Google-hangouts – How to get a transcript of the Google hangout chat

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I ran a meeting on Google Hangout, and we took notes on chat. We all accidentally forgot to copy the chat text before all leaving.

Can I somehow retrieve a transcript of the chat during the hangout?

Best Answer

A workaround is to:

  1. Load the whole history by scrolling up
  2. Open Firebug and copy whole HTML to clipboard

  3. Paste it in a text editor and add on the very first line

    `<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">`

  4. Replace the contents of <head> with

    <meta content="IE=Edge" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible">
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<style type="text/css">
.tH, .bI, .lZ {
  display: none;
}

div.Sn {
  float: right;
  clear: both;
  background-color: #80D4DF;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
  padding: 10px;
  -moz-border-radius: 15px;
  border-radius: 15px;

}

div.pj {
  float: left;
  clear: both;
  background-color: #FEC56B;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
  padding: 10px;
  -moz-border-radius: 15px;
  border-radius: 15px;

}

body {
  width: 50%;
}
</style>

  5. Remove any <script> tags form document

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