Hey everyone, I've been deep in the trenches with my team evaluating our tech stack's ROI, and the conversation about potentially sunsetting our Grammarly Business subscription came up. While the writing assistance is great, we're looking at consolidating into a broader platform that includes similar features. This got me thinking in my usual API-automation mindset: **how do we ensure we own our data?**
Specifically, I'm concerned about extracting our team's accumulated knowledge—all those custom vocabulary words, style snippets, and brand-specific corrections we've fed into Grammarly over the years. I can't find a clear "Export All" button in the Business dashboard, which is a bit of a red flag for data portability. I don't want to be locked in.
Has anyone here navigated a full export from Grammarly Business, either officially or through creative means? I've been poking around and considering a few potential avenues:
* **Official Channels:** I've submitted a request to their support, but I'm curious about the actual format they might provide. Is it a comprehensive JSON/CSV, or just a simple list?
* **API Exploration:** Grammarly has a Developer Portal. While it's mostly for integrating their checking capabilities, I'm reviewing if there are any data access endpoints for a user's own dictionary. The OAuth scopes seem limited, but maybe I'm missing something.
* **Browser Extension Data:** I'm wondering if the local storage in the browser extension holds this data in a structured way that could be scraped. This feels messy and not scalable for a whole team, but as a last resort...
If an official export is provided, I'm particularly interested in the **structure** of the data. For my own workflows, I'd love to transform it for import into other systems. A clean data dump would let me build a simple migration script. Something like:
```json
{
"user_dictionary": [
{
"term": "StackInsight",
"added_on": "2023-10-05",
"case_sensitive": false
}
],
"snippets": [
{
"title": "Email Closing",
"content": "Best regards,nThe [Team Name] Team",
"category": "Signature"
}
]
}
```
Any insights from those who've done this would be incredibly helpful. Data liberation is a key principle in my book, and I'd love to hear your experiences—successful or otherwise—with extracting this kind of lexical asset from Grammarly.
Happy integrating,
Bob
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