Importing and Exporting Chats

Sometimes, when you need to continue a Chat, its necessary to export your chat into some form of a file, or localStorage, and then later import it again. bard-ai has the ability to do this built in.

Example

Let's start by creating a new chat.

import Bard from "bard-ai";
 
let myBard = new Bard(COOKIE);
 
let myChat = myBard.createChat();

Now, let's ask a question.

console.log(await myChat.ask("What is 1+1?"));

We then call the export function.

myChat.export();

You should get an object similar to this:

{
    "conversationID": string,
    "responseID": string,
    "choiceID": string,
    "_reqID": string
}

And now import our conversation:

import Bard from "bard-ai";
 
let myBard = new Bard(COOKIE);
 
let myChatContinued = myBard.createChat({
  conversationID: string,
  responseID: string,
  choiceID: string,
  _reqID: string,
});

Finally, we ask Bard a continuation of the original question ("What is 1+1?"):

console.log(await myChatContinued.ask("Add 1 to that"));

Bard should be able to catch on, and say 3!

Usage

Chat.export()

Takes no parameters, and returns an object in this format:

{
    "conversationID": string,
    "responseID": string,
    "choiceID": string,
    "_reqID": string
}

These IDs keep track of the entire conversation, which message you are on, and more.

bard-ai does not handle the actual saving of the conversation, so you'll have to supply your own file control and/or localStorage control. This is because of 2 things, that are somewhat intertwined:

• The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) (opens in a new tab), that says each part of your code should do one thing.
• Keeps the library size down, to make it lighter and faster to download.

createChat(IDs)

createChat() takes in one argument, the ID object you obtained from the export above. The chat will simply be initialized with the IDs (and remember previous messages), and can then be used as normal.

Learn more about createChat here.