Search ChatGPT Chats By Date

• 2 minutes

In ChatGPT, is there a way I can search for chats by specific dates?

Unfortunately, you can’t currently search by calendar date directly in ChatGPT, but you can export your data and search that instead.

Step 1: Export Your Data

Follow ChatGPT’s docs on how to export your data:

  1. Go to Settings → Data Controls → Export Data.
  2. You’ll get a ZIP with JSON and an HTML file (chat.html).

Step 2: Edit chat.html

Edit chat.html and update the window.onload function:

  1. Sort jsonData by create_time.
  2. Render create_time next to conversation heading.
       // on load, add messages to the root div
       window.onload = function() {
           var root = document.getElementById("root");
+          // 1. Sort conversations by `create_time`.
+          jsonData.sort((a, b) => b.create_time - a.create_time);
           for (var i = 0; i < jsonData.length; i++) {
               var conversation = jsonData[i];
               var messages = getConversationMessages(conversation);
               var div = document.createElement("div");
               div.className = "conversation";
+              // 2. Render `create_time` next to conversation heading.
-              div.innerHTML = "<h4>" + conversation.title + "</h4>";
+              div.innerHTML = `
+                <span style="display: inline-block; background: yellow; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0.5em; font-weight: bold;">
+                  ${(new Date(conversation.create_time * 1000)).toLocaleString()}
+                </span>
+                <h4>${conversation.title}</h4>
+              `;
               for (var j = 0; j < messages.length; j++) {
                   var message = document.createElement("pre");
                   message.className = "message";

Bonus: If you want to make it easier to scan and scroll through your chat history, you can add some quick styles to .conversation too:

       .conversation {
         border: 1px solid black;
         padding: 20px;
         background-color: #f3f3f3;
+        /* Bonus: Make conversations easier to scan and scroll through. */
+        max-width: 960px;
+        max-height: 300px;
+        margin-inline: auto;
+        overflow: auto;
       }

Step 3: Open chat.html

Now you should have a date-searchable chat history.