How to download Mistral (Le Chat) conversations
Mistral is the dominant non-US chat product in the EU. TotalRecalls reads from your browser session and writes everything to local files you control.
What "download" usually means
People searching for this want one of three outcomes:
- Backup — don't lose threads if the account changes
- Multilingual archive — French, German, Spanish threads stay UTF-8 readable
- Searchable library — find an old answer without scrolling forever
Option A — Manual copy/paste from chat.mistral.ai
Mistral does not provide a built-in data download for chat history. The only manual path is to open each conversation, select the text, and paste it into a local file.
- Pros: no tooling, no install
- Cons: loses formatting, doesn't scale past a few threads, easy to lose the order of long threads
Option B — Local library with TotalRecalls (Windows)
TotalRecalls runs on your PC, connects to your Mistral Le Chat session locally, and writes conversations into folders as Markdown + JSON.
- Buy / install TotalRecalls for Windows
- Choose Mistral as the provider
- Sign in through the local login window at chat.mistral.ai
- Download — files land under
Library/mistral/
Why Mistral specifically
Most consumer chat products are US-based. Mistral is the most common alternative for EU users who want their data to stay in European jurisdictions. Backing up locally complements that — even if your Mistral account is EU-resident, a local copy means you're not depending on Mistral's uptime, retention policy, or pricing changes to keep your history.
TotalRecalls preserves UTF-8 throughout, so French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese threads stay readable in any editor.
Which should you use?
Use manual copy/paste for one or two threads you need right now. Use TotalRecalls when you want a complete, searchable archive — especially if you also use ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, or Grok and want one archive location for all of them.
Tips for a clean Mistral archive
- Run the download while you still have an active session — Mistral sessions expire on inactivity
- Keep the folder inside a backup drive or cloud backup you control
- Prefer Markdown for reading; keep JSON if you might process later
- Mistral's free tier and Le Chat Pro both share the same web UI, so both download cleanly through the same path
About Mistral's Pro tier
Mistral's Le Chat Pro tier does not expose conversation history through the public API. TotalRecalls reads from your browser session, which works for the free tier and any future tier that shares the same web UI.