What Is ShareGPT and Can You Still Use It?

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ShareGPT was a Chrome extension that let you share a ChatGPT conversation with one click. It is now deprecated: the site itself states that ShareGPT is no longer supported and directs users to OpenAI's built-in sharing instead. If you came across ShareGPT and want to know whether to install it, the short answer is no — use ChatGPT's own share feature. The rest of this page explains what ShareGPT did, why it mattered, and what to do now.

What ShareGPT did

ShareGPT solved a small but real problem: ChatGPT conversations lived inside your account, and there was no simple way to send one to someone else.

The extension added a sharing action to the ChatGPT interface. Clicking it produced a public link to the conversation, which you could post anywhere — a forum, a chat, a document. The site reports that users shared over 438,000 conversations through it, which gives a sense of how common the need was.

In practice, a typical use looked like this:

  • You have a long ChatGPT thread where you debugged a script or worked through an argument.
  • You want a colleague to see the whole exchange, not a screenshot or a copy-paste.
  • You click the ShareGPT action, get a link, and send it.

The value was in the link, not the extension itself. Screenshots lose the text, and copy-paste loses the formatting and the back-and-forth structure.

Why it stopped working

The page's own notice is unambiguous: ShareGPT is deprecated, and the recommended replacement is OpenAI's built-in sharing. The message also thanks the people who used it to share those 438,000+ conversations, which reads as a shutdown notice rather than a temporary outage.

The underlying reason is straightforward. ShareGPT existed because ChatGPT lacked native sharing. Once OpenAI added sharing as a built-in feature, a third-party extension doing the same job had little reason to continue — and a third-party tool that depends on another company's interface is fragile by design. When that interface changes, the extension breaks.

What to use instead

Use the sharing feature inside ChatGPT itself. The general flow:

  1. Open the conversation you want to share.
  2. Look for the share control in the conversation's interface.
  3. Generate the link and copy it.
  4. Send the link to whoever needs it.

Expected result: a public URL that opens the conversation for anyone with the link.

Common snags to expect:

  • Shared links are typically public to anyone who has them, so check the conversation for anything you would not want exposed — names, keys, internal details.
  • You may be able to revoke or delete a shared link later; check the current options in your ChatGPT account rather than assuming.
  • The exact menu location and wording change as ChatGPT is updated, so follow what you see in your own interface rather than a fixed set of clicks.

Should you still install ShareGPT?

No. The site says it is deprecated and points elsewhere. Installing a deprecated extension that hooks into ChatGPT means you are relying on code that is no longer maintained against an interface that keeps changing — the failure mode is silent breakage, and you gain nothing over the built-in option.

The only reason to care about ShareGPT now is historical or archival: if you are looking for a conversation that was shared through it, or you are researching how ChatGPT sharing evolved. For actually sharing a conversation today, the built-in feature is the supported path.