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companion
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6 years ago
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Does Paper still support export as Markdown?

I'm trying to use the Dropbox API to access Paper documents as markdown. I have a connected app and a user with the new version of Paper (paper_as_files: enabled). I've switched from docs/download to...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    6 years ago

    No, unfortunately /2/files/export doesn't support exporting as Markdown, nor is there another way do that in a 'paper_as_files' account, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. 

    Update: the /2/files/export endpoint now supports exporting .paper files as Markdown.

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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! I'll send this along as well.

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bram_l
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

+1

I'm suprised this feature has dissapeared without any mentioning of it in the Paper Migration Guide. For us the Markdown export is an essential feature that would prevent us from using the 'paper_as_files' account in our current API integration.

Markdown is supported by wide a range of tools and libraries, thanks to its simplicity and well defined syntax. Therefor it seems much more appropriate as an export format for the API compared to HTML. Also converting Markdown to HTML (and applying styles) is very straight forward, the other way around not so much.

Hopefully this feature can be (re)implemented in the near future!

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    6 years ago

    bram_l Thanks for the additional feedback! I'll pass this along as well.

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