Developer Creates Tool to Convert Claude Code Sessions Into Detailed HTML Pages
Summary
Developer Simon Willison launches claude-code-transcripts, a Python tool that transforms Claude Code programming sessions into enhanced HTML pages, solving the challenge of preserving crucial coding conversations and development decisions that occur outside traditional tracking systems.
Key Points
- Simon Willison releases claude-code-transcripts, a Python CLI tool that converts Claude Code sessions into detailed HTML pages with better interfaces than Claude Code itself provides
- The tool addresses the problem of preserving valuable coding conversations and decision-making context that now happens in Claude Code instead of traditional issue tracking systems
- The entire tool was built using Claude itself, with dependencies including click, Jinja2, httpx, and questionary, while reverse-engineering Claude Code's web API was done using OpenAI Codex