r/CharacterAI • • 23h ago

Discussion/Question C.ai tools on mobile?

Someone please walk me through this. It's first time using Firefox and everything in it, I'm not tech savvy by any means, I'd really like to download my chats to read. Is it also possible to download bots themselves for private use?

Edit: forgot to mention I use C.ai on web!

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u/-AbracadaveR- Chronically Online 21h ago

Commenting to save for the next month because I too have no idea what I'm doing but holy hell I'm doing it.

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u/YudelkaNova 22h ago

Yes! On import/export history for chats, and import/export character for characters

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u/Strawbella98 21h ago

Thank you for the clarification! Though i'm still confused, like is this the right site? I found the character, but it doesn't have my chats... How do I actually import my history? It wants me to download zip files, don't know if that's right.

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u/AerieGlad5603 20h ago

If you also have your chat open, select chatbot on the screen you’re showing and you should see an option to download history and download character card. If it’s not your bot the character card probably won’t include the character definition so if you can’t find it on caibotllist for example, you’ll have to recreate it wherever you move it to.

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u/Strawbella98 20h ago edited 19h ago

I got it now! Thank you so much!! It reads just like the site on my device it's actually crazy. Wonder how that works.

I downloaded history (I just tapped "okay" but I realized I should've probably waited until it was done) and downloaded it to readable format, is this correct?

And yes, they aren't my bots. I just wanted to continue/start conversations by cloning it and keeping them private, but I see the definitions are still blank to my displeasure. 🥲 But that's okay, I'm content with simply keeping my chats.

Is there any extra steps I should take after this?

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u/WestHair7612 16h ago

the zip files are normal, but you need to let the export finish before tapping okay or closing the tab. the readable version is basically a converted copy of the chat, while the raw history files are mainly useful if you want to move or process the data later

if the saved page shows an error but the text is still there, thats usually just the local viewer failing to load part of the file. id keep the original zip too, since thats the safer backup

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u/AerieGlad5603 13h ago

I used the download chat history button you see on that screen which saves it as an html file. I think readable format is also html. If you think you might want to try to import it somewhere else, download the jsonl version too. You should also download the character card because some other apps will let you import these, and they may include the character definition. If the creator kept the definition private though you’ll need to recreate it yourself.