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Contacts + attachments, one download

Pick any saved contact view. Get every contact as a CSV plus every file attached to them, zipped with one folder per contact. Freshsales exports records; it never exports the attachments. This button does. Preview free, no account.

⚷ your API key is used in-memory for this run · not stored or logged
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Connect your account

Both classic Freshsales and Freshworks CRM domains work. Use a key from a user who can SEE the view; the API mirrors that user's record visibility.

Find it in Freshsales under Profile picture → Settings → API Settings.

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Pick a contact view

Views are your saved filters (My Contacts, Recently Modified, and any custom view you saved).

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    Export

    Runs in this tab, paced to your account's API rate limit. Archives download in parts as they fill; the final part carries contacts.csv. Progress is saved locally, so you can pause, or even close the tab, and resume later.

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    Your contacts and files go from Freshsales, through this page, to your downloads folder, nowhere else. Not affiliated with Freshworks.

    What this actually does

    Freshsales exports your records but never the files attached to them. This downloads every contact in any saved view PLUS every attachment, zipped with one folder per contact and a CSV index. Rate-limit aware, pause and resume, survives a closed tab.

    It runs on your own Freshsales data, in your browser session, against Freshsales's official API. There is no middle layer holding your records and there is no migration to anywhere. You run it, you get the result, you carry on with your day.

    Where the file goes next

    It is a CSV, which is the point. Freshsales will happily show you the numbers on a screen you cannot do anything with. This gives you the file, and the file goes wherever you need it.

    The column names stay the same run to run, so if you build a Power BI report or a Sheets formula on top of it, re-running next month will not break what you built.

    What it will not do

    It will not touch anything you did not ask it to. It does not store your API key, it does not keep a copy of your data, and where an action cannot be reversed you get told that before you press the button, not after.

    Questions people actually ask

    Does this store my Freshsales API key?

    No. The key is held in memory for the length of the run and is gone when the tab closes. It is never written to our database and never appears in a log. You can revoke it in Freshsales the moment you are done and nothing here breaks.

    What can I do with the file afterwards?

    It is a plain CSV, so anything that reads a CSV will read it. Open it in Excel or Google Sheets, pull it into Power BI or Looker Studio, or load it into a warehouse table. The headers are clean and they do not change between runs, so a scheduled refresh will not break on you.

    How big a job can it handle?

    It streams the results as they arrive rather than holding everything in memory, and it respects Freshsales's rate limits instead of hammering the API. Large accounts take longer, but they finish.

    Why is this not just a feature in Freshsales?

    That is the whole question, and we do not have a good answer either. It is a gap that has been open for years, it is on the forums, and it never gets shipped. So we shipped it.

    Related: export, attachments, files, documents, contacts, list view, zip, download, backup.

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