Updated Sep 28, 2026
Amazon's export is a lot more than receipts. It covers Alexa voice history, Kindle highlights going back years, everything Prime Video knows you watched, and the list of advertising segments Amazon has filed you under. Getting it out is deliberately awkward, though, and the full "download everything" option is the one most likely to go wrong. Pick the categories you actually want instead.
Top-level structure of the export. Each entry is a file or directory with its format badge and what it contains.
Your Orders/Order History.csvCSVBrowsing History/CSVProfile/JSONDigital.PrimeVideo.ViewingHistoryJSONDigital.PrimeVideo.WatchlistHistoryJSONKindle.ReadingInsightsJSONKindle.Annotations.jsonJSONAdvertising.AmazonAudiences.csvCSVAdvertising.3PAudiences.csvCSVAlexa.Interactions/JSONAmazon.CustomerReviews.csvCSVAmazon's data request flow was documented as a dark pattern before it was ever finished being built. Asking for everything gives you the largest archive, the longest wait and the most chances for something to time out or arrive as a link you cannot open. The Intercept wrote about this in 2022 and the shape of the problem has not really changed.
Pick the categories you want. The order history is labelled "Your Orders" and you can request that on its own in a couple of days. If you want Alexa and Kindle as well, select those specifically. You are not obliged to take the lot.
The export gives you what Alexa heard as text. The audio is stored separately, in a way that has drawn criticism for years, and you can hear and delete it at amazon.com/alexaprivacy or in the Alexa app under Settings, then Alexa Privacy, then Review Voice History.
Worth doing even if you barely use an Echo. Recordings accumulate on devices you use occasionally, and nobody is going to clear them out for you.
Every highlight and note you have made across your whole Kindle library, going back to books you finished years ago. It is genuinely the most useful thing in the archive and the least expected.
Each highlight carries the book, author, the text, your note, and where it falls in the book. Readwise, Obsidian and Notion will all take it, as will a spreadsheet. If you would rather browse, read.amazon.com/notebook is more readable than the raw JSON. Highlights from Kindle Unlimited books can disappear if the subscription has lapsed, which is a good reason to export more than once.
This is the file that shows you the segments Amazon has filed you under, both internally derived and bought in from third parties. It is the same machinery that decides which ads you see on Amazon and across the wider web.
You can opt out of interest-based targeting at amazon.com/adprefs. That stops it being used, it does not delete it, and it does not apply everywhere. The export is how you see what was there in the first place.
If you want the short checklist instead of the full guide, use the service page.
No. Ask for the categories you want. The full request is slower and more likely to break, and you end up with an archive you will not open anyway. "Your Orders" on its own is a few days.
Usually one to three days, and Amazon states up to 30 days for larger requests. The download link expires, so take it when it arrives.
No. It makes a copy and leaves your account alone.
To your first order. The CSV is the full purchase history for the account, not a recent window.
Mostly CSV and JSON in a ZIP. CSVs open directly in a spreadsheet, JSON needs a viewer or an import.
Not from this export. Audio lives at amazon.com/alexaprivacy or in the Alexa app under Alexa Privacy. You can listen to and delete recordings there. The export gives you transcripts only.
If you select the Kindle categories. You get reading insights and, more usefully, every highlight and note you have ever made.
No. Ring data is a separate request and video is not in the Amazon archive at all.
The audience segments and interest categories Amazon has assigned you, including third-party segments used for targeting elsewhere on the web.
Yes, under Browsing History in your account. That is a different action from the export and does not affect the data already downloaded.
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