How to extract text from your COLLOQUYTRANSCRIPT file
Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your COLLOQUYTRANSCRIPT file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert COLLOQUYTRANSCRIPT to another file type
To convert COLLOQUYTRANSCRIPT chat logs to another format, you need Colloquy or other Text software.
Convert a file to COLLOQUYTRANSCRIPT
To convert other file formats to the "Chat Transcript File" file type, you need software like Colloquy or a similar tool.
About COLLOQUYTRANSCRIPT files
The .colloquytranscript file is a proprietary chat log generated by the Colloquy IRC client for macOS and iOS. It primarily stores user conversations, timestamps, and channel events from Internet Relay Chat (IRC) sessions. Because this is a specialized application format tied to Apple's ecosystem, you cannot easily open or read .colloquytranscript files on Windows, Linux, or non-Apple mobile devices without the original Colloquy software. Users face severe limitations when trying to share these logs for legal, historical, or archival purposes. Standard text editors might display raw XML markup alongside the unformatted data, making the transcript frustrating to read. Furthermore, standard online converters usually fail to process it because it is a closed, proprietary package rather than a standard text document. To make these chat logs universally accessible, you need to convert them to standard formats like TXT, PDF, or HTML. Note that converting to plain text will strip away custom UI themes or message colors applied by the client. This file format is difficult to open or convert because only the original software contains the WebKit-based rendering engine to properly read or export the formatted data. Despite these restrictions, convert.guru is your pragmatic solution. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. If our analysis detects the supported underlying embedded XML text, viewing or conversion may still be possible without installing outdated software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your COLLOQUYTRANSCRIPT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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FAQ
If you want to convert COLLOQUYTRANSCRIPT file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Colloquy or similar software from the "IRC Chat Log Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to COLLOQUYTRANSCRIPT, try Colloquy or another comparable tool in the "IRC Chat Log Storage" category.
The COLLOQUYTRANSCRIPT Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our COLLOQUYTRANSCRIPT converter.