
For example, you can export a video from WhatsApp to use it in a report, share it with non-WhatsApp users, analyse it for veracity, or edit it into your own video. This information can be used outside of WhatsApp for research, journalistic purposes, fact-checking, mobilization, or in courts of law. Important evidence and information is being shared on WhatsApp, from videos of human rights abuses to images created to misinform.

Since WhatsApp is a closed platform, we have to use its own built-in tools to access, download, and export the content.Įxporting content is different from backing up your WhatsApp. This tutorial, put together by WITNESS, walks you through how to download and export your chat messages, videos, photos, and other media from WhatsApp along with basic metadata. That way, you can easily download multiple photos, files or videos at once with just one click on the WhatsApp web.The messaging platform WhatsApp has 1.5 billion users worldwide and is increasingly being used as a tool to organize, mobilize, as well as to share important human rights content. You will receive your files in a zip file downloaded to your PC. Save the zip file after clicking the download icon in the bottom right corner of the page when you are finishedĪfter clicking on the download icon, located at the bottom right of the page.Click the download icon after selecting all messages to download them all at once.


After selecting all the images / files / videos you want to download, click downloadĪ small download icon will appear in the bottom right corner of the page.Select the images / files you want to download. Start selecting images, videos or files to download them immediatelyįrom the options revealed, click on 'Select messages' and you will be able to select multiple messages, images, videos or files.

From these options, click on “Select messages”.
