklets. The userscript is the supported path. Violentmonkey, Greasemonkey, bookmarklet, and console paste live in fallback/ and are not presented as equally reliable.
Compatibility
Supported sites. HaulOut 1.1.4 has an adapter for ChatGPT (chatgpt.com, chat.openai.com), Claude (claude.ai), Gemini (gemini.google.com), Grok (grok.com), and Grok on X (x.com/i/grok).
Last checked working. Each date is the most recent successful haul on record, taken from the file's exported_at timestamp (UTC). There are no automated tests against the live sites.
| Site | Last checked working | Version |
|---|
| ChatGPT | 2026-09-21 | 1.1.4 |
| Grok (grok.com) | 2026-09-21 | 1.1.4 |
| Claude | 2026-09-09 | 1.1.3 |
| Gemini | 2026-09-09 | 1.1.3 |
| Grok on X | Not recently verified | |
Per-site notes: docs/COMPATIBILITY.md.
What you get
haulout-2026-09-02-chatgpt-kitchen-reno.md
- YAML front matter (
exported_at, platform, source, url, title, project, …)
- One heading per turn:
### You · turn 1 — 2026-08-30T14:11:02.000Z (timestamp left out when the site has none)
- JSON with the same fields and a
turns array
source: api when HaulOut read the site’s conversation endpointsource: dom when it had to read the rendered thread after scrolling
Sanitized samples: examples/kitchen-reno.md, examples/kitchen-reno.json. This is the open conversation, not a bulk account archive.
How you know it finished
The HaulOut panel shows {n} turns · API|DOM · MD|JSON. n is the turns collected, not proof that the provider stored exactly that many. An empty extract fails with an error. The scroll walk has a step cap.
Why it scrolls
Chat sites keep only part of a long thread on the page at a time. HaulOut scrolls to the top, waits for older turns to load, then walks down before it reads. ChatGPT, Claude, and grok.com are read from the conversation API first; the scroll pass is still a safety net. Gemini and Grok on X are read from the page.
Limits
- This is the open conversation, not a bulk account archive.
- Per-turn timestamps are often missing from the page. API hauls are the ones with real timestamps.
- Images and uploads are referenced, not zipped.
- Grok on X uses generated class names and will break first.
- Official full-account exports still exist and are better for everything you ever said.
Site
haulout.dev is a FilePress site in site/. Locally:
pnpm --dir site install
pnpm dev
pnpm dev claims port 5198 as haulout-site through LocalSlip and fails if LocalSlip is not installed. Without it, run pnpm --dir site dev.
Product spec: docs/SPEC.md. Compatibility record: docs/COMPATIBILITY.md.
License
MIT. Unofficial. Not affiliated with the chat sites.
See the rest of the Catalyst Forge shelf.
