Summarchive for Zoom

Chrome extension

Export Zoom AI Companion summaries

Download every AI meeting summary you hosted. Markdown, plain text, JSON, and CSV, packed into one ZIP and saved on your computer.

See an export

The Chrome Web Store listing is not public yet, so there is no install button on this page. The trial exports the 5 most recent summaries on each run. A $19 license, paid inside the extension, lifts that cap. Zoom still calls these Meeting Summaries. They used to be called AI Companion.

Zoom keeps them briefly, and will not hand over the archive.

  1. 01

    No bulk download

    Zoom’s help for a meeting summary covers review, edit, change the template, and open it in a Zoom Doc. A folder of every summary is not one of those actions. York University’s workaround (opens in a new tab) is to open each summary, send it to Zoom Docs, and export a Word or PDF file, one meeting at a time.

  2. 02

    A clock your admin sets

    Retention is an account setting. At the University of Washington (opens in a new tab), summaries stay available for 30 days, move to Trash, and are permanently deleted 30 days later. Their IT FAQ says Zoom does not offer a way to download them. York keeps them for 90 days by default.

  3. 03

    The week you notice

    A cancelled Zoom plan, a job change, or a quarter of customer calls about to age out. That is when the archive has to happen in one pass, while the summaries are still listed.

Zoom deletes your meeting summaries. Export all of them in one pass, before it does.

One export, from Zoom to a ZIP

Summarchive talks only to the official Zoom API, with Zoom’s own sign-in. There is no client secret and no server of ours in the middle. Calls go to api.zoom.us. The ZIP is written on your machine.

01

Connect Zoom

Approve three read scopes: your profile, the summary list, and each summary you hosted.

02

Pick a range and formats

The default range is the last 12 months. Markdown and the CSV index start out selected.

03

Read, with a resume

Fetched summaries sit in a local cache, so a cancelled run continues instead of starting over.

04

Download the ZIP

One file per meeting, named by date and topic, plus index.csv when you asked for it.

Interface sketch of the extension. Counts depend on your account. An edited summary in Zoom can be preferred over the original.

What you need

  • Chrome, and a paid Zoom plan: Pro, Business, Education, or Enterprise. On a Basic account the API answers that summaries are only available for a paid account.
  • Meeting Summary turned on under Zoom’s AI Companion settings. The summaries are the ones in the Meeting Summaries list, the emails that arrive as “Meeting summary for …”.
  • Meetings you hosted. User-level access returns those, and only those.
  • Zoom’s sign-in. If Settings says setup is required, create a free Zoom app in your own account first. It takes about five minutes and needs no review. The steps are here.

What it cannot do

  • My Notes (mynotes.zoom.us). That product has no public API.
  • Transcripts and cloud recordings.
  • Summaries another host shared with you.
  • End-to-end encrypted meetings. They never have a summary.
  • Recover a summary Zoom has already deleted.

Try five. Pay once if you want the rest.

The Chrome Web Store listing is not public yet. When it is, install from there. The trial needs no account with us. Opening the extension asks ExtensionPay whether a license is paid; the card goes to Stripe only if you buy. A cancelled export continues from summaries already saved in the browser, on the trial and after you pay.

Trial

$0

On every export, until you pay.

  • The 5 most recent summaries in the date range
  • Markdown, plain text, JSON, and CSV
  • The same local ZIP, Zoom sign-in, and resume cache

Install link appears when the Chrome listing is public.

Lifetime

$19 once

Every summary Zoom still has in the range you pick.

  • The five-summary cap comes off
  • Same resume cache as the trial
  • The extension stores a paid / not-paid status, not your card

Buy inside the extension after the Chrome listing is public.

Questions people actually search

How do I download all Zoom meeting summaries?

Install Summarchive, connect the Zoom account that hosted the meetings, and start an export. The default range is the last 12 months. You get one ZIP named zoom-summaries-YYYY-MM-DD.zip, with a file per meeting. Zoom’s API returns summaries for meetings you hosted, on a Pro, Business, Education, or Enterprise plan with Meeting Summary enabled.

Can I export a Zoom meeting summary to Markdown, Obsidian, or Notion?

Each Markdown file opens with YAML front matter — title, start and end, meeting ID, host, attendees, keywords, and a link to the Zoom Doc — then the overview, the sections, and next steps as checkboxes. That file drops into an Obsidian vault as a note. For Notion, import the Markdown or the CSV index. You bring the files across yourself. The sample at the top of this page is the shape of that note.

Are Zoom AI Companion summaries deleted after 30 days?

Your admin sets the window. At the University of Washington (opens in a new tab), meeting summaries stay available for 30 days, then move to Trash, and are permanently deleted after 30 days in Trash. That FAQ says Zoom does not offer a way to download meeting summaries. At York University (opens in a new tab) they are kept for 90 days by default, and the documented export is one summary at a time through Zoom Docs. Export while the summary is still listed. After Zoom deletes it, this extension cannot get it back.

Can I bulk-export Zoom summaries before cancelling?

Yes. Connect the account, export the full date range, and keep the ZIP before the account closes or the retention window lapses. The license is $19 once, which suits a single archive on the way out of Zoom.

Can I export Zoom summaries to CSV?

Yes. CSV is on by default, together with Markdown. The ZIP includes index.csv with one row per meeting: start, end, topic, title, host, meeting ID, attendees, overview, next steps, keywords, the Zoom Doc link, and the path of the matching file. Plain text and JSON are optional checkboxes on the same export.

Where do the summaries go?

From api.zoom.us into your browser, then into a ZIP saved in the folder you choose. A cache in the browser profile lets an interrupted export resume, on the trial and after you pay. Settings can delete it, and uninstalling the extension removes it. Opening the extension asks ExtensionPay whether the license is paid. That check does not include summary text. If you buy or restore a license, ExtensionPay and Stripe receive the payment details, and the extension receives a paid / not-paid status. Summary text stays on your machine. The extension and this website include no analytics.

What can Summarchive not export?

My Notes, transcripts, and cloud recordings. Summaries from meetings someone else hosted and shared with you. End-to-end encrypted meetings, which have no summary. Anything Zoom has already deleted. Basic (free) Zoom accounts, which the summaries API refuses.

Is Summarchive part of Zoom?

No. Summarchive is an independent extension. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Zoom is a trademark of Zoom Video Communications, Inc.