diff --git a/services/track-changes/app.js b/services/track-changes/app.js
index b9ca5120ce..9dd8f9440b 100644
--- a/services/track-changes/app.js
+++ b/services/track-changes/app.js
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ app.get('/project/:project_id/doc/:doc_id/diff', HttpController.getDiff)
 app.get('/project/:project_id/doc/:doc_id/check', HttpController.checkDoc)
 
 app.get('/project/:project_id/updates', HttpController.getUpdates)
+app.get('/project/:project_id/export', HttpController.exportProject)
 
 app.post('/project/:project_id/flush', HttpController.flushProject)
 
diff --git a/services/track-changes/app/js/HttpController.js b/services/track-changes/app/js/HttpController.js
index c167bae1c9..c5db48210a 100644
--- a/services/track-changes/app/js/HttpController.js
+++ b/services/track-changes/app/js/HttpController.js
@@ -200,6 +200,69 @@ module.exports = HttpController = {
     )
   },
 
+  exportProject(req, res, next) {
+    // The project history can be huge:
+    //  - updates can weight MBs for insert/delete of full doc
+    //  - multiple updates form a pack
+    // Flush updates per pack onto the wire.
+    const { project_id } = req.params
+    logger.log({ project_id }, 'exporting project history')
+    UpdatesManager.exportProject(project_id, function (
+      err,
+      { updates, userIds },
+      confirmWrite
+    ) {
+      const abortStreaming = req.aborted || res.finished || res.destroyed
+      if (abortStreaming) {
+        // Tell the producer to stop emitting data
+        if (confirmWrite) confirmWrite(new Error('stop'))
+        return
+      }
+      const hasStartedStreamingResponse = res.headersSent
+      if (err) {
+        logger.error({ project_id, err }, 'export failed')
+        if (!hasStartedStreamingResponse) {
+          // Generate a nice 500
+          return next(err)
+        } else {
+          // Stop streaming
+          return res.destroy()
+        }
+      }
+      // Compose the response incrementally
+      const isFirstWrite = !hasStartedStreamingResponse
+      const isLastWrite = updates.length === 0
+      if (isFirstWrite) {
+        // The first write will emit the 200 status, headers and start of the
+        //  response payload (open array)
+        res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')
+        res.setHeader('Trailer', 'X-User-Ids')
+        res.writeHead(200)
+        res.write('[')
+      }
+      if (!isFirstWrite && !isLastWrite) {
+        // Starting from the 2nd non-empty write, emit a continuing comma.
+        // write 1: [updates1
+        // write 2: ,updates2
+        // write 3: ,updates3
+        // write N: ]
+        res.write(',')
+      }
+
+      // Every write will emit a blob onto the response stream:
+      // '[update1,update2,...]'
+      //   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+      res.write(JSON.stringify(updates).slice(1, -1), confirmWrite)
+
+      if (isLastWrite) {
+        // The last write will have no updates and will finish the response
+        //  payload (close array) and emit the userIds as trailer.
+        res.addTrailers({ 'X-User-Ids': JSON.stringify(userIds) })
+        res.end(']')
+      }
+    })
+  },
+
   restore(req, res, next) {
     if (next == null) {
       next = function (error) {}
diff --git a/services/track-changes/app/js/UpdatesManager.js b/services/track-changes/app/js/UpdatesManager.js
index 811e9ba1ca..7890208788 100644
--- a/services/track-changes/app/js/UpdatesManager.js
+++ b/services/track-changes/app/js/UpdatesManager.js
@@ -631,6 +631,57 @@ module.exports = UpdatesManager = {
     )
   },
 
+  exportProject(projectId, consumer) {
+    // Flush anything before collecting updates.
+    UpdatesManager.processUncompressedUpdatesForProject(projectId, (err) => {
+      if (err) return consumer(err)
+
+      // Fetch all the packs.
+      const before = undefined
+      PackManager.makeProjectIterator(projectId, before, (err, iterator) => {
+        if (err) return consumer(err)
+
+        const accumulatedUserIds = new Set()
+
+        async.whilst(
+          () => !iterator.done(),
+
+          (cb) =>
+            iterator.next((err, updatesFromASinglePack) => {
+              if (err) return cb(err)
+
+              if (updatesFromASinglePack.length === 0) {
+                // This should not happen when `iterator.done() == false`.
+                // Emitting an empty array would signal the consumer the final
+                //  call.
+                return cb()
+              }
+              updatesFromASinglePack.forEach((update) => {
+                accumulatedUserIds.add(
+                  // Super defensive access on update details.
+                  String(update && update.meta && update.meta.user_id)
+                )
+              })
+              // Emit updates and wait for the consumer.
+              consumer(null, { updates: updatesFromASinglePack }, cb)
+            }),
+
+          (err) => {
+            if (err) return consumer(err)
+
+            // Adding undefined can happen for broken updates.
+            accumulatedUserIds.delete('undefined')
+
+            consumer(null, {
+              updates: [],
+              userIds: Array.from(accumulatedUserIds).sort()
+            })
+          }
+        )
+      })
+    })
+  },
+
   fetchUserInfo(users, callback) {
     if (callback == null) {
       callback = function (error, fetchedUserInfo) {}
diff --git a/services/track-changes/test/acceptance/js/ArchivingUpdatesTests.js b/services/track-changes/test/acceptance/js/ArchivingUpdatesTests.js
index 5df0844409..bb1024389c 100644
--- a/services/track-changes/test/acceptance/js/ArchivingUpdatesTests.js
+++ b/services/track-changes/test/acceptance/js/ArchivingUpdatesTests.js
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ describe('Archiving updates', function () {
     this.now = Date.now()
     this.to = this.now
     this.user_id = ObjectId().toString()
+    this.user_id_2 = ObjectId().toString()
     this.doc_id = ObjectId().toString()
     this.project_id = ObjectId().toString()
 
