Brightwheel Memories & Reports Exporter Chrome Extension

A Chrome Extension (Manifest V3) that allows parents and guardians to bulk export all of their children's memories, high-resolution photos, videos, daily care reports (meals, naps, potty), learning milestones, and activity manifests from Brightwheel into an organized offline ZIP archive.

✨ Features

Full Data Manifest: Exports complete student records, activities, and teacher notes in structured manifest.json format.
High-Resolution Media: Downloads original full-size photos and videos organized neatly by year and month (/YYYY/MM/photos/ & .../videos/).
Daily Care Logs: Captures meal entries, nap start/end times and durations, diaper/potty logs, and medication logs.
Learning Milestones: Backs up developmental milestones, curriculum tags, and teacher observations.
Attendance & Communication: Includes check-in/out records, health screenings, and message history.
Spreadsheet Ready: Generates an activities.csv spreadsheet compatible with Microsoft Excel, Numbers, and Google Sheets.
Offline Interactive Timeline Viewer: Bundles a standalone index.html inside the exported ZIP so you can browse your child's photos, search captions, and filter events locally on your computer with no internet required.
Safe & Private: Runs 100% locally in your browser. Seamlessly uses your active Brightwheel logged-in session cookies without asking for passwords or transmitting your family's data to third parties.
Smart Rate-Limiting: Includes automatic exponential backoff (handling HTTP 429 throttling) and configurable pacing delays.

🚀 Installation (Load Unpacked in Chrome)

Open Google Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions/.
Turn ON the Developer mode toggle in the top-right corner.
Click the Load unpacked button in the top-left corner.

Select this directory:

/Users/haopengzhan/Documents/MyGit/brightwheel-exporter-chrome-extension

The Brightwheel Memories & Reports Exporter icon will now appear in your Chrome toolbar!

📖 How to Use

Log into your Brightwheel account in Chrome at https://schools.mybrightwheel.com.
Navigate to your child's feed page (e.g. https://schools.mybrightwheel.com/students/edda433b-2a24-4da7-bbd5-9f131b4b2565/feed).
Click the Brightwheel Exporter icon in your browser toolbar (or click the floating "Export Brightwheel Data" button on the bottom right of the page).
Click Open Exporter Dashboard.
In the Dashboard:
- Select your child (or enter a custom student UUID).
- Choose your date range (All Time, This Year, or Custom).
- Select the content categories and export formats you want.
- Click Start Complete Export.
The extension will automatically harvest activities, download media with live progress tracking, and generate your downloadable ZIP archive!

📁 Exported Archive Structure

Inside the downloaded .zip file, you will find:

[ChildName]_[YYYY-MM-DD]/
├── index.html                   # Offline interactive timeline viewer
├── manifest.json                # Complete raw structured data
├── activities.csv               # Spreadsheet for Excel / Google Sheets
├── photos/
│   ├── 2026-08/
│   │   ├── 2026-08-20_abc123.jpg
│   │   └── ...
│   └── 2026-07/
└── videos/
    └── 2026-08/
        └── 2026-08-15_xyz789.mp4

🔒 Privacy & Security

Zero Data Collection: This extension does not send any personal data, photos, credentials, or cookies to external servers. All requests happen strictly between your browser and Brightwheel/AWS S3.
Local Packaging: The ZIP compression and HTML viewer creation happen entirely in your local browser memory using client-side JSZip.

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