Feature request: export chat logs

[sunnyolives]

A very useful feature. I find it strange it isn't already implemented, unless I am bad at searching.

Alternatives

• specify time range
• possibly, specify file format or formatting

What do you think?

[ara4n]

yup, i find myself wanting this repeatedly too. #2129 is close to it, but would be nice to just be able to say "download room as log".

[Half-Shot]

I was once toying with the idea of selecting some of the chat, and hitting some kind of key combo/ menu option to copy a IRC style log into the clipboard?

[ara4n]

This would also be cool!

[Nadrieril]

Any plans to do this ?

[ara4n]

as a p2 feature req this is basically stuck behind everything tagged as p1, which is around 200 issues right now. but given this is FOSS anyone is welcome to contribute it!

[clopez]

I find the search feature of matrix/riot pretty inefficient for an advanced user like me that is used to do greps (even using regexs) over simple text files.

So, being unable to extract simple plain text logs from my matrix conversations (both private or in rooms) is a serious regression for me, when compared with my previous experience with Jabber or IRC clients.

[ara4n]

https://gitlab.com/argit/matrix-recorder is a good workaround for this for now (and even does e2e if you desire, albeit storing it unencrypted). We could also build something like this into riot itself in future.

[MaskyS]

+1 for this feature request