# read-claude-web-conversation

Reads or exports Claude.ai conversations from private and shared links. Use it to pass a web chat to an agent for analysis or keep a local copy.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 330 installs · ★ 1493
- Author: daymade
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills/tree/HEAD/daymade-claude-code/read-claude-web-conversation/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/read-claude-web-conversation

## What it does

The skill retrieves a Claude.ai conversation through the internal API, using Chrome where the user is signed in. It handles private `/chat/...` links and public `/share/...` links, along with conversation files. The transcript can be read, summarized, or exported.

To access a chat, it runs JavaScript in the open browser page and relies on that page’s session. Available routes include the claude-in-chrome extension, CDP, and AppleScript on macOS; CDP is probed each time. `curl` and `WebFetch` hit a Cloudflare 403, while a fresh, signed-out Chrome profile cannot access the conversation. The Claude.ai API is undocumented and may change, so a failed request can require rechecking its structure.

## Requirements
- Works with: Chrome

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill read-claude-web-conversation -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/read-claude-web-conversation/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/read-claude-web-conversation/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill read-claude-web-conversation -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/read-claude-web-conversation/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill read-claude-web-conversation -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/read-claude-web-conversation/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install daymade/claude-code-skills read-claude-web-conversation
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/read-claude-web-conversation/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill read-claude-web-conversation -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills --path daymade-claude-code/read-claude-web-conversation
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/read-claude-web-conversation/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill read-claude-web-conversation -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills/tree/HEAD/daymade-claude-code/read-claude-web-conversation/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- read a Claude.ai conversation from its link
- summarize a private or shared chat
- export a transcript with tool calls
- extract files from a web conversation

## Example prompts
- Read this Claude.ai conversation and summarize it: [link]
- Export the chat at this link with its tool calls: [link]
- Save this Claude.ai conversation and extract its files: [link]

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: read-claude-web-conversation
description: >-
  Reads or exports the COMPLETE transcript of a Claude.ai web conversation — private /chat/... and
  public /share/... links — via Claude.ai's internal API in the user's logged-in Chrome, plus its
  files. Use when the user pastes a claude.ai link and asks to read, summarize, export, archive, or
  extract it — "读这个对话", "导出网页版对话", "拉到本地". Local sessions: read-claude-code-history; exported files:
  claude-export-txt-better.
---

# Read Claude.ai Web Conversation

Pull a Claude.ai **web** conversation into a full, structured transcript — every
message and every tool call, not just what is currently on screen.

Verified against Claude.ai's web API as of July 2026. These are the same private
JSON endpoints the Claude.ai front-end calls; they are not a documented or
version-stable public API, so if a request 404s, re-derive the shape from the
Network tab (see [references/claude-web-api-extraction.md](references/claude-web-api-extraction.md)).

## This skill vs. its siblings

Pick by the *source you are holding*, not by the word "conversation":

| Source | Use |
|--------|-----|
| A live **`claude.ai/chat/…`** or **`claude.ai/share/…`** URL | **This skill** |
| Local Claude Code sessions (`~/.claude/projects/*.jsonl`) | `read-claude-code-history` |
| An already-exported `.txt` / `.json` conversation file | `claude-export-txt-better` |

## Why the obvious approaches fail (read this first)

Four traps, and **every one of them fails silently** — you get back something
that looks like a complete export, and you only notice the loss if you happen to
know how long the conversation really was. Assume you are being lied to by
default; the fidelity gate in Step 4 exists to make the lies audible.

1. **Login wall.** `curl` and `WebFetch` don't get an auth redirect — they get a
   Cloudflare challenge page (HTTP 403, `Just a moment...`). Nothing you do to
   the headers fixes this; the page is gated on a session that lives in the
   user's Chrome. **Never reach for curl here, not even to "just check".**
2. **Virtual scrolling.** With the conversation open, `get_page_text` and DOM
   scraping still only see the handful of messages currently rendered — often
   just the last one. A 40-message thread comes back as 1.
3. **Default rendering collapses the tool calls.** The API's default rendering
   turns every tool call into a "not supported on your current device"
   placeholder. On a research/agent conversation the tool blocks ARE the content:
   measured on a real one, the default rendering returned **9.4k chars against
   173k** with `render_all_tools=true` — 5%. Always request the full rendering.
4. **A /chat/-shaped renderer silently drops /share/ blocks.** A share payload
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