Start with the group you need

Open WhatsApp Web in Chrome and wait for your chats to sync. Open WAxtract, refresh the group list, and select a group you are entitled to export. Groups that have not synced into this session may not appear yet.

Choose your export settings

Choose CSV and decide whether to exclude admins. WAxtract removes duplicate phone numbers from the output. Your first export creates a sample containing up to 50 available contacts, without signup. The result identifies the file as a sample.

Read the result before importing

The result separates exported rows from excluded admins and unavailable phone numbers. An unavailable number is not an empty contact to fill in: it means the current session did not provide a resolvable phone number. A successful file does not prove that every group member was available.

Keep phone numbers as text

When importing a CSV into Excel or another spreadsheet, set the phone-number column to text. This helps preserve the international + prefix and prevents long numbers being reformatted. You can also choose WAxtract’s Excel format, which stores phone cells as text.