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ describe('Archiving updates', function () {
         op: [{ i: 'b', p: 0 }],
         meta: {
           ts: this.now + (i - 2048) * this.hours + 10 * this.minutes,
-          user_id: this.user_id
+          user_id: this.user_id_2
         },
         v: 2 * i + 2
       })
@@ -141,6 +142,56 @@ describe('Archiving updates', function () {
     )
   })
 
+  function testExportFeature() {
+    describe('exporting the project', function () {
+      before('fetch export', function (done) {
+        TrackChangesClient.exportProject(
+          this.project_id,
+          (error, updates, userIds) => {
+            if (error) {
+              return done(error)
+            }
+            this.exportedUpdates = updates
+            this.exportedUserIds = userIds
+            done()
+          }
+        )
+      })
+
+      it('should include all the imported updates, with ids, sorted by timestamp', function () {
+        // Add a safe guard for an empty array matching an empty export.
+        expect(this.updates).to.have.length(1024 + 22)
+
+        const expectedExportedUpdates = this.updates
+          .slice()
+          .reverse()
+          .map((update) => {
+            // clone object, updates are created once in before handler
+            const exportedUpdate = Object.assign({}, update)
+            exportedUpdate.meta = Object.assign({}, update.meta)
+
+            exportedUpdate.doc_id = this.doc_id
+            exportedUpdate.project_id = this.project_id
+
+            // This is for merged updates, which does not apply here.
+            exportedUpdate.meta.start_ts = exportedUpdate.meta.end_ts =
+              exportedUpdate.meta.ts
+            delete exportedUpdate.meta.ts
+            return exportedUpdate
+          })
+        expect(this.exportedUpdates).to.deep.equal(expectedExportedUpdates)
+        expect(this.exportedUserIds).to.deep.equal([
+          this.user_id,
+          this.user_id_2
+        ])
+      })
+    })
+  }
+
+  describe("before archiving a doc's updates", function () {
+    testExportFeature()
+  })
+
   describe("archiving a doc's updates", function () {
     before(function (done) {
       TrackChangesClient.pushDocHistory(
@@ -219,7 +270,7 @@ describe('Archiving updates', function () {
       )
     })
 
-    return it('should store 1024 doc changes in S3 in one pack', function (done) {
+    it('should store 1024 doc changes in S3 in one pack', function (done) {
       return db.docHistoryIndex.findOne(
         { _id: ObjectId(this.doc_id) },
         (error, index) => {
@@ -240,6 +291,8 @@ describe('Archiving updates', function () {
         }
       )
     })
+
+    testExportFeature()
   })
 
   return describe("unarchiving a doc's updates", function () {
diff --git a/services/track-changes/test/acceptance/js/ExportProjectTests.js b/services/track-changes/test/acceptance/js/ExportProjectTests.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b6ca106a60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/track-changes/test/acceptance/js/ExportProjectTests.js
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+const { expect } = require('chai')
+const { ObjectId } = require('../../../app/js/mongodb')
+
+const TrackChangesApp = require('./helpers/TrackChangesApp')
+const TrackChangesClient = require('./helpers/TrackChangesClient')
+
+describe('ExportProject', function () {
+  before('start app', function (done) {
+    TrackChangesApp.ensureRunning(done)
+  })
+
+  describe('when there are no updates', function () {
+    before('fetch export', function (done) {
+      TrackChangesClient.exportProject(
+        ObjectId(),
+        (error, updates, userIds) => {
+          if (error) {
+            return done(error)
+          }
+          this.exportedUpdates = updates
+          this.exportedUserIds = userIds
+          done()
+        }
+      )
+    })
+
+    it('should export an empty array', function () {
+      expect(this.exportedUpdates).to.deep.equal([])
+      expect(this.exportedUserIds).to.deep.equal([])
+    })
+  })
+
+  // see ArchivingUpdatesTests for tests with data in mongo/s3
+})
diff --git a/services/track-changes/test/acceptance/js/helpers/TrackChangesClient.js b/services/track-changes/test/acceptance/js/helpers/TrackChangesClient.js
index 9e8e05bbc4..f20884448d 100644
--- a/services/track-changes/test/acceptance/js/helpers/TrackChangesClient.js
+++ b/services/track-changes/test/acceptance/js/helpers/TrackChangesClient.js
@@ -165,6 +165,17 @@ module.exports = TrackChangesClient = {
     )
   },
 
+  exportProject(project_id, callback) {
+    request.get(
+      { url: `http://localhost:3015/project/${project_id}/export`, json: true },
+      (error, response, updates) => {
+        if (error) return callback(error)
+        response.statusCode.should.equal(200)
+        callback(null, updates, JSON.parse(response.trailers['x-user-ids']))
+      }
+    )
+  },
+
   restoreDoc(project_id, doc_id, version, user_id, callback) {
     if (callback == null) {
       callback = function (error) {}