Exporting Data

This method allows you to request an export of one or many channels and download all messages and metadata. Channel exports are created asynchronously, you can use the Task ID returned by the APIs to keep track of the status and to download the final result when it is ready.

The data created by the export is following the same format as the regular APIs and is JSON encoded. By default the entire history is included in the export (excluding truncated messages), but you may optionally request the export to include only the messages in a specific interval using the messages_since and messages_until parameters.

Following code example presents basic usecase of exporting channels. By default truncated messages or soft deleted channels are excluded from export. But you can include them by setting the options include_truncated_messages and include_soft_deleted_channels as true.

you can use v2 version of the channel export by adding version:"v2" in the request body which will use the new export for channels where each entity of the export would be exported as line separated json.

You can check the status of an export request using the task ID returned when the task was created. The result of the task contains the URL to the JSON file.

Timestamps will be returned in this format: "2021-02-17T08:17:49.745857Z" and are in UTC.

To export user data, Stream Chat exposes an exportUser method. This method can only be called server-side due to security concerns, so please keep this in mind when attempting to make the call.

Below is an example of how to execute the call to export user data:

The export will return all data about the user, including:

• User ID

• Messages

• Reactions

• Custom Data