# Export & data portability

Transcripts leave dembrane as Markdown files and audio as MP3. Anyone who can read a
project's conversations can download them.

## What you can download

| What | Where | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| All transcripts of a project | "Manage", then "Export", then "Download all transcripts" | A zip file named after the project, with one Markdown file per conversation |
| One transcript | The conversation page, "Download transcript". You can give it a "Custom filename" | One Markdown file |
| One transcript or summary as text | The copy icon on the transcript, or "Copy summary" | Text on your clipboard |
| The audio of one conversation | "Download audio" on the conversation page or its row | One MP3 file of the whole conversation |
| The QR code | "Download QR code" on the project's "Overview" | A PNG file |
| The host guide | "Download event printouts" | Your browser's print dialog, where you can save as PDF |

Good to know:

- The zip leaves out conversations that have no transcript text.
- Each file in the zip is named with the date and time, the participant's name and the
  start of the conversation's ID, so the files sort by time.
- "Download audio" is not available for anonymised or text-only conversations.

## What does not exist

- No CSV or Excel export of conversations.
- No PDF download of a transcript.
- No button to download everything tied to your own account. For that, or to have personal
  data erased, ask dembrane.

Reports have their own ways of sharing. See [reports](./reports.md).

## Sending data to another system

- [Webhooks](./webhooks-and-integrations.md), "Automation" in the product, send a message
  to your own system when something happens in a project. The message for a summarised
  conversation carries the transcript and the summary.
- [MCP](./mcp-and-bring-your-own-llm.md) lets an assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT read
  the conversations and transcripts you can see.

Developers find the technical side on
[export and integrations](../users/developer-external/export-and-integrations.md).

## Related

- [Conversations and transcripts](./conversations-and-transcripts.md): where the download
  buttons are.
- [Reports](./reports.md): sharing and printing a report.
- [Webhooks and integrations](./webhooks-and-integrations.md) and
  [MCP](./mcp-and-bring-your-own-llm.md): data to other systems.
- [Data ownership and compliance](./data-ownership-and-compliance.md): who owns the data
  and where it is kept.