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Freshdesk Ticket Exporter / Free Chrome Extension

Every ticket out, in one export

I built this for an audit and kept it for the next one. Freshdesk is fine for managing tickets and terrible for getting them out: no bulk export, no conversation download, no real report. So this pulls every ticket, every conversation, and the attachments, as JSON, CSV, or PDF. It is free on the Chrome Web Store. Install it.

Not a three-hour slog
Minutes
JSON, CSV, PDF
3 formats
On the Chrome Web Store
Free
02 / Why I Built It

An audit, a deadline, and no export button

I needed a client's full ticket history for an audit: hundreds of tickets, well over a thousand conversations, due the next day. Freshdesk has no bulk export, so the only path it offered was clicking into each ticket, copying content, and questioning my choices. That is not a workflow.

So I built the export button Freshdesk does not have. Fifteen minutes later I had the full JSON, a CSV for the spreadsheet people, and a PDF for the auditors. I have reached for it on every audit since.

03 / What It Does

Three formats, full data

01

JSON export

Structured, hierarchical data ready for your scripts, integrations, and BI tools.

02

CSV export

One row per message, opens in Excel, and feeds your dashboards and analytics.

03

PDF reports

Cover pages, conversation bubbles, and inline images. The format you hand to an auditor.

04

No cloud upload

Everything runs in your browser. Your ticket data never leaves your machine.

04 / How It Works

Five steps, no coding

01

Connect

Enter your Freshdesk subdomain and API key.

02

Select company

Pick the company you want to export.

03

Filter

Status and date range, if you want to narrow it. Optional.

04

Choose format

JSON, CSV, or PDF.

05

Export

Click, wait, done.

05 / When I Reach For This

The moments it earns its place

An audit needs a full ticket history

I built this for exactly this: pulling a client's entire ticket history, conversations and all, into a format an auditor can read, on a deadline.

A QBR needs the support story in one place

Customer success teams pull a client's ticket history for a review. One professional PDF shows the whole support journey.

A GDPR portability request comes in

Data portability and audit trails with timestamps need a clean bulk extract, not a day of copy-paste.

06 / Under The Hood

For the people who care how it is built

  • Chrome Manifest v3, the current extension architecture
  • Freshdesk REST API v2, the official integration
  • jsPDF for professional PDF generation with images
  • SSRF protection, locked to *.freshdesk.com only
  • XSS hardened, DOM methods, no innerHTML injection
  • CSV injection protection, OWASP-compliant output
What gets exported
  • All tickets for the selected company
  • Full conversation history (every reply and note)
  • Attachment filenames and metadata
  • Requester information
  • Ticket status, priority, and timestamps
  • Inline images embedded in the PDF
  • Archived ticket conversations
  • Professional PDF with a cover page
  • Formatted conversation bubbles
  • Complete audit trail

Complete ticket data ready for compliance, analysis, or archival.

/ Your Data Stays Yours

No credential storage

Enter your API key fresh each session. Close the popup and it is gone.

100% local processing

Everything runs in your browser. Your ticket data never leaves your machine.

No cloud uploads

Direct browser-to-Freshdesk connection. No middleman servers, no third-party processing.

Inspect it yourself

The code is not obfuscated. Open Chrome's extension viewer and read exactly what runs.

Read the full privacy policy
07 / The Open Door

Try it on one company

It is free. Install it, export one company, and see the output for yourself. The next audit does not have to take all day